• Monday, January 18, 2010 - 12:21pm By Matthew Lawrence
    In less than twenty-four hours, Massachusetts voters will start heading to the polls to decide who will fill the seat vacated by the late Senator Ted Kennedy.  Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, is facing Republican State Senator Scott...
  • Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 5:28pm By Tim McElreavy
    It probably goes without saying that if people spent half as much time on their own, actual marriages as they do pontificating on who should or should not marry, there'd be a lot less divorce in this country. But as history has shown, such stinging...
  • Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 1:52pm By Chris Hall
    Last night's elections were a mixture of defeat and victory for LGBT issues across the country. The biggest disappointment of course, was the passage of Question 1 in Maine, which reversed legislation passed this May legalizing same-sex marriage....
  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 8:24am By Matthew Lawrence
    Bradfield is one of the most affluent, conservative districts in all of Australia, but it may soon have a fire-breathing pole dancing instructior as its representative in Parliament.  Zahra Stardust, nee Marianna Leishman, announced her...
  • Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 12:19pm By Chris Hall
    Some men in the African nation of Gabon are threatening to pull a page out of Lysistrata to make a (somewhat perplexing) political point. As the country approaches a highly controversial election to select the successor to Omar Bongo, who was...
  • Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:16pm By Chris Hall
    Canada has a Sex Party. Not one of those often-mundane events filled with naked people, but the political kind. Founded in 2005, the party has a platform dedicated to "develop[ing] a sex-positive culture," which includes radical planks such as...