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Born What Way?
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, which launches at Harvard today, manages to be queer without being gay.
Swapping Politics for Science on Drug Policy
President Obama has lifted the twenty-year ban on federal funding of needle exchanges. But if he wants to promote public health–over politics–on substance abuse, there are plenty of other bold steps his administration should take.
Rabbinical Student Heads Up the Fight For Gay Marriage in New Jersey
Rabbinical student Steven Goldstein is the founder, chair and CEO of Garden State Equality, the primary advocacy group now pushing for marriage for gay men and lesbians in New Jersey.
Uncertain Territory: Conservative Judaism’s Pioneering Gay Rabbinical Students Tread Carefully In Israel
When the first openly gay rabbinic students came through the doors of Conservative Judaism’s Jewish Theological Seminary in 2007, there remained in the back of everyone’s mind one sensitive, still-unresolved issue: What would happen when they went to Israel?
25 Rabbis Walk Into a Room
The Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards queers the synagogue by giving nod to gay rabbis and commitment ceremonies.
Women’s Groups Split Over Texas Governor’s Vaccination Plan
In a surprise move, certain pro-choice women’s organizations are joining Christian conservatives in criticizing the governor of Texas for requiring sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against HPV.
GOP’s Page Scandal Could Boost Dem Candidate in South Florida
The scandal over a disgraced Republican’s sexually suggestive emails to teenage congressional pages could end up swinging at least one key Florida race in the fight for the House of Representatives.
Allen’s Allies Fight Back
Accusations of antisemitism in the 2006 Virginia Senate race between George Allen and James Webb
Chafee Survives Challenge
The pro-Israel lobby plays an unexpected role in the 2006 Rhode Island GOP Senate primary.
One Way to Stop Genocide
Brown divests from companies supporting the Sudanese government, and Providence follows suit.