The fact that so many high school LGBT students surveyed had been assaulted at school is harrowing enough--now picture things nearly twice as bad for students even earlier in their lives.
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
But state and university employees no longer feel welcomed by the state. One state employee said, "I choose to work for the state as a public servant, but the state just spit in my eye."
Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.
Pam Spaulding | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
With web sites, blogs, and social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the online LGBT community has emerged as an example of both leadership and rabble-rousing success.
Sara Whitman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
I don't know if anyone from the anti-equality side realizes this, but we are going to have families whether we have rights nor not. Our kids are going to go to public schools, period.
Steven Petrow | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
What does Chaz Bono teach us about transgender folks?
Jesse Connolly | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Our opponents are tenacious -- and well-funded. The anti-marriage campaign in Maine is being led by the same groups that ran the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign in California last year.
Michael Luongo | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
I leave Baghdad soon, this beautiful, dangerous and ancient capital, wondering what to make of this tale of two cities for the gay men I have met who must walk a precarious balance in this still war-torn place.
Marianne Duddy-Burke | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Who will be the kind of leader who would stand up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concerns like Kennedy did? We lost a loyal friend and a powerful advocate.
Jason Mannino | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
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.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The real colorful dream of this country is not about a mythical Camelot but a real land of second-chances, a land of reinvention and fresh opportunity.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment
Janis Ian is one of the Woodstock era's unsung musical heroes who, just two years prior to the Bethel Bash, shocked our nation with her controversial single "Society's Child."
Wayne Besen | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
It is incomprehensible to waste American lives fighting the Taliban to protect a regime that looks an awful lot like the Taliban. If women are not equal partners, let's pack up and leave.
Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
The killings -- committed without evidence or trial, on the basis of prejudice and whim -- violate standards in Sharia law for legality, proof, and privacy.
Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The LGBT community is used to being downtrodden and dismissed. Prejudice, animosity, and apartheid flew out of Pandora's Box long ago.
Jason Mannino | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
"I used to think that it was anger that motivated me...Then at some point I realized it wasn't really anger that was keeping me going..it was doing th...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
Obama is awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to Harvey Milk.
AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country's ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are...
Edge Boston | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
A Seattle-area athlete needed medical treatment Tuesday after small bombs were thrown onto the track at the start of a relay run at the World Outgames...
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
LONDON — The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy...
AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
GENEVA — The United Nations granted official status to a gay and lesbian organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. ...
Jason Mannino | Posted 08.22.2009 | Entertainment
Twenty years ago, Bobby Griffith died instantly when he threw himself off an overpass, unable to reconcile his self-loathing and his religious mother's determined quest to heal his homosexuality.
Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Just because you want to invite them all doesn't mean you should. Masked or unmasked bitterness, rage or jealousy can quickly tank the best of parties.
The Washington Blade | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT groups during the Bush admi...
Eliza Byard | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics