gay equality

[The video above is Tony Strickland speaking at College of the Canyons in Los Angeles County, after being questioned by Lee Rogers for living outside of the district in Ventura Country and running for the primarily Ventura County district even 4 months ago, forgets which district he's running in.]Tuesday night the College of the Canyons in Valencia hosted a debate for the CA-25 primary congressional candidates running to replace Buck McKeon, not just frontrunner Lee Rogers (D) and his two main GOP opponents, right-wing extremists Steve Knight from Palmdale and Tony Strickland, a carpetbagge

It's not exactly news-- at least not to anyone who reads DWT-- but Friday, President Obama accused the Republicans of undermining democracy by pushing disenfranchisement legislation in several states where they have managed to win control.

Rep Carol Shea-Porter (D) and Dan Innis (R)So far this year, Blue America has only backed two incumbents on a special page designed for true-blue progressives who need electoral help this cycle. Each of them is an independent-minded and stalwart fighter for equality and for a shining progressive vision of America.

In 2009, Nanci Griffith put out an album, The Loving Kind, inspired by the death of Mildred Loving the year before. Nanci and Mildred both saw the clear relationship between the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v Virginia-- which struck down the miscegenation laws that remained in the South to prohibit marriages of whites and blacks-- to the struggle for LGBT marriage equality.

I'm not sure if the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been officially designated a hate group, but-- despite their claims that their only interest is preventing same-sex marriage-- their president, Brian Brown was in Moscow in June testifying in the Duna against gay adoption in "countries that allow gay people to marry." Hate groups like NOM have been working in other countries to

LGBT activists in Ohio were shocked when they heard Steve Israel was recruiting virulent homophobe Jennifer Garrison to run for Congress. Israel is now pressuring pro-equality Democrats in Congress-- including gay members-- to contribute money to Garrison's campaign. She isn't a garden variety anti-gay politician. She built her entire political career on intense homophobia.

If you're not moved-- probably profoundly-- by the song and video above, it's probably a waste of time to read the rest of this post. That's the self-made, independent ($7,000) video of "All American Boy" by Lemont, Illinois-born country singer, sometimes called the first out male country star, Steve Grand. Steve's 23 years old and the video hit YouTube last July… and exploded. It's not the kind of song country music radio would ever play. Not ever. Not anywhere. How do I know?

Dick Cheney with a blond wig-- and rabiesI've been savoring every moment of Barton Gellman's book on how Cheney took over the Bush presidency, Angler and I recommend it highly. (You can buy at at the link in the last sentence, which goes right to the DWT Book Store.

Sad, pathetic person

Someone's got to have the best voting record in Congress, might as well be Mark!Wednesday I got an e-mail from the Gay And Lesbian Victory Fund with the subject line "What a Night!" And what a night it was for them!