Despite evidence to the contrary, the Republican Party in recent decades has continued to live off the notion that they are the better party on the economy, jobs and related topics. Anyone paying attention to the economic catastrophes and their causes knows that we have done far worse under Republicans...

Imagine going through grammar school and high school not learning one thing about the history of your people. Not learning about the scientists, artists, astronauts, politicians, sports legends, and so many others who were just like you.

That happens even in 2012,...

"Growth of Overt Homosexuality in City Provokes Wide Concern." That was the headline on the front page of the New York Times on December 17, 1963.

We've come a long way, gaybies, and the Chick-fil-A insanity of last week is not going to send us back to...

I won't ever give my business to a Chick-fil-A, and I know that many LGBTs and our allies will also stay away. But Chick-fil-A has every right to be in business, in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. I would never want their bigotry to keep them from getting a...

Brian Williams is a straight white man. Barbara Walters is a straight white woman. Both make a very good living. These facts inform who they are, what sources they seek out, what social circles they travel in, and what slant they may present in their stories.

The myth of some...

There is a long tradition of newspapers endorsing candidates for election, but lately some papers are changing course.

While the Chicago Sun-Times has opted out of the process, the Chicago Tribune has written about continuing their more than 150-year tradition of telling readers who they...

Cynthia Nixon is in hot water with some gays for comments she made to The New York Times about whether she "chose" to be gay, or was "born that way." Here is an excerpt of what the Sex and the City star said:

I gave a speech recently,...

Tracy Baim delivering newspapers in the Chicago Pride Parade, 1987.

For all media companies, innovation is key to better serving a sophisticated audience of web-smart early adopters. Alternative or "niche" media, including LGBT newspapers, are not immune to the dual tsunamis of...

Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, is not the only person hiding prejudice in the heavy robes of religion, but he is a powerful leader in the Catholic Church, and therefore his words have more meaning and power than your average street preacher or member of the church choir.

In...

When I first started working in gay media at age 21 in 1984, I felt like I was dropped into the middle of a war zone. At the time, there were fewer than 100 diagnosed AIDS...

Despite decades of progress on LGBT rights, there continue to be bullying-related suicides among our youth, including 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer; attacks on our people, including 19-year-old Marcellus Andrews, of Waterloo, Iowa; and sports figures like hockey player Wayne Simmonds who just naturally spew anti-gay...

Even if you wanted to boycott the entire Rupert Murdoch News Corporation empire, you'd have a hard time connecting all the dots across all his media properties. Just like the Koch brothers, the tentacles of Murdoch's reach are far and wide. And Murdoch's businesses also represent a schizophrenia like none...

The Pentagon is expected to certify the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell today. It is exactly seven months from the date Obama signed the bill into law on December 22, 2010.

Sixty days from the certification, or possibly on Sept. 20, 2011 (it depends on if all parties certify...

In the nearly 40 years since its passage in 1972, Title IX has been consistently under fire from a wide range of critics.

Like the Equal Rights Amendment, it uses simple language to level the playing field for women and girls:

"No person in the...

Lakeview's Boystown only started to be known as a gay destination in the early 1980s, when more gay bars and businesses opened along Halsted. The big problem at that time was "straight" young men coming into the area to target the "fags." The targets were not even always gay, they...

Mr. President, I have come to terms with your rules of engagement on LGBT issues. I have decided to tune out your well-written and dramatically spoken words. Instead, I will focus on your actions.

Otherwise, I think I would get whiplash.

The last few weeks have been like...

We know that the original signers of the Declaration of Independence didn't really live by their own words. Very few people in this country's early years actually had the full rights of citizenship. But those forefathers had a dream, and that dream has been slowly fulfilled in the more than...

While entering the institution of marriage voluntarily seems to be losing its luster amongst opposite-sex couples -- many same-sex couples are red-hot for equal access to it, given its germane economic benefits.

President Obama, in a speech to LGBT donors in New York June 23, spoke of supporting...