Decades ago, the organized “religious right” was politically very powerful. Such organizations as The Moral Majority and The Family Research Council formed vital parts of the “conservative movement.” During the Reagan years these organizations galvanized a very substantial segment of the Republican electoral coalition. While the religious right seems to have lost the intellectual coherence…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck In 1978, gay rights activist Gilbert Baker sewed a flag of rainbow stripes in an effort to unite the gay and lesbian community under a symbol of positivity and love. It originally contained two extra colors than its modern iteration: pink and turquoise. The reason? In…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Women’s March: What Does It Accomplish? by Avens O’Brien On Saturday, in my city of Los Angeles, approximately 750,000 people gathered in the “Women’s March” rally in solidarity with other marches across the country and world, including cities like Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Detroit, NYC, and Philadelphia,…
Hillary Clinton Still Does not Support the LGBT community By Brittni Kates Follow her on Twitter, Like her on Facebook WikiLeaks has been releasing thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton and many of them let the American public know how she really feels towards them. The LGBT community is definitely one of those groups of…
by Josh Guckert Governors Gary Johnson and William Weld likely represent the most pro-gay rights ticket in American history. This is in large part due to their record. While the Democratic Party positions itself as a defender of LGBTQ Americans, the Libertarian Party and its ticket has done so for much longer. For example, neither Hillary…
Amidst the recent tragedy in Orlando, where one individual went on a shooting spree, claiming 49 lives and wounding countless others, comes a seemingly unusual source of compassion. Ask most Americans which fast food chain comes to mind when the phrase “anti-gay” is uttered, and a common response would be Chick-Fil-A. Chick-Fil-A became a hotbed…
By Amber Randall A LGBTQ group dedicated to the legal and safe use of firearms for the LGBTQ community put out a press release Sunday that urged people to focus on the Orlando shooter’s heinous actions and not on guns as the problem. Oman Mir Seddique Mateen killed 49 people in a shooting at a gay…
You’ll hear the left scream about cakes that won’t be baked or bathrooms that won’t be opened to members of our community, but when it comes to radical Islam and the threat it poses to free Western Society you don’t hear their outrage. That’s because it isn’t there. They have sacrificed their sanity on the…
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” By Casey Bennett [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t was the year 1776 when American colonists declared independence from Britain and set the stage for war with one…
Michael Bastasch The showing of a film celebrating the gay activist movement has been delayed and possibly canceled following severe protests from, ironically, gay rights activists who say the film somehow endangers their lives. “Stonewall,” directed by openly-gay director Roland Emmerich, portrays the events of the 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City, where NYPD clashed with…