Stephen Snyder-Hill

I really hated my life. I hated living like I was in prison. It was hurting my relationship. And it was all so fucking stupid. Was this a “special privilege”? Was this about sex? I was not asking to have sex in the military. If given the chance of a rebuttal after Mr. Santorum answered my question with his “sex has no place in the military” and “gay people want special privileges” rhetoric, I would have told him that story.

When Stephen Snyder-Hill and his U.S. Army unit were taking fire during the 1991 war in Iraq, the then-18-year-old private glanced down at a picture he carried of his brother with a girlfriend. “I decided if I died that day, I would never have loved somebody,” he said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A gay U.S. soldier who was booed during a Republican presidential debate in 2011 has joined the effort to overturn Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A legally married gay couple is awaiting a judge’s ruling on their request to legally hyphenate their last names, and said they were encouraged by a court employee to list something other than marriage as the reason for changing their names.

This piece is not a sell for Barack Obama, but a plea for the gay community to recognize who our true enemies are. It’s time we stop expecting a hero and be our own heroes. It’s time we start talking into account the cold fact that our struggle for equality is like a game of chess.

Audience members at Thursday nights GOP presidential debate booed a gay soldier who asked if the Republican candidates would reinstate the now repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned openly gay service members.