In their wigs, theatrical make-up and grandiose veils, it's unlikely that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence could be confused for ordinary nuns. Their 2003 Gay Pride float featured a masked George-W.-Bush-like figure straddling a cock-rocket, publicly flaunting his belatedly discovered "weapons of ass destruction." Their Good Friday ceremonies...

Visibility has been a cornerstone objective of the LGBT movement for equality since its beginnings. Of the slogans chanted from the front lines of the gay liberation movement in the 60s and 70s, the call to "come out!" was perhaps the loudest. And in the four decades since the Stonewall...

In 2009, Ugandan Parliamentary member David Bahati proposed an anti-gay bill that would impose life imprisonment on LGBT Ugandans and the death penalty on serial offenders of homosexual acts. If passed, all Ugandans would be required to report suspected homosexuals to the police within 24 hours. Inciting fear and sanctioning...

The New York City Anti-Violence project reports that 40% of lesbians and gay men in the U.S. have been victimized by hate violence in their adult lifetimes, and that hate violence is a near-universal experience of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. In other words, violence against LGBT people...

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Alec Baldwin joined Fordham Law School professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum for a conversation at The Forum on Law, Culture and Society Wednesday night. He discussed his life-long interest in law, including his portrayals of...

Photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders brings his signature portraiture to film with HBO's The Black List: Vol. 3, a compilation of interviews with prominent African Americans including Whoopi Goldberg, United Negro College Fund President Dr. Michael Lomax and Precious Director Lee Daniels.

Like Greenfield-Sanders's photography (see his Please Don't Retouch...