When Stuart Milk stands before the president and the country to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of his late, slain uncle Harvey Milk, it'll be a moment of incredible pride for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT).

Yet this is a moment that will transcend...

Shortly before he died in 1978, openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk made some extraordinarily prescient audio recordings. On one recording, he famously said, "If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door."

Today would have been Harvey's 79th birthday but for Dan White's...

Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern's now-infamous anti-gay speech published on YouTube last Friday has garnered worldwide attention, and 1 million people have now viewed the video. Moved by the egregious level of homophobia coming from the elected official, Ellen DeGeneres took an uncharacteristic step of playing Kern's comments on her...