Are you gay or lesbian and living in the South? Then CNN Radio wants to hear from you as it looks at the topic more closely leading up to the Supreme Court cases involving marriage equality, one on Prop 8 and the other on DOMA.
From the CNN Radio website:
Rabbi Joshua Lesser of Atlanta's Congregation Bet Haverim was a guest on CNN to talk about ways to include faith-based resolutions as we ring in 2013 tonight.
Lesser, who is openly gay (and a proud gym enthusiast), praises working on physical fitness as a resolution. But faith is also something we can work on, he said.
"Our bodies and minds and our spirits are all connected and we need to attend to them and the New Year is a great time to check in," he said.
A number of LGBT bloggers expressed dismay Tuesday night that no question about same-sex marriage was posed during the first two presidential debates or in the only vice presidential debate.
But at a most unexpected moment during the Oct. 16 debate, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney stumbled into an awkward riff about the importance of two parents being married before having children.
That set off a flurry of reaction among various LGBT bloggers who were posting their reactions to the debate live on Twitter.
If there is one region of the country that's still struggling to come to terms with the idea of same-sex marriage, it's the South.
According to the results of a recent opinion poll conducted by CNN and research firm ORC International, the South is the only region of the country where the majority say same-sex couples should not be allowed to marry.
The Northeast and Western regions of the country overwhelmingly support marriage equality. In the Midwest, a slim majority of those polled favor granting marriage rights to same-sex couples, but in the South, some 52 percent of respondents oppose gay marriage while only 44 percent support it, by far the lowest level of support in the country.
Political pundit and “real bruh” Roland Martin will meet with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Martin has been under fire for his choice of words on the social networking site Twitter during last weekend's Super Bowl.
Martin, criticizing an H&M ad featuring near-nude soccer star David Beckham, wrote, “Ain't no real bruhs going to H&M to buy some damn David Beckham underwear! #superbowl” on the micro-messaging site.
“If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl” he added.
It didn't take long before GLAAD swooped in, calling out the CNN contributor for inciting violence against gay men. Martin said he was taking a jab at soccer, the most un-bruh sport, apparently, not gay men.
Philip Rafshoon, who owned Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse for 18 years before it went out of business on Jan. 26 and was forced to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, writes in a blog on CNN today that, "Our community must learn the value of supporting our own LGBT resources."
In his column, Rafshoon also writes of Outwrite's importance in LGBT Atlanta and Georgia: