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...