David Edwards and Stephen Webster

Several days ago, RAW STORY reported on a proposed law in Uganda that would execute homosexuals thought to be HIV positive, or for repeat “offenses.” According to U.S. author and Harper’s contributing editor Jeff Sharlet, a secretive group of American politicians are supporting the Ugandan lawmakers who are leading the charge to see the draconian [...]

Reacting to the Governor of Rhode Island’s decision to veto a bill that would have allowed gays to claim the bodies of their loved ones should they die, Colbert turned up the satire.
He began by quoting Governor Donald L. Carcieri, who said the legislation was “a disturbing trend… of the incremental erosion of the [...]

Ten-year-old Will Phillips may have just become the new cause célèbre of the gay rights movement.
It all started when he refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a West Fork, Arkansas elementary school.
Speaking to CNN’s John Roberts on Monday, Will said he remained seated four straight days while his classmates repeated the words, “with [...]

Facing the threat of a filibuster by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CN) over the public option remaining in Democrats’ health reform bill, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) does not seem gravely concerned.
Should Lieberman try to prevent the bill from coming to a vote, “there are other ways that we have to proceed,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow [...]

When former U.S. diplomat to Afghanistan Matthew Hoh resigned on Sept. 10, 2009, he did so in a very public manner.
Now freed from the constraints of speaking on behalf of the United States government, he’s taken to the media, spreading his view that America’s involvement in Afghanistan is senseless and must soon end.
“I hit a [...]