DALLAS -- The Boy Scouts of America is trying to recruit a new generation of kids to join its troops with high-energy, high-tech activities that inclu...
Posted 04.30.2012
Support for the Ohio mom who was dismissed as leader of her son's Boy Scout troop because she is a lesbian continues to grow. The Gay and Lesbian...
Posted 04.26.2012
In fighting for a lesbian mother's right to serve as her son's Tiger Scout leader, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is drawing ...
13 WMAZ | Posted 04.23.2012
A park ranger found a decomposed body on the Camp Benjamin Hawkins Boy Scout reservation in Crawford county on Saturday. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 04.22.2012
Jennifer Tyrrell, the Ohio lesbian mother who was ousted as a den leader from her son’s Tiger Scouts chapter because of the Boy Scouts of America’...
Posted 05.04.2012
Every weekend we bring you a round up of either the best LGBT moments from the week before -- our Something To Celebrate series -- or, as you'll see b...
Zach Wahls | Posted 04.19.2012
My moms, too, are lesbian parents, and as an Eagle Scout (the highest rank the BSA has to offer) I am acutely aware of the effects this policy has on families like mine. The fact that my moms were lesbians was controversial in this conservative, central Wisconsin town of 20,000.
Posted 04.18.2012
A Boy Scouts den mother is speaking out after being ousted from her role because she is a lesbian. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (...
Brittany Gibbons | Posted 04.17.2012
My 6-year-old wants to join the Boy Scouts, and I know he'd love the Pine Wood Derby and camping with friends. But I also know The Boy Scouts of America has an explicit anti-gay policy.
The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 04.09.2012
UPDATE: 1:10 p.m., 4/9-- After last week's controversial debate surrounding a Boy Scout's patch, Latino Rebels reported that they met with the Tro...
Posted 03.27.2012
While getting your fresh, clean cut for spring, don't let your severed strands simply fall to the floor. The first-ever National Donate Your Hair ...
Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- A right-wing advocacy group headed by a Republican county supervisor in Northern Virginia has been designated a "hate group" by the Sou...
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.14.2012
JACKSON, Miss. — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department abandoned a plan to require...
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Posted 03.12.2012
By Amanda Marcotte (Click here for the original article) Also check out Magnum Photos' look at scouting around the world. As Girl Scouts nat...
Posted 02.22.2012
Three teen boys were trapped in Routt National Forest in central Colorado Sunday night through a blizzard, 9News reports. The friends -- 17-year-old J...
AP | Posted 02.20.2012
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A judge overseeing a lawsuit brought by the family of a California boy molested by his troop leader in 2007 has ordered the B...
Posted 01.30.2012
The tradition started when a traveling salesman tacked a single dollar bill with his name on it to the wall of Fat Smitty's restaurant in Discovery Ba...
Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 03.26.2012
January is designated as National Mentoring Month. When I learned of this I began thinking about who the mentors were in my life.
Posted 01.24.2012
Are the Boy Scouts of America turning over a new, more accepting leaf? That will likely be the question on many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen...
Tolland Patch | Posted 01.19.2012
Tolland resident Ken Hankinson has an important mission with some serious obstacles; he wants to conserve Tolland's open space and natural beauty with...
Michael Giltz | Posted 01.21.2012
WILD ANIMALS YOU SHOULD KNOW ** 1/2 out of **** LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE If you're studying nature and come across an unexpected creature or observe un...
Posted 01.11.2012
You may wear the scout's fire safety badge on your shoulder, but that doesn't mean your arm is fireproof. Unaware that he had some kerosene on his ...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.08.2012
Eileen Cuhaj, a plain, serious soul with a wisp of white hair and wire-rim spectacles that make her brown eyes sparkle, was raised a good Catholic girl. All these years, she has called upon her faith to sustain her.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has taken plenty of heat for making dubious assertions about modern medicine and health, but she's not t...
AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 10.19.2011
UPDATE: After serving 17 years behind bars for the brutal murder of three children in eastern Arkansas, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason...
AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 05.23.2012