Hats off to the Obamas for drawing national attention to the problem of bullying in our school communities. Hosting a conference at the White House to draw more media attention to bullying is an excellent step forward.

Like most symbolic White House gatherings, though, this conference recommended some good steps...

It is completely understandable why there has been so much pressure on government authorities in South Hadley, Massachusetts to find someone to blame for 15-year old Phoebe Prince's suicide last month.

But the issues involved in this case, and in the case of Carl Walker Hoover,...

This week another young life was silently lost in our nation's schools. Eleven year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover killed himself after enduring months of anti-gay bullying at his school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Carl's shocking suicide is the latest in a growing trend. Just last week, parents in Ohio...

On Wednesday, 250 educators and students from Laramie, Wyoming opened the 10th Matthew Shepard Symposium for Social Justice by watching the film Straightlaced? How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up. Before the screening, a reporter asked me how today's climate has changed since Matthew's brutal murder in 1998. "It's deceptive,"...

When I heard the news last week that Vice President Cheney's daughter Mary and her partner were expecting a baby, I thought, wow, "it's finally happened." A true revolution within our lifetime, actually in less than even 25 years.

In 1984, I made my first film, a...