Would MLK have evolved on gay rights?
If the civil rights leader and activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive today, how would he feel about gay rights and marriage equality?...
DOMA declared unconstitutional by federal court
BOSTON (AP) - A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court...
Pastor challenges fellow black clergy on marriage equality
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois wrote a letter to a fellow black clergy who took issue with President Obama's support of gay marriage...
Does 'down low' culture breed homophobia?
OPINION - Homophobia in the black community is an ugly reality and black women, as members of that community, we must acknowledge and own our part in that...
Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election...
Black youth need a voice in gay politics
OPINION - In the double consciousness of blackness and gayness, we are senselessly losing our youth...
Does the NAACP gay resolution matter?
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP's own resolution on the matter gave a respectful nod to the black church, stating 'we strongly affirm the religious freedoms of all people as protected by the First Amendment'...
Jealous: NAACP gay marriage stance a 'game changer'
BALTIMORE (AP) - NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group's resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support marriage equality...
NAACP backs same-sex marriage
MIAMI (AP) - The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts 'to codify discrimination or hatred into the law'...
The roots of homophobia in black America
OPINION - While the African-Americans and LGBT communities have each experienced a legacy of oppression and a struggle for equality that shares some similarities, resentment has existed between the two groups...
