As part of Milan's recent Social Media Week, I gave a speech on the strategies and tactics we used at The Four 2012 to support marriage equality wins in four states last November, and explained the state of our country's fight for gay rights to the international audience.

I told...

"Are we going to have to fight him every time?" a prominent gay blogger pinged me in late January in response to Governor Andrew Cuomo's latest budget proposal. It's not generating much reaction. The New York Times even shrugged it off, calling it "low-buzz," although "extra-lean." It's Cuomo's...

Last month I was lucky enough to attend Creating Change 2013, the largest gathering of LGBT activists in the country, produced yearly by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. At the New Media Training Institute I gave a presentation, curated by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD),...

I've known Corey Johnson for nearly 10 years; we met as young staffers on Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential Campaign. Corey and I were those young progressive idealists that you can really only be in your extremely early twenties. The kind willing to work sixteen hours a day for ten months...

On Tuesday, LGBT activists reversed a 32 election losing streak to win all four states equality on their ballots: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.

As co-founder and digital director of The Four 2012, a social media campaign focused exclusively on activating young voters in those states,...

Tomorrow, Election Day, Marylanders have an opportunity to make history by voting for Question 6 and passing marriage equality by popular vote for the first time in our nation's history. Supporters of marriage equality have lost 32 ballot initiatives in a row, but 2012 is the year we capture the...

Revolution 2.0, former Google Marketer Wael Ghonim's brisk, first person account of the Egyptian Revolution offers real lessons that online community managers of any brand or organization should learn. Ghonim was the administrator and creative director of the 'Kullena Khaled Said' Facebook Page, easily the largest opposition social media page...

On Wednesday night, a gay youth homeless shelter was vandalized with anti-gay graffiti that read; "We don't want gay people here."

The shelter, located in Queens, is operated by New York City's Ali Forney Center, the nation's largest organization serving homeless...

Greg Palmer and I's new episode of our weekly podcast Two Beers In went up tonight. It's a really good episode. Listen below, more details from CitizeNYC:

On this week's Two Beers In, we...

On this week's episode of CitizeNYC's Two Beers In, hosts Greg Palmer and Ryan J. Davis talk about renaming the Freedom Tower to One World Trade, New York's most popular politician, and David Paterson's improbable campaign. Plus, gay activist groups that sound like gay bars.

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In 2000, my first year living in New York City, I attended over 200 different theater productions. This year, I clocked in barely a hundred. Below are my top five in no particular order.

Last week when Gore Vidal said a bunch of stupid things about Barack Obama, I left him alone. He's old and prone to saying anything that will get his name in print. Remember, he was completely inconsistent during the primaries, flip-flopping between Obama and Clinton. He said things that many...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) filled up a large room with gay activists at New York's LGBT Community Center yesterday for a 45-minute town hall meeting that touched on many issues important to the community. Questions ranged from gay persecution in Iraq to repealing "Don't ask, don't tell." Although she has...

There is a lot of anger from the left about what's being seen as Obama capitulating to the Republicans on health insurance reform. During the campaign Obama favored a public option. Now, the public option appears in danger and many liberals don't think "real" reform is possible without it.

In...

Pressure is building for CNN to do something about their resident conspiracy-theorist-in-chief Lou Dobbs. His nightly "reporting" on Obama's birth certificate drew fire today from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which called on CNN to take Dobbs off the air for "fanning the flames of racism." None of this should...

The New York City stage is packed this summer and the three Off-Broadway productions I'm recommending, Ruined, The Temperamentals, and Jeffery & Cole: Make It Bigger, all represent the wonderful diversity of offerings currently available to theatergoers.

Ruined, which won the Pulitzer Prize this year, is the story...

An e-mail circulating among NYC gay politicos of a poorly photoshopped wanted poster, attacks the many gay New Yorkers who recently endorsed the reelection of Mayor...

Yesterday's decision by the California Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8's ban on gay marriage is a sad, though expected, decision.

Now gay Californians have no way legally to protect themselves; they have zero legal recognition. All these couples have are California state domestic partnerships, which provide every single legal...

Maine leaped to the right side of history today with the passage of a gay-marriage bill through legislative channels. I'm impressed with the momentum of the LGBT movement post-Iowa, and it looks likely that advocates will reach their goal of marriage equality throughout New England by 2012.

What's overblown is...

Pop singer Mya has released a portion of her new song Blackout (Explicit Lyrics), which addresses domestic violence. The song was recorded before...