“I have always hated anybody who is not tolerant of [the gay community]. Now I am in the very fortunate position where I can actually help.”
That’s Harry Potter/Equus star Daniel Radcliffe to the Associated Press, which reports the actor just filmed a PSA for The Trevor Project. The organization focuses on suicide prevention efforts among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth.
More at PopEater.
Leave it to our favorite homophobe, Maggie Gallagher, to offer the dumbest reaction to a wise decision about equal rights. (more…)
Based on his experience in the Israel Defense Forces, Atlantic magazine national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg has a message for military officers trying to cast doubt on a DADT repeal: Gay people can fight like hell. (more…)
Are you comfortable being out at work? Good, because two-thirds of LGBT workers hear anti-gay comments and jokes at the office “at least once in a while”, according to a new survey from the Human Rights Campaign. (more…)
It’s about time. A new political action committee is seeking to unseat NY state legislators who voted against the marriage-equality bill last year.
FightBackNY was set up and funded by a group of donors to LGBT causes, most notably philanthropist Tim Gill of Denver (above).
More at GayPolitics.com.
For Republicans, this represents progress, we think:
Weird homophobe Ryan Sorba, whose thoughtful contribution to the political dialogue is a book called The Gay Gene Hoax, was booed off the stage at a conservative event after condemning homosexuality from the podium.
More at CBSNews.
Just when we thought a little sun might peek through the clouds – Repeal DADT! Marriage rights in Mexico! – headlines like today’s bring us crashing back to earth. (more…)
The invaluable Tara Siegel Bernard, who spoke to OP in December, offers a must-read rundown of tax tips for same-sex couples in her NYTimes.com “Bucks” column this week.
Fun fact: Over the course of their lifetimes, same-sex couples could spend around $12,300 more on tax preparation fees than their heterosexual counterparts, Siegel writes.
