Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Pete Hegseth on lady soldiers: "You don't want to have to deal with Matt's feelings toward Mary"

Yesterday, in a surprising move, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order allowing women to partake in armed combat for the first time in American history.SEE ALSO: Decorated war vet Pete Hegseth seeking GOP endorsement to challenge Klobuchar [VIDEO]Panetta's move had the strong suppo ... More >>

Chris Kluwe takes a stand

Vikings punter pries open the last closet in America: major league sports

Hamline Wesley Award winners request honors be annulled over school's gay marriage stance

Colin Schumacher and Shona Ramchandani, two recipients of Hamline's prestigious John Wesley Award, have requested the annulment of their honors after school administration decided to remain neutral on the Minnesota marriage amendment.SEE ALSO: Hamline professor Stephen Kellert calls on university ad ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty easy favorite in National Association of Evangelicals poll

Tim and Mary Pawlenty on the Christian Broadcasting Network earlier this year.​All his tack-to-the-hard right rhetoric with right wing Christian TV and radio shows is paying off. In the battle for God - or a conservative evangelical God anyway -- Tim Pawlenty appears to have the upper hand. L ... More >>

Queer in the Twin Cities

Eight important local LGBT leaders

Bachmann raises cash off Obama's call to abandon Defense Of Marriage Act

Bachmann finds another way to make a buck.​When the Obama administration announced that it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, Michele Bachmann didn't take to her microphone at Fox News, and she didn't rant on the House floor. She asked supporters for ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty would rather defund the military than let gays in

Sometimes being a hero means denying the American military the funding it needs to uphold the law.​The Don't Ask Don't Tell debate is over, but Tim Pawlenty seems to think that if he can revive it he might also be able to revive his so-far lifeless campaign to get Americans to remember his nam ... More >>

Undercover mother: Who was Karen Sullivan?

Government agent was not really a peace activist

Tim Pawlenty's new movie trailer is awesomely over-the-top [VIDEO]

One man has the courage to make a blockbuster movie preview about himself.​The magic of Hollywood knows no limit. It can even make Tim Pawlenty seem like a compelling figure for 90 seconds. The erstwhile governor of Minnesota is on a book tour, or running for president, or something, but no one h ... More >>

Who was Karen Sullivan? Minnesota activists remember the undercover government agent

Who was Karen Sullivan?​Prosecutors investigating more than a dozen Minnesota anti-war activists recently confirmed that the charges rely on an undercover agent who spent two and a half years infiltrating their organization. This is how the woman who called herself Karen Sullivan insinuated herse ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty would reinstate Don't Ask Don't Tell if he could [VIDEO]

Pawlenty wants military gays back in the closet.​If he's elected president, Tim Pawlenty says he would put military gay folk back in the closet by reinstating Don't Ask Don't Tell, putting himself at odds with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Pentagon brass and members of Congress who suppor ... More >>

Target kept on giving to anti-gay politicians after Emmer fiasco

mmtzjr69out​The dust has settled in the wake of the 2010 elections, and the hot white glare on Target's controversial support for anti-gay Republican Tom Emmer's gubernatorial campaign has faded. But FEC records show that the Target political action committee kept up its donations to anti-ga ... More >>

DADT passes House with help from Walz, Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar

Tim Walz speaks out in favor of repealing DADT.​The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Gay folk are one step closer to being able to serve their country in the military openly. Minnesota Democrats Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Jim Oberstar and Tim ... More >>

3,000 anti-gay marriage DVDs returned to Archbishop Nienstedt

Merry Christmas, Archbishop.​Archbishop John Nienstedt will get an early Christmas present today in the form of 3,000 anti-gay marriage DVDs, some of the 400,000 he ordered sent to his flock in September. A protest group called ReturnTheDVD planned to deliver the disks, along with handwritte ... More >>

Patriotic country songs: The good, the bad, the ugly

​Happy Armistice slash Veterans Day! This is the day we're supposed to be patriotic, but without blowing anything up. And so on this day, I'm going to remember that services for veterans are woefully underfunded, that Don't Ask Don't Tell is bullshit policy, that women comprise over 14% of active- ... More >>

'Equality is the prime rib of America' and other surreal political moments in pop music

​Lady Gaga proclaimed yesterday that "Equality is the prime rib of America," simultaneously empowering and confusing the hell out of legions of GLBT activists as they rallied against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." While the nation's top socio-political scientists try to decode what Gaga could have possi ... More >>

Al Franken near tears after GOP halts Don't Ask Don't Tell debate [VIDEO]

Al Franken on the Senate floor​Sen. Al Franken has done seven USO tours to military bases in war zones since 1999. For almost as long, he's been mocking the military's anti-gay Don't Ask Don't Tell policy from the stage, getting big laughs from the troops. But he almost broke into tears on th ... More >>

Kathy Griffin