A transgender man, legally male and legally married to a woman, is carrying the couple’s baby. To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy …

Hillary Clinton says that wouldn’t have stayed in Rev. Wright’s congregation. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made. “He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose …

Bullies don’t care if you’re actually gay. In ninth grade, a couple of the same boys started a Facebook page called “Every One That Hates Billy Wolfe.” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose: “There is no reason anyone should like billy he’s a little bitch. …

Via the ACLU: The American Civil Liberties Union sent a demand letter to H&R Block today demanding that it change its online tax preparation system to accommodate gay couples in Connecticut with civil unions. The ACLU is representing a couple with a civil union who attempted to file their taxes on the company’s website through their online service, TaxCut Online, …

“I nearly just decided not to ever go back to America and just stay here and say ‘let them froth around in their own mess,’ but I went to Manchester Pride and Sir Ian McKellen was the Marshal … I’m not very fluffy with these things and I’m quite cynical. “However, the sight of him waving and looking at the …

Gay students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are upset with the logo of a local burger joint. The Stonewall Democrats, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender caucus of the University’s College Democrats chapter, has taken offense with the restaurant’s logo and recently began circulating a petition to sway the owners to change the logo. LSA senior Kolby …

Literally. A nutjob running for Larry Craig’s seat has legally changed his name to Pro-Life Richardson. A 66-year-old Idaho strawberry farmer, formerly known after a previous name change as Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, is now, simply, “Pro-Life.” “I think it’s just and I think it’s proper to have Pro-Life on the ballot,” Pro-Life told the Idaho Press-Tribune. “If I save one …

Via PageOneQ: Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), speaking to rally attendees in Medford, Oregon on Saturday, took issue with how recent political campaigns have used wedge issues to divide the electorate, but have ultimately done little to make a real difference, especially when there are more important things to worry about. “I mean, think about what these last few election cycles …

On Sunday, Sally Kern appeared on a local Oklahoma political chat show to defend her remarks, appearing opposite openly gay pastor Scott Jones. This clip quickly devolves in the usual interpretations of Leviticus, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Santa Christ, but Kern takes some good hits from the panelists. Here’s part two of the show. (Via – Pam’s House Blend.)

Avenue Q creator Jeff Whitty’s long-running battle with Jay Leno over the Tonight Show host’s habit of making homophobic jokes has gone into overdrive. Read the piece, it’s awesome.

“In politics, memory should always match the videotape.”

Speaking to college reporters, Bill Clinton defended the Defense of Marriage Act as a “reasonable compromise” for the political climate of its time and accused Melissa Etheridge of “rewriting history” when she said that his administration “threw gays under the bus” once his election was achieved. Clinton also seems to predict that gays will suffer greater harassment if states are …

Florida Governor Charlie Crist is trotting around a new female, hoping to fell those pesky gay rumors as he continues to angle to be McCain’s running mate. Charlie is successful, good looking, charming, single. He lives in a mansion and drives a Mustang convertible. But “Charlie” just so happens to be Charlie Crist, 51-year-old bachelor governor of Florida. And lately …

Dugout, Sunday, 7pm Bear 1: So I was at the Eagle the other night and there were these two FTMs licking each others armpits right in the middle of the bar. What has happened to this city? Where is the glamor?? Bear 2: Honey, that IS glamor.

Via Politico: Rep. Barney Frank will soon introduce legislation to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, the Massachusetts Democrat said during an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” Frank offered no details on his legislation, and it’s not at all clear that he could ever get it to the House floor for a vote. A Frank aide was unaware …

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

“I was always scared that my mom and dad would find out and wouldn’t like me, and my brothers wouldn’t like me. I was petrified, because I didn’t want anyone to find out. And I would try to be the toughest person around. That way, no one would suspect, no one would ever say it, no one would think it.” …

“Sally Kern’s comments hit me like a punch to the gut. I was enormously saddened that someone—anyone, really, but especially an elected official—could say such mean things about other human beings. We have so much to deal with already—the incessant dreary news about war, about the economy, about shocking crimes. I’m amazed that someone like Sally Kern found the time …

Sen. Larry Craig is retiring. For real real. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), encumbered by a scandal since last summer, did not file for reelection by his state’s deadline Friday, keeping a promise he made and officially marking the end of his congressional career. Craig’s political future has been in doubt since his arrest and guilty plea on disorderly conduct charges filed …