Senate hate crimes hearing devolves when Republican tells Arab American witness to ‘hide your head in a bag’
Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy made the outrageous remark during a heated exchange.
September 18, 2024
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GOP Sen. John Kennedy Reads Queer Sex Excerpts at Cringe-Worthy Senate Hearing
The 71-year-old used “lube” and other words in a sentence during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing..
September 13, 2023
Decoding Trump's strange obsession with the Kennedys
Opinion: With fixations on the JFK files, the Kennedy Center, RFK Jr., and former First Lady Jacqueline, Trump tries to be a Kennedy, writes John Casey.
March 20, 2025
The Supreme Court Justices' Secret Deal on LGBTQ+ Rights and Its Impact Today
A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy still has implications today.
March 30, 2023
Former President Obama Mentions Stonewall in Accepting Profile in Courage Award
Barack Obama gives a touching speech after he receives the award at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
May 8, 2017
President Obama Adresses LGBT Rights in Berlin Speech
In a tribute to John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, Obama addressed gay issues and AIDS prevention throughout the world.
June 19, 2013
Obama, Kennedy Include Gays in Endorsement Remarks
Senators Edward Kennedy and Barack Obama both included gays and lesbians in their speeches during the event Monday at which Kennedy endorsed Obama in his presidential bid. Obama's inclusion of LGBT people came while he was discussing the legacy of hope that both John and Robert Kennedy inspired in people: "And it lives on in those Americans -- young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight -- who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was president of the United States of America."
January 30, 2008
PHOTOS: Memories of JFK From His Gay Best Friend
President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas 50 years ago, leaving behind a mourning nation and his gay best friend, Lem Billings.
November 22, 2013
RFK Jr. makes California ballot by collaborating with political party with a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ+ past
The son of the former Democratic attorney general under President John F. Kennedy accepted the American Independence Party’s ballot spot in California. The group has a problematic history.
May 3, 2024
New 'Late Night' host Trump kills it with jokes on ending seven wars and GOP shutdown, and his pal Vladimir
Opinion: He's hosting the Kennedy Center Honors in December and a UFC fight on the White House lawn next summer, so why not a late-night show? writes John Casey.
October 9, 2025
Robert 'Froggy' Kennedy Jr. ribbits lies, conspiracy theories, and gibberish, garbling our public health
Opinion: Throughout his bizarre life, and especially at Thursday's Senate Finance Committee hearing, Kennedy has proved that he is the proverbial "Toad of Toad Hall," writes John Casey.
September 6, 2025
Kennedy Endorses Obama for President, Plans to Campaign for Him
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday as a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character" and a worthy heir to his brother, John F. Kennedy, who is still revered among Democrats four decades after his assassination. "I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in prepared remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.
January 29, 2008
Taking a page from his uncle JFK, Patrick Kennedy writes about profiles in mental health courage
Kennedy talks about how the LGBTQ+ community is an inspiration for mobilizing as we mark Mental Health Awareness Month.
May 22, 2024
JFK appointed the 'best and brightest,' as Trump nominates the buffonish, befuddled, and brain-wormed
If Trump’s election was the apocalypse, this week has been a never-ending April Fools, writes John Casey.
November 17, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Signalgate, Trump’s tariffs, and defending the LGBTQ+ community
As the Democratic Party struggles to communicate, Warren knows exactly what her message is and what her message is to Donald Musk and Elon Musk, who she calls “co-presidents.”
March 27, 2025
A history of political violence in the U.S., from Hamilton to Harvey Milk to Gabby Giffords
The attempt on Donald Trump's life Saturday was only the latest instance in a long history of violence against American political leaders.
July 16, 2024
When Father Joe tells you who to vote for, America loses its last vestige of morality
Opinion: There’s no more separation of church and state, and congregants souls may only be saved by voting for the right candidate, writes John Casey.
July 11, 2025
Melissa DuBose, a Black lesbian judge, makes Rhode Island history
She will be the first woman of color and first out LGBTQ+ person on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, but she had to endure some Republican grilling to get there.
March 14, 2024
Rachel Maddow warns of the possibility of a stolen election this November
In a New York Times column, the out MSNBC host worries about Republican efforts to fail to certify a Kamala Harris victory.
August 20, 2024
Harvey Fierstein drags Trump-led Kennedy Center, reveals he was banned
The Tony Award-winning actor and writer shared an emotional statement criticizing Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center.
March 18, 2025
Why We Could Use Sen. Ted Kennedy Now
The author of a new book on the complicated and consequential Kennedy and his life's work on AIDS and marginalized communities, and how he always found a partner on the other side of the aisle.
November 14, 2022