Ryan Shattuck
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Why ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ is Bad for the Country
Yes, it’s true: Being gay in the United States means one is much more likely to host an awards show,…
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Ken Mehlman, the Hypocrite
Coming out of the closet as a gay man or women is not an easy process. There’s a lot of…
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Why Ban Gay Marriage When We Can Ban Straight Divorce?
The odds of dying by being eaten by a shark are 1 in 251,800,000. The odds of being killed by…
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Civil Rights May Not be Popular … But They’re Still Right
One night in 1958, Mildred Jeter, a woman of African and American Indian descent, and her husband Richard Loving, a…
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Political Hoaxes and Jokes
I love a good joke. I love jokes about relationships, I love jokes about politics, I love jokes about sexual…
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A Gay Man Argues for Women’s Rights
It was Mark Twain who once famously said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged…
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Don’t Ignore It
I recently read the book Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank.…
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Gay Year’s Resolutions
We generally have somewhere between 60 and 90 opportunities in life to create New Year’s resolutions. Now, I do realize…
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Nice vs. Naughty
Naughty and nice. Good and bad. Black and white. Up and down. God and Satan. North and south. Left and…
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All Dogs and Babies Go to Heaven
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column was printed in an earlier edition of QSaltLake, and is being reprinted for the pet issue.…
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