On the night of December 12, 2009, Michael McManus committed a heinous crime for which he may serve time in federal prison. Here is the story of what he did.

McManus, an openly gay man living in Houston, Texas, watched on December 12 as Houston elected Annise Parker as...

This article was originally published on Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel.

In September 2006, Samir, an Iraqi doctor, fled from his home to Jordan just moments before family members came to torture and murder him for "dishonoring" the family by being gay. Samir spent the next few years...

I was shocked to open the New York Times this morning to find that President Obama is considering adding a provision to the health care bill shielding physicians from lawsuits at the expense of innocent victims. According to the Times, Obama sees tort reform as a "credibility builder"--as if...