One of the great things about Facebook is the ability to reread posts made in the spur of the moment and quickly forgotten. I tend to forget some of the funny things our kids say, and it's great to...

I survived a plague.

It once seemed unfathomable that I'd ever write such words, let alone experience just such a cataclysmic event. Growing up in a bland but largely protected Southern California suburb in the '60s and '70s, I had no clue what lay...

Have you ever had a question and needed straight-shooting, professional advice? Dr. Darcy Sterling, a licensed clinical social worker based in the SoHo section of New York City, dishes up just that on a regular basis through her blog, her YouTube channel and her work with her...

WellCast, a youth-oriented Internet show focusing on self-esteem, has a new video up on how to come out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ).

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The following is an excerpt from an interview with author Michael Nava. For the complete interview, please visit KerganEdwards-Stout.com.

In 1986 the United States looked very different than it does today. Ronald Reagan was president. It was the year of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the...

Musical theater lovers, rejoice! Show business has a new star, and you won't have to fork over a month's rent to pay Broadway ticket prices to see her. Not only can you watch her from the comfort of your very own home, but she performs from her very own home,...

I recall it as if it were yesterday: stepping inside the sprawling bookstore, which smelled faintly of dust; walking past the periodicals, where gay porn titles peeked at me ever-so-discreetly from the uppermost row; and crossing to the back of the store, reaching "my"...

Dear Bob,

As we enter this new year, a year full of promise and possibility, I realized that I could not in all fairness properly close out the old without first repaying a major debt, one that I owe to you, dear reader, for quite literally saving my life.

To...

In the not-so-distant past, gay musicians hid in the closet or played coy about their sexuality, but today's artists are an entirely different breed. For up-and-coming singer-songwriter Matt Gold, being gay may be a given, but it is simply one more piece to...

I first met fellow writer Trebor Healey at Palm Springs Pride, where we were both signing copies of our novels at the Authors' Village. Given that the title of my first novel includes the word "depression" and his recent title contains the...

With LGBT bookstores shuttering and the consolidation of gay media resulting in reduced promotional opportunities for publishers and authors, few venues remain for discovering literature reflecting the gay experience. Happily, Stephen Bottum continues to provide one of the best sources for LGBT publishing news...

On March 5, 1995, the day I turned 30, I admitted my then-partner Shane Sawick into the hospital. He would not come out alive, dying just two weeks later, on March 22. Although AIDS was the war he battled, he was ultimately done...

Following his success as a writer of erotica and as a columnist for Examiner.com, author Xavier Axelson has surprised readers with his debut novel, Velvet, a work of historical fiction that tells the tale of a royal tailor. While still...

Fellow author Jeffrey Ballam and I share many characteristics. We are both gay men, debut novelists, human rights advocates and Twitter friends and have undergone the grieving process, with each of us experiencing a partner's death due to HIV/AIDS. I have been eager to discover more about his journey, and...

This election was close -- much closer than it should have been. For those of us committed to progressive causes, it was a reminder that we need to work even harder to ensure that future such races contain a message that is clear, relevant and compelling, connecting the dots between...

While it may come as a surprise to learn that Ulysses S. Grant's great-great-grandson, Ulysses Grant Dietz, serves as Chief Curator for New Jersey's Newark Museum, it might come as a bigger surprise that he is also an author, with two gay vampire titles...

Please defriend me.

If you plan to vote for Mitt Romney, you are putting a nail into my civil rights coffin, and I'd rather not have friends who think I deserve anything less than equal treatment under the law. Romney supports DOMA (which directly...

Accompanying a recent Huffington Post article I wrote was a photo of my family, taken by Sara + Ryan Photography. That one photo resulted in so many terrific comments and queries from readers about the duo's work, which is primarily focused on...

While readers of gay fiction may be familiar with author Marten Weber due to his best-selling novel Benedetto Casanova: The Memoirs, over the years he has crafted many a tale, with each set in unique and varied places and times. He graciously took the...

When I lost a partner to AIDS in 1995, I immediately found myself adrift in a sea of ever-changing emotions, with which I wasn't yet equipped to deal. I didn't have the tools needed to properly channel and process my chaotic state until...