In the past few years, gay people have finally begun to exercise the same rights as their straight siblings, yet there has been a sharp surge in violence against us.
Mike Alvear | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Six weeks ago, the Atlanta police threw everybody in a gay bar called The Eagle to the ground, handcuffing them face down on the floor. After two hours, they finally let everyone go.
Mike Alvear | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
You can't keep the city safe by locking up crooks, convicts and hard-core recidivists when there are gay men running around with impure thoughts.
Mike Alvear | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
For two hours, sixty gay men were forced to lay face down on the bar's filthy floors. Not a single man was arrested. Or given an apology. Or given a reason for why they were held against their will.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
Gay stereotypes, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous.
Johann Hari | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
In the Caribbean, majority-Muslim countries, and most of Africa, being gay is a death sentence -- yet many people who should be showing solidarity choose not to see it.
Joan Garry | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
I know what Obama meant -- that together we would fight for equality. But the line is also true if you look at it the other way. Over these next four years, he will continue to fight with the gay community. Because we are impatient.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
If the Obama administration can't pass a comprehensive overhaul of health care, then how is it going to repeal laws that a large proportion of Americans don't care about or to which many don't object?
Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
One of the dirty not-so-little-secrets of the same-sex marriage debate is that the everyday benefits of marriage don't require legal marriage at all.
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
NEW YORK — Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday...
Associated Press | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
FORT WORTH (AP) -- Protesters upset with the way police conducted a raid on a gay nightclub rallied in downtown Fort Worth. Seven people were arreste...
The Hill | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
President Obama, under fire from some gay and lesbian groups for what they see as slow movement on two of their most important issues, is taking steps...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.28.2009 | New York
There have been many remarkable changes in this country and the world over the past 40 years -- an African American president, the woman's right move...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York
New York City's 40th annual Gay Pride parade takes place this Sunday on June 29. Organized by the Heritage of Pride organization, the march proceeds ...
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.
New York Daily News | Carrie Melago | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York
They were the riots that spawned a revolution, the nights of protest that led to the dawn of the gay rights movement. Forty years ago this weekend, po...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Seeing all the blogs on the Huffington Post made me realize that Americans of all political persuasions care deeply about this issue of oppression in Iran.
Rea Carey | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Last week's Department of Justice brief defending DOMA was not merely disappointing, it was a public abrogation of the promise of equality the president himself embraced as a candidate.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.17.2009 | New York
Bred to be lovely and pleasant, to take for granted an ample supply of cash, the women of Grey Gardens were essentially abandoned to languish in a mansion infested with raccoons and cats.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
This month, we mark the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, when the struggle for full citizenship for LGBT Americans began in earnest.
Kate Clinton | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
The same year I began my career, Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan began their careers. It was also the year that gay men began dying from AIDS.
Jennifer Chrisler | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Stonewall was no accident, yet it was not an orchestrated affair. It was a moment and it became what we made of it.
Terrance Heath | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Wow. It's kind of unbelievable, really. You take something away from people, and they get angry. Take away hard won rights, and equal protection for t...
Calvin Gipson | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
"Although the platform is not emphasizing same-sex marriage, if you look around you'll see that the sky has not fallen. The bigots are still bigots but mainstream people do not feel threatened by same-sex marriage," said Kaplan, a Massachusetts DNC delegate.
Johann Hari | Posted 11.03.2009 | World