Thank You MA Businesses and Civic Leaders!
The group, which includes leading bankers, healthcare executives, lawyers, and leaders of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, has purchased an ad in The Boston Globe that says the amendment would...
View ArticleKerry Healey’s contempt for the Bill of Rights — a partial checklist
Endorse a proposal grounded in a false proposition that illegal immigrants are flocking to the polls — and which one court after another has found to be in fact an attempt to disenfranchise minorities...
View ArticleThe State Constitution: Two Amendments I’d Like to See
An amendment proposed by initiative petition, if not decided yea or nay by a vote of the joint session as of its adjournment, may be referred to the next joint session by petition of one forth of all...
View ArticleThe Extirpation of Nigerian Gays
Nigeria apparently likes our constitutional notion that some people are 3/5ths human. The Nigerian Parliament is debating new laws that will make life impossible for gay people. It is already illegal...
View ArticleConstitutional Convention Scheduled for June 14th
This is it, folks. The MA Constitutional Convention will reconvene at 1 pm on June 14th. At that time, it is probable that the anti-equality marriage amendment will be addressed. This amendment...
View ArticleYolanda King Has Passed Away
Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, Jr. & Coretta Scott King, has passed away. She was only 51. Ms. King was an actor, author and producer, but I know her best as a civil rights advocate. My thoughts...
View ArticleThe State Church Movement
In the US, those prominently abusing this tenet are the fundamental Christianist evangelicals and the conservative factions of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches. They have inserted their...
View ArticleMA-05, Sco, Health Care and Casinos
Yesterday’s LeftAhead was a good one, featuring Sco from .08 Acres and a Donkey, who’s as in tune with the 5th District Race as anyone. He’s on at the half-hour mark, but before then you get to hear my...
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Rep. Ellen Story Talks About the LaGuer Case and Also About Today’s...
State Representative Ellen Story went on the radio this yesterday morning to talk about the Ben LaGuer case and also about today's yesterday's Constitutional Convention. Story spoke with WHMP's Tom...
View ArticleThe Fight is Not Over
Sadly, in Massachusetts, we’re just aren’t there yet with full equality. As Chris Mason reminded us all recently, our state’s hate crime laws do not include statutes for gender identity. Therefore, the...
View ArticleProvincetown Must Investigate Use of Force Against Gay Man
The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project 138 Chandler Street, Number Four Boston, Massachusetts 02116 July 17, 2007 Ms. Sharon Lynn Town Manager Provincetown City Hall, 260 Commercial Street Mr....
View ArticleCharges Against Barry Scott Should Be Dropped
The sum total of the press coverage of the violent arrest in Provincetown last Saturday is that a fair investigation is impossible while Warren Tobias remains Acting Police Chief. His indignant...
View ArticleFOIA Request Follows on P-Town Arrest
AVP Launches Inquiry into Controversial Provincetown Arrest The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project today sent a Public Records Act request to Acting Chief Warren Tobias of the Provincetown Police...
View ArticleLOGO Forum Snippets and Snipes
Barack Obama Bizarrely enough, expected listeners to believe that chiding a group of anti-gay Black ministers is all the equality cred he needs. I specifically talked about the degree to which the...
View ArticleWhich way on Fernald?
Ten days ago Judge Tauro ruled that the Romney administration acted illegally in threatening to close the Fernald Center, although the nearly 50 transfers that resulted were declared legal, and...
View ArticleThis Week’s LeftAhead – With MassEquality’s Marc Solomon
Mike and I had Marc Solomon on as a special guest for this week's LeftAhead! podcast. If anyone is curious about what MassEquality is up to, or about the status of glbt rights across the country, you...
View ArticleFernald – how did we get here and where do we go?
As a matter of disclosure, I work for one of the original plaintiff’s (MARC v Dukakis) that were consolidated into the Ricci case. The Arc of Massachusetts (our current moniker) does not have any...
View ArticleCape & Islands DA O’Keefe: May I introduce you to the First Amendment?
The Cape Cod Times reports today that the DA prosecuting DJ Barry Scott in connection with a July 14th party in Provincetown sees nothing wrong in the police action which left him bloodied and bruised....
View ArticleENDA and Trans Rights
But when I speak to friends and colleagues privately, senior members of the gay political/journalistic establishment, and just plain old gay friends around the country (and our own readers), the...
View ArticleAl Gore on the Freedom to Marry
Just caught this on HuffPo. Click the link to see his video statement. Once again, Al Gore gets it exactly right. On January 17, just before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the country’s celebration...
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