Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll might be a woman, but she has much bigger "huevos" than I do. Did Carroll really say late last week that she’s way too fine to be a lesbian? Well, let’s not put words in the woman’s mouth. Let’s go to the news reports, shall we? According […]
A new study measured the accuracy of using ‘Gaydar’ to determine if someone is straight or gay. Researchers at the University of Washington surveyed 129 students who reviewed pictures of men and women of both sexual orientations. Each picture was shown for 50 milliseconds. Students were asked to use a person’s facial features such as […]
Hip-Hop is moving in a progressive direction. Mogul Jay-Z, has come out in support of President Obama’s gay marriage stance. While in Philadelphia to announce plans for a two-day music festival, CNN’s Poppy Harlow interviewed the Brooklyn emcee where he shared his thoughts on same-sex marriage saying, “I’ve always thought of it as something that […]
Like many black Americans, Dorsey Jackson does not believe in gay marriage, but he wasn’t disillusioned when Barack Obama became the first president to support it. The windows of his suburban Philadelphia barbershop still display an “Obama 2012” placard and another that reads “We’ve Got His Back.” If Obama needs to endorse same-sex marriage to […]
Mitt Romney apologized Thursday to classmates he may have offended by “hijinks and pranks during high school” and insisted he didn’t know that some were gay. The Republican presidential candidate issued the apology during a hastily arranged radio interview after The Washington Post reported Thursday that he had held down classmate John Lauber and cut […]
A Southern Baptist leader has apologized to President Barack Obama and other black leaders for saying they were exploiting Trayvon Martin’s death for political gain. Richard Land said Wednesday he impugned the motives of Obama and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, all of whom have shown support and sympathy for Martin’s family. Land […]
ABC’s Robin Roberts scored big with her recent interview with President Barack Obama on his evolutionary stance on gay marriage. Over the past few days, America has been at the edge of its seat waiting for him to come out, so to speak. He told the nation he now personally defends the right for same […]
Public opinion about gay marriage has changed so rapidly that President Barack Obama’s historic embrace of it may pose as many political risks to Republicans as to the president and his fellow Democrats. The president’s dramatic shift on the issue – a watershed moment in U.S. politics, even if many people felt it was inevitable […]
Republican Mitt Romney is trying to shift his campaign’s focus back to the sluggish economic recovery and will use a commencement speech at an evangelical university to cast strong families as central to a strong economy. “Although opportunities seem scarce in this economy, it is not for nothing that you have spent this time preparing. […]
Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for “stupid” high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate’s recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama’s embrace […]
President Barack Obama has become the first U.S. president to openly support full rights for gay couples, including same-sex marriage. The president’s remarks during an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts took many pundits by surprise, not because he supported same-sex marriage, but because his endorsement was direct rather than tacit. Some political observers had predicted […]
Carolina has long prided itself on its moderate politics dating to the civil rights era, as well as its place as a New South leader and a hub for high-tech, banking and higher education. Even though the state backed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008, it has maintained a socially conservative streak. North Carolina […]
