Subject: GLBT Issues

• Are you a Phag for Phelps?

  January 21, 2008

• Phelps: ‘Heath Ledger is now in hell’

  January 23, 2008

• Phelps Clan Gets Competitor in Christian Hate

  August 5, 2008

• Nicole Coty of Same But Different documentary dies

  August 22, 2008

• National stand for gay rights will include Kansas City

  November 11, 2008

• Last weekend's protest: "Stop the H8 Rally" for gay rights

  By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Click on photo for a slide show of the protest. The temperature was low, but the energy was high as hundreds of Kansas City residents joined a nationwide protest against California's new gay-marriage ban Saturday afternoon. With colorful signs calling for equal rights for gay and lesbian couples, the crowd was so large that those on the margins could hardly hear local politicians, including Missouri Sen. Jolie Justus, call Proposition 8 an act of discrimination and vow

  November 17, 2008

• Sean Penn wants Fred Phelps and family to "turn in their hate cards"

  I didn't watch the Academy Awards last night. OK, I did for like five minutes (too long). I tuned in just in time to see the "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" hand Sean Penn the best actor award for his role in Milk. I was too busy texting "bullshit" to Peter Rugg -- I mean, did you see The Wrestler? -- to listen to Penn's acceptance speech. I should have. He gave a shout-out to America's most hated family, the members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, who were picketing the Academy Awar

  February 23, 2009

• ACLU2

  April 9, 2009

• KCPD cuts gay members' health insurance benefits

  Kansas City Police Chief Jim CorwinLast Thursday afternoon, members of the Kansas City Police Department received an e-mail with the subject line: "Police Budget Update." The "Extra Daily Informant" explained how the department is going to make ends meet with a $15 million cut to the budget that begins May 1. Chief Jim Corwin, the memo noted, had tapped a 12-person task force earlier in the day to study the numbers and make recommendations to the full Board of Police Commissions later this mon

  April 14, 2009

• KCPD says heteros hit hardest by domestic partner cuts

  A few hours after I posted an item about Kansas City Police Department yesterday, spokesman Rich Lockhart let me know the information might be misleading. According to a police memo last week, the department is cutting domestic partner benefits in an effort to save $421,000 in a particularly tight budget year. While such benefits allow same-sex couples to get shared health insurance, plenty of straight pairs take advantage, too. A domestic partnership, I now know, can be any man and

  April 15, 2009

• Support gay Mexicans – at home and in California

  October 30, 2008

• This week: answers to muy tricky questions involving Mexicans and Catholicism

  September 18, 2008

• KU Pride Week

  April 16, 2009

• Sexual Epiphanies

  July 3, 2008

• LGBT Stampede

  June 26, 2008

• Letters for the week of June 5

  June 5, 2008

• Giving and Receiving

  This week, the Mexican answers all sorts of sexy questions.

  February 14, 2008

• Beyond Dorothy

  December 27, 2007

• Pages and Pages

  December 13, 2007

• The Ad Guys

  Queer ads for the straight cads.

  October 14, 2004

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  June 2, 2005

• Meaner Girls

  Want a view into the heart of high school darkness? Try Xanga.com.

  March 31, 2005

• Open Wide

  First Family Church's Jerry Johnston has his orders for Kansas City.

  February 10, 2005

• Pro Choice

  Crosswise with the church, one Catholic family votes with its feet.

  December 9, 2004

• Wedding Bell Blues

  Letters from the week of November 25, 2004

  November 25, 2004

• Behind the Veil

  What’s with all this talk about getting married, anyway?

  November 18, 2004

• Ministers Hate Fags Too

  Kansas preachers want revenge on the Kansas Legislature — if they don’t get ratted out by spies first.

  July 22, 2004

• Beating the Rap

  Dan Renzi just wanted a little time to himself. But when police arrested him in a porn theater, he made it an international event.

  July 1, 2004

• Queer Bait

  Dems expect the gay vote — so why don’t they earn it?

  June 17, 2004

• Altar Ego

  Democrats should say “I don’t” to the gay-marriage trap.

  February 12, 2004

• A Boy's Life

  The Supreme Court effectively threw out the Kansas Sodomy Law, but Attorney General Phill Kline won't let Matthew Limon out of jail.

  January 22, 2004

• Double Feature

  Filmmaker Jesse Scolaro wants to shake, shake, shake.

  November 20, 2003

• Safe Passage

  Being young and gay isn't always very gay -- but local organizations are trying to help.

  August 21, 2003

• You've Got Male!

  AOL helps two gay Kansans say “I do.”

  July 17, 2003

• A Nasty Rumor

  The African-American AIDS Project gets stripped of its funds.

  April 24, 2003

• Battle Hymns

  The Heartland Men's Chorus comes out in support of gay and lesbian soldiers.

  March 27, 2003

• Head Cases

  A man who had sex at Shawnee Mission Park and patrons at a St. Louis porn house carry the baton for gays and lesbians in Kansas and Missouri.

  January 2, 2003

• Out and About

  Mark Signorile brings gay consciousness to the Midwest.

  October 24, 2002

• Gay Games

  A political campaign gets bitchy.

  July 25, 2002

• Jesus of the Weak

  Hallmark finds a hottie Jesus to help it Focus on the Family.

  June 27, 2002

• Love Worn Out

  Baptists tell gays how to change.

  June 13, 2002

• Class Project

  Winnetonka High Schoolers envision life in Laramie.

  March 21, 2002

• Crime Lapse

  Police can't find hatred or clues in a gay man's murder.

  February 21, 2002

• A Man's World

  In You Don’t Know Dick, a few girls grow up to be men.

  January 24, 2002

• Boy's Life

  Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. tells hard truths.

  December 27, 2001

• Unprotected Sex

  Johnson County prosecutes a man for having sex.

  December 6, 2001

• A Woman Scorned

  J'Noel Gardiner used to be a man. When her millionaire husband died without a will, she had a point to make.

  November 29, 2001

• No Flowers Please

  In death, J.D. O'Neal leaves few with fond memories.

  November 22, 2001

• Best of Cho

  Margaret Cho laughs off addiction to food and sex.

  October 11, 2001

• Miller Time

  Tim Miller's hope chest springs eternal.

  September 6, 2001