In a HuffPost Live segment Friday, Doug Dittmer, the co-author of Over The Cliff: Gay Husbands In Straight Marriages, opened up about what it was like...
For one, the "coming out" dog and pony show that the media puts on now is getting tired. It should not be breaking news in 2013 for anyone to announce their sexuality. I understand how "momentous" and "unprecedented" all of this is, but I do find it exploitative and repetitive as well.
Better for everyone -- Muslim, Christian, Jew, even Communist -- to live in a society which guarantees freedom of belief and practice.
It's time we welcome everyone into our society as an equal, and push for equality regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual preference or anything else. Hopefully in May, we can all celebrate when the Boy Scouts make the announcement they are lifting the ban on gays.
What basic fact about homosexuality do you, your parents, your local evangelical priest, and your science teacher most likely agree about? Try this one: Homosexuals don't reproduce. This verity is beyond obvious: Try as they may, two men or two women together cannot have babies.
In a way, I'm glad that David Petraeus's sex scandal is playing out across the pages and television screens of the mass media. Because one of the alternative ways it could have been handled is so much worse.
In 1941, a 17-year-old Pierre Seel was arrested and imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for being gay. Seel, who grew up in Mulhouse, France ne...
Remembering the mathematician and logician Alan Turing on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 06/14/2012 12:02 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Straight women are much more likely to get themselves knocked...
Today many, if not most, artist-photographers incorporate issues of theater, sexuality and the constructed self into their work. From Cindy Sherman's ...
We as a culture have held fast to the idea that we need to protect the boundaries between male and female. This is wrong, and even dangerous. Instead, we need to be reframing the discussion, and asking: What makes a boy a boy?
This is the story of Nathan and Tristan. Nathan is that self-professed former "Bible-banging homophobe" who (along with some other like-minded, reformed individuals) decided to attend a local gay pride parade to apologize for the way the church has treated homosexuals.
Heterosexual males moments after hearing "I Will Survive" Photo: Paper Boat Creative Courtesy of: Paper Boat Creative San Francisco, CA -- Psychol...
People who are gay usually prefer to choose the setting and situation surrounding the moment when they come out to people in their lives. But that dec...
An ecumenical group of religious leaders have demanded that the Honduran government deny a visa to Ricky Martin, arguing that he represents a bad mora...
In the U.S., the debate about same-sex marriages has created a dividing line in the so-called culture wars, but in Jerusalem, where Orthodox Jews do not accept homosexuality, it feels like America, circa 1952.
Public scrutiny is tough business. My hope for Blake and for the rest of us, is that we turn our missteps into opportunities to inform and educate and advocate for justice and peace.
I have never been more proud to be an American and a global citizen of the United Nations than on the day the United States and the majority of nation-members of the U.N. issued this declaration.
Then there are a brave few who will not give up their beliefs or their same-sex love. One of those courageous people is Spazz.
Ricky Martin's tour started with accusations from self-proclaimed apostol Wanda Rolón, stating in a press conference that he was condemning Puerto Ri...
If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.
Only time will tell whether more evangelical leaders will add their voices to the chorus calling for full and unapologetic inclusion of homosexuals in the life of the church.
General James Conway's comments last week are illustrative of a push to create a second-class status for gay troops once DADT is repealed.
KAMPALA, Uganda — The front-page newspaper story featured a list of Uganda's 100 "top" homosexuals, with a bright yellow banner across it that r...
Stay tough, stay hopeful, stay healthy and stay alive because, I promise you -- as a gay man, a medical doctor and, most importantly, as a survivor -- it absolutely does get better.
