Gay News: politics

by Jesse Monteagudo - SGN Contributing WriterOne of the hardest decisions that the board of an LGBT Pride organization has to make is choosing a grand marshal for their city's Pride parade. It is very difficult to satisfy a(...)

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather says voting against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in February was an extremely difficult choice and says equal marriage "wasn't one of those issues that I went into politics to tackle". (...)

General elections will be held in Iceland today as the country's prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, stepped down from politics yesterday. (...)

A former Ecuadorian presidential candidate who was previously fined for making homophobic comments has been banned from political activity for a year. (...)

LGBT issues have been cropping up in mainstream comics with increasing regularity, from the announcement that Green Lantern Alan Scott was gay to Northstar's marriage to his boyfriend in the pages of the X-Men . (Northstar and(...)

by Abby Dees - SGN Contributing WriterHaving friends who don't share your political views is very inconvenient. It requires you to think in terms of individuals, rather than lump everyone you disagree with into a tidy group that(...)

A new study based on exit polls from the 2012 November elections reveals that a majority of groups, including young Republicans, support gay marriage. (...)

Democrat John Paul Alvarez and Republican-turned-Democrat Scott Herman filed to run for state representative on Monday morning in Tallahassee. (...)

Christine Quinn is talking aim at two history birds with one stone. Quinn announced in a five-minute YouTube video that she would seek to become New York City's first female and first openly gay mayor in the city's history.(...)

A study by a Washington think tank has concluded that as opinions have shifted in recent years, legislators who support gay marriage stand better chances of being reelected than those who do not. (...)