The GOP embrace of homophobia is more than simply a sop to the far right.

In his 1997 song "Highlands," Bob Dylan reports a conversation between
himself and a waitress. "She says, You don't read women authors, do
you?/...

Bayard Rustin forged a remarkable career as a social activist. Briefly a
member of the Young Communist League, he repudiated communism but
remained a socialist throughout his life.

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In America, it is a civil institution, not a religious one.

The Supreme Court's sweeping June 26 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas
came almost seventeen years to the day after one of the darkest moments
in the history of the gay movement.

During the early years of the civil rights revolution, Theodore Bilbo,
the ferocious segregationist senator from Mississippi, published a book
titled Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongreli

So it looks like Rick Santorum won't go the way of Trent Lott.

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.

A lonely Cracker Barrel restaurant stands alongside the highway that
runs near my house.