Gay Marriage

For GS student, Prop 8 trial was personal

Ryan Kendall, GS ’13, was one of 19 witnesses against California’s Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Fighting for an equal future

Politicians claim that there are few issues they can effectively deliver on right now. But they can deliver on marriage equality.

Marriage and apathy in the Garden State

A look at our paradoxical views (or lack thereof) on marriage equality.

Defeat of same-sex marriage bill disappoints many

Reactions to the defeated same-sex marriage bill, on campus and off

Same-sex marriage isn’t the issue—it’s the State

Libertarians offer an unconventional perspective on this issue that is often drowned out of the political sphere.

N.Y. proposes same-sex marriage

The right to same-sex marriage, once a long-shot hope for many couples in New York, may now be closer to becoming a reality.

O'Donnell Engages on Politics, Identity

While marching in the Gay Pride Parade in 1998, local State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell (D-69th district) was asked, “Are you really gay?”
O’Donnell—who at the time had set out on his first run for public office—had to bring over his partner “and make out with him in front of ten or fifteen people” just to prove it, he told a circle of students gathered for a Thursday evening event sponsored by Barnard’s LGBT group, Q.

Obama and the Wrong Side of History

I am tired of zero-sum culture wars that fail to acknowledge ideological pluralism. Rather than maintain enemy fire with all who disagree, we should strive for conversation.

Gaying Straight Marriage

I worry every time I write this column. Will people find it relevant? Do LGBT experiences matter to the people reading it? Is it going to be typecast as the “gay column”?

Getting Beyond Gay Marriage

Imagining a future for myself was one of the hardest things to do when I was first coming out of the closet.