02/06/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has offered up a proposal to put an end to dismissals under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, or at least she is reintroducing the idea. Under her plan, an amendment would be offered to... (Continue reading)
02/04/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “Next thing you know, they’ll be freebasing spinach.” Last night, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart took on the Senate’s hearings regarding Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Taking on Senator John McCain’s flip on the subject of hearing from... (Continue reading)
02/03/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire There are political slogans that work. There are political slogans that fail. There are those political slogans that end up being the butt of jokes for ages to come. “Take Back Illinois” is bound... (Continue reading)
02/01/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Tomorrow, 2 February, the Senate Armed Services Committee will be taking on the issue of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Tonight, on The Rachel Maddow Show, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will be discussing the push to pass the... (Continue reading)
Image via Wikipedia 1/29/2010- by Natasia Langfelder New York City Council Speaker and out lesbian, Christine Quinn, officially threw her support behind Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today. At a speech on the steps of city hall, Quinn called Gillibrand a champion of LGBT... (Continue reading)
01/29/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Representative Ike Skelton believes that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should not be repealed because it would cause too much stress on the military in a time of war. What Skelton never quite answers in his objection... (Continue reading)
01/26/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire President Barack Obama seems to be signaling to Congress that it is time to get the lead out on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It follows on the heels of a certain amount of background noise... (Continue reading)
01/26/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Harold Ford was for marriage equality before he was against it and before he was for it. He was for choice before he was against it and before he was for it again. That is,... (Continue reading)
Image by Freedom To Marry via Flickr 1/20/2010-by Natasia Langfelder David Mixner, a well-known author and longtime activist for LGBT rights, has publicly thrown his support behind Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Mixner posted on his blog that although he was skeptical of... (Continue reading)
01/19/10- by Bridgette P. LaVictoire As the chaos of the Coakley Senate run comes to the final stretch, the finger pointing has already begun. Problems plagued this campaign, including the arrogance of the candidate who ran a more passive campaign... (Continue reading)
01/15/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire President Barack Obama is now facing a very real problem in Massachusetts. He rushed there to try and shore up the flagging likelihood that Martha Coakley would, in fact, succeed Senator Ted Kennedy in the seat... (Continue reading)
12/26/09-by Paula Brooks Bucking the ever increasingly hard lined United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, several major Catholic health groups have backed the Senate’s health-care compromise on abortion. In a statement released last week, Sr. Carol Keehan, president and chief executive office... (Continue reading)
12/22/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It is finally looking as if Kirsten Gillibrand is in the clear for her first run for Senate. Ever since Rudy Giuliani crashed like Eddie “the Eagle” in his his Presidential bid, speculation has swirled around... (Continue reading)
12/17/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire This is what happens when you cave in to one person who is having a snit. Another one comes along and demands that you cave in to him. In this case it is Democrat Ben... (Continue reading)
12/14/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Protesters braved snow, rain, and slush to bring a message to New York State Senator Carl Kruger. Many of the signs called Kruger a closeted bigot. It is part of a wider campaign to picket... (Continue reading)