In this show the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz and Andy Thayer discuss the significance and real politic that went into Illinois’s new civil unions legislation. On a related note, they discuss the Obama administration’s cynical, go-slow approach to dismantling …
Combating “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and Winning Civil Unions Read more »
The Gay Liberation Network’s Brent Holman-Gomez and Andy Thayer discuss how the Democrats got the drubbing they richly deserved. In betraying their promises of “change” to their supporters in the Black, Latino, LGBT, and anti-war activist communities, they got walloped …
The 2010 Drubbing of the Democrats Read more »
Americans For ‘Truth’ About Homosexuality (AFTAH) is a suburban-Chicago based organization which uses fake “studies” of gay people to rationalize why LGBT should not have legal equality. Its dishonesty in this endeavor is so persistent that it has been designated …
Who Is “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality?” Read more »
La Fiesta restaurant in south suburban Alsip did its level best to deny service to a local gay couple, Frankie Nielsen and Danny Hankes. What Frankie and Danny found out was that the enforcement provisions of Cook County and Illinois …
Kissing-In for Equal Rights in Cook County Read more »
Harvey Milk was one of the most prominent gay activists in history, successful in leading the fight to defeat an anti-gay ballot initiative in California three decades before Proposition 8. Tragically he was gunned down by an anti-gay assassin in …
Celebrating Harvey Milk Read more »
Maine was the latest in dozens of referendum defeats for the LGBT community. But it was eminently winnable. Unlike in many other campaigns, our side had a decisive 2-1 fundraising advantage. The examples of marriage equality not leading to the …
Analyzing the Defeat in Maine Read more »
How did the modern gay political movement emerge onto the public stage after decades of repression? What can we learn from the early modern gay movement of the early 1970s? On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in New …
Learning the Lessons of the Stonewall Rebellion Read more »
Jamie Moran, a Masters candidate in Women & Gender Studies, leads a discussion of the political and social issues that Transgender people face, including basic living issues like laws relating to gender, public restroom use, to cost and available of …
Transgender Issues and Rights Read more »
Camilla Taylor, senior staff attorney for the Midwest Office of Lambda Legal, is our guest as she discusses the anti-equal marriage rights “Proposition 8” ballot proposition in California, shortly after the oral arguments before that state’s Supreme Court aimed at …
Prop 8 & the Upcoming California Supreme Court Decision Read more »
Uploaded on Jan 19, 2008 Part 6 of 7: 9th Annual Matthew Shepard March and Rally for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Freedom October 6, 2007 Chicago, Illinois. “From Russia With Pride” This segment features guest speaker Russian gay activist …
Matthew Shepard March 2007 “From Russia With Pride” (6/7) Read more »
