Ohio Democratic state legislators have called on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rob Portman to sever his ties with COAST, a Cincinnati anti-tax group. On its website, COAST (Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes) referred to lawmakers in the General Assembly as “Nazis.”

44 | House votes to refer measure calling for further investigation to ethics committee.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was notified in October by then-Rep. Eric Massa's top aide of concerns about the New York Democrat's behavior, two congressional sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday night.

House speaker's office notified in Oct. by then-Rep. Eric Massa's top aide of concerns about behavior.

Ohio State's Jim Tressel ripped up a stereotype recently. A football coach who wears sweater vests and describes his job as a ministry doesn't necessarily endorse the longstanding code of silence for gay athletes. In an interview with Outlook Columbus...

Ohio State's Jim Tressel ripped up a stereotype recently. A football coach who wears sweater vests and describes his job as a ministry doesn't necessarily endorse the longstanding code of silence for gay athletes. In an interview with Outlook Columbus...

A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event.

Father Robert Carter, an out gay Jesuit Catholic priest who, in the early 1970s, co-founded both the National Gay Task Force (now NGLTF) and the New York chapter of Dignity, a gay Catholics group, died of a neurological illness February 22 at his residence at Fordham University in the Bronx.

The two major organizations that hold LGBT sports competitions are considering a merger, according to Outsports.

Regional telephone company Cincinnati Bell Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to publicly offer $400 million worth of senior subordinated notes due in 2018. The company said it will use any proceeds with existing cash to redeem $375 million worth of... Cincinnati Bell - United States - Business - Ohio - Telephone company

Ohio Democratic state legislators have called on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rob Portman to sever his ties with COAST, a Cincinnati anti-tax group. On its website, COAST (Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes) referred to lawmakers in the General Assembly as “Nazis.”

My first experience with an anti-gay protest happened in 2003 in New York at the opening of The Harvey Milk High School.Anti-gay minister Fred Phelps had sent a contingency of about a half dozen men, women and two children, obviously courted by the limo they arrived in and the promise of a luxury weekend in Manhattan, to demonstrate at the opening of a high school for LGBT students.The protestors weren't your typical political crowd of the time. Lewd, handmade signs—some misspelled—sang more town hall than Capital Hill. They had been recruited for a cause. They believed it was wrong to open a publicly-funded high school for LGBT kids. And by our Constitution, they had a right to say so. To my glee, the New York City Sanitation Department also had a right to muffle the protestors with the engines of two conspicuous dump trucks nearby.First Amendment rights, anti-gay or not, one must question the appropriateness of calling a 13-year-old transgender freshman a fag on her first day of school (ironically, one of the reason why the alternative learning space was opened in the first place). The question of appropriateness under the First Amendment is one the Supreme Court will consider in its new term in October. One of the issues before them will be the legality of anti-gay protests at military funerals.The Court has said it will hear the appeal of a Maryland man who won and then had reversed a $10 million verdict against Phelps-led Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan, a congregation that conducts anti-gay demonstrations at military funerals.Phelp's organization believes military deaths are the country's punishment for its tolerance of homosexuality. You may remember, Phelp also marked Katrina as God's punishment for gays. Since 1991, Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church have organized nearly 43,000 protests. "I had one chance to bury my son, and they took the dignity away from it," Albert Snyder, the father of late Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, testified after challenging Westboro's right to protest at his son's 2006 funeral. I think back to the opening of Harvey Milk. Those kids too deserved dignity as they entered a safe space. We all have a right to free speech, but when does the cause become, as a federal appeals court said of the Westboro protest, "utterly distasteful"?The anti-gay right to protest originally appeared on About.com Gay Life on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 13:53:43.Permalink | Comment | Email this

Tonight, The New York Times GLBT & Allies Affinity Group will host a special discussion with David Boies and Theodore Olson, lead co-counsels in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, about their unprecedented federal challenge to California's Proposition 8. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times will moderate the one-hour event. Follow on Twitter /abettergaylifeUnlikely Allies: David Boies and Theodore Olson at The New York Times originally appeared on About.com Gay Life on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 12:09:49.Permalink | Comment | Email this

OTTAWA -- Politicians should first work in the business world to better understand budgets, a Republican candidate for governor told the party faithful in Putnam County on Tuesday.

As a football coach, Ohio State's Jim Tressel has been accused of being boring, conservative ... not very exciting. His views on life have to be the same, right?

NEW YORK, March 10 (UPI) -- Joe Rogan's stand-up act at the Southern Theater in Columbus, Ohio, was taped and is to be released on CD and DVD, Comedy Central Records said.

The U.S. Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages, such as “Thank God for dead soldiers.”The court agreed Monday, March 8, to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment.

WASHINGTON - The time has come to change a policy that imposes a lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977, 18 senators said Thursday.

The U.S. Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages. The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters’ message is protected by the First Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages, such as “Thank God for dead soldiers.”The court agreed Monday, March 8, to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment.