Harvey Milk

8: The Mormon Proposition Will Knock Your Socks Off

Fred Karger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Fred Karger

Reed Cowan's amazing new documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, could well be the movie of the year.

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Live From Capitol Hill

Nancy Snow | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Nancy Snow

Many Americans are talking back to government, some more viciously than the majority, but Pelosi's broad brush seems to paint all Obama administration critics as potential violent offenders and inciters.

Nancy Pelosi Warns Of Violence Over Heated Rhetoric, Chokes Up (VIDEO)

Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's eyes watered Thursday as she called for the rhetorical heat to be turned down across the country, and warned that such wo...

Classroom Guards

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Christopher Brauchli

Vigilance: Without it, who knows what sorts of insidious messages could slip into the curriculum of public schools throughout the country?

Cleve Jones: The Man Behind the Curtain

Bil Browning | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


Bil Browning

One outstanding impression from my interview with Cleve Jones was simple and all encompassing: he is no gay God; he has feet of clay.

Lessons In Hope and Inspiration From Harvey Milk

Jason Mannino | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living


Jason Mannino

Honoring Harvey Milk with a day that commemorates him helps to send the still dire messages of hope, inspiration, and equality. It also boldly states that we do not live in a culture that tolerates violent oppression.

Saving Small Businesses, The Brooklyn Way

Jim Luce | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York


Jim Luce

Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.

America's Gay Leadership Crisis

Rupert Russell | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics


Rupert Russell

At a time when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are flourishing in America's public life like never before, those charged with advancing their civil equality have retreated into the closet.

Freedom Without Equality Is Just a Medal

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Charles Karel Bouley

Let's hope Barack does more than award Harvey Milk: Let's hope he takes the spirit and lessons Milk taught and actually begins changing things for members of his country still oppressed by institutionalized bigotry and religious dogma.

Harvey Milk: What His Presidential Medal of Freedom Means to All Americans

Chuck Wolfe | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


Chuck Wolfe

When Stuart Milk accepts the Medal of Freedom tomorrow, it will be tinged with the thought of what might have been -- for Harvey, for our movement, and for our country.

When Should Gay Marriage Advocates Try to Reverse California's Prop 8?

William Bradley | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

This week, a few organizations championing same-sex marriage will announce their opinions as to whether to try to reverse Prop 8 in 2010 or 2012.

ReThinking The Times of Harvey Milk: You Earned Your Medal, and a Lot More

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment


Jonathan Kim

Obama is awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to Harvey Milk.

Medals Of Freedom: Obama Honors Ted Kennedy, Harvey Milk And 14 Others

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people, including political ally Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ...

The (Zigzagged) Arc of History

Tanene Allison | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Tanene Allison

Every one of us debating inequality over our coffees in the morning has been granted a rare opportunity to change what it is those future grandchildren will read about.

America 2009: Hand Sanitizer, Safe Babies, and Prop 8

Tom Gregory | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics


Tom Gregory

Something tragic has happened to the American church. They have become a pawn in a game of wicked ridiculousness.

Would Harvey Milk Be Proud of Us?

Chuck Wolfe | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics


Chuck Wolfe

Today would have been Harvey's 79th birthday but for Dan White's bullet. It's a good time to reflect on whether we have heeded his call to live openly and fight hard for true equality.

Happy Birthday Harvey Milk (and thanks for giving us hope)

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics


Joe Cutbirth

The defining moment in my adult life came inconveniently about six months after I got the first big break in my journalism career. At least it seemed ...

Carrie Prejean, Let's Talk About Milk

Anna Wainwright | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Anna Wainwright

Prejean might want to take a brief look at Milk and think about how her legacy will hold up over the long haul. It is not the hero of that movie she resembles. No offense intended.

From the California State Democratic Convention in Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

From the atmosphere over the weekend at the convention, one could get the impression that the Democratic Party's base is strong and the leadership of the State Legislature has made all the right moves.

Lesbian and Gay Musical Ambassadors

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment


Jim Luce

The Big Apple Corps started out as a social organization, and continues today to offer a place where people can make friends -- and even fall in love.

Gay Marriage in Iowa? Come on, San Francisco!

Nato Green | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Nato Green

If it's not worth it to win marriage equality, to unite to spite the right, it's definitely worth it to stop the insurgent Iowan and Vermontian hubris and salvage our street cred among freaks.

Gay Parents? Don't Be Afraid For The Kids

Mary Liz Thomson | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living


Mary Liz Thomson

My brother and his partner beam proudly when the kids call them Dad. The people who know them well continue to be impressed.

NAACP National Chairman Julian Bond tells Gay America to Demand a Front Seat on the Bus (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics


Tom Gregory

Bond's response to many of the biblical passages used by Christian conservatives to condemn homosexuality (including those favorite scriptures in Leviticus) is must-see TV.

Jason Linkins

Bill O'Reilly Fears 'Milk' Replay In San Francisco

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics


It seems that as our Media Monitoring Project gets rolling, the enthusiasm of its participants will sometimes gallop away with them. That's the case ...

Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics


Jim Luce

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.