New Year, Unwavering Resolution
2010 is not just any year for me; it's the 20th anniversary of my first role with the board of an organization working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
2010 is not just any year for me; it's the 20th anniversary of my first role with the board of an organization working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics
Last weekend America had the chance to be in the driver's seat, in a position of power. Instead, American media, and officials, chose the victim route focusing on our vulnerability rather than our resilience.
David Kaufman | Posted 12.28.2009 | Entertainment
A Single Man isn't a film that demands you take to the streets -- or to the ranch. Instead, with its focus on love and loss, the film draws you inward to a place of contemplation rather than confrontation.
Posted 12.25.2009 | New York
Gay activists hit Hiram Monserrate on his home turf Tuesday by crashing the state senator's Christmas party and protesting his stance on gay marriage....
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
His name was William Wilberforce. He's proof an evangelical Christian conservative can be a good person.
Michael Luongo | Posted 12.23.2009 | Books
I view the Beirut Book Fair for the Arabic Version of Gay Travels in the Muslim World as a success. Needless to say, in a country where to be gay is still technically illegal, this kept people away.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.25.2009 | Politics
While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.
Michael Luongo | Posted 12.18.2009 | Books
I have to admit that at first I was afraid to enter, but it was what I spent two years working on - the debut of the Arabic version of my book, Gay Travels in the Muslim World, here in the Muslim world itself.
Wayne Besen | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
It is my belief that outrageously hypocritical behavior demonstrated by conservative religious authorities is directly responsible for the surge in non-believers and those who shun organized religion.
Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.
Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media
Richard Cohen claims he has helped thousands of people come out of ... homosexuality. His work has drawn the ire of the LGBT community, and has als...
Eliot Schrefer | Posted 12.09.2009 | Technology
I've spent many hours in recent weeks living in the virtual world of Dragon Age Origins. So is Zevran bisexual? After playing the game, it seems that the elf rogue may swing both ways.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York
A couple in Brooklyn is looking to challenge the legitimacy of straight marriages in light of the recent New York Senate vote against gay marriage rights. Their strategy: apply for an annulment.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment
Grammy has always walked a tightrope between what is commercial and what is artistically satisfying, but the 2010 nominees show that commercialism and corporatism have a strong hold on the awards.
Rick Jacobs | Posted 12.03.2009 | Los Angeles
In the coming days, Perez may well make history, becoming the first openly gay speaker of any state legislature in the United States.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology
On Twitter, we are each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time. Chris MacDonald-Dennis gave new meaning to that Tuesday night when within two hours -- firing off about 100 tweets in succession, totaling some 2,100 words and chronicling the narrative and arc of his 40-year-old life, from his childhood as a biracial kid in working class Boston to dealing with being gay adult man in America -- he came out as HIV-positive on his Twitter stream.
David Kaufman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Nearly three decades after the epidemic's arrival, AIDS remains if exactly not off-limits -- then certainly off the radar screens of many prominent LGBT leaders. This needs to end.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living
Holidays are for families. I am so proud to be a member of a community that acknowledges that by creating families from the most unlikely of people in the most unusual of ways.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
A new study finds that hate crimes actually declined slightly in 2008, despite an economic recession, increasing demographic diversification, and an apparent rise in the number of active hate groups.
Joe Vogel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
I like you, Adam, I really do. That is why I freely offer these pearls of wisdom on how to celebrate, not dilute, the purity of your sexual identity.
Keli Goff | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
While black Americans have come far in a lot of respects we remain a political scapegoat for certain constituencies. I'm not referring to white, working class voters. I'm referring to some members of the gay rights movement.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The child molestations, and filing sticky-fingered priests from diocese to diocese, is all part of God's grand plan, but showing the slightest bit of consideration for gay couples is just too much.
Wayne Besen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.
Jim David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Whatever church those people do go to, they are taught hate and fear, not the Christian love I grew up with. They both hate gays and fear them.
Isobel White | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
If experiences in California are any measure, LGBT residents of Maine can expect higher levels of stress and depression and greater feelings of political alienation. So what can we do differently?
Geoff Kors | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics