by Carl Matthes
Hypersex has hit the headlines. Obviously, too many males are unable to control their raging testosterone and bad judgment.
It’s gotten so prevalent that, according to Shari Roan in the March 1 edition of the Los Angeles Times, the American Psychiatric Association has proposed that “out-of-control sexual  appetites be included in the next edition [...]

by Carl Matthes
About the same time (1948) that Democratic U.S. President Harry S. Truman was ordering the desegregation of America’s military, the government of South Africa was instituting “apartheid.” The South African Dutch and English occupiers/ransackers (think today’s fictional “Avatar”), were moving in an opposite direction to emerging American and International codes of conduct. They [...]

by Carl Matthes
Despite a lack of movement towards equal rights on the national political stage for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Americans (Where are you Democratic Liberals and Progressive when we need you?), there are three important LGBT gains as we enter 2010.
Houston, America’s fourth largest city, elected native daughter and Rice University graduate Annise [...]

by Carl Matthes
He’s a radio commentator who’s an entertainer. An entertainer who is a super-salesman. A salesman who ridicules and promotes hate. Making the front page of the February 8, 2009 Los Angeles Times was the man who is all those things rolled into one larger-than-life personality: Rush Limbaugh.
And, he’s gaining [...]

by Carl Matthes
July 26, 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman signing Executive Order #9981 ending racial segregation of the United States military. 2009 also marks the 16th anniversary of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the law passed by Congress mandating the discharge of openly gay, lesbian or bisexual military servicemembers. According to [...]

 
by Carl Matthes
In the Oxford English Dictionary “equality” means, “Identical in amount; neither less nor greater…having the same measure, number, value, intensity.” How did three Democratic presidents, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson, speak to equality?
President Barack Obama on Monday, June 1, 2009 named June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month” issuing [...]