Violence Is No Stranger To The LGBT Community
by David Mixner This essay first appeared on http://www.Towleroad.com Not since June 24, 1973 when a madman fire-bombed the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans [...]
Dear Jody: Looking for ways to break free of cheating boyfriend
Q: I don't know why I put up with my partner, but I guess that it is because I love him. But my love is wearing thin. Let me tell you why: "Gerald" and I have [...]
The Gay Moralist: Sadness, not Schadenfreude, for Haggard
By John Corvino A few weeks ago I was in Ripon, Wis., for a same-sex marriage debate with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family, when the Ted Haggard story [...]
Transmissions: No resigning to violence
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith You've heard me talk about it before, and it's just as likely that if you did not hear it from me, you heard it from others. [...]
We need to strengthen our organizations, not tear them down!
by Howard Israel and Henry Grix The enemies of the LGBT community are so many, so well organized and so amply funded that our own LGBT organizations need all [...]
Kudos for PFLAG tribute
Heartfelt thanks to Sean Kosofsky for his beautifully written tribute to PFLAG. As a PFLAG mom and co-president of PFLAG North Jersey, I was overjoyed to read [...]
Ruth Ellis spoke for truth, love
Enough, name calling and cruel rhetoric. Recently the name of Ruth Ellis has been called forth in these pages. I write to say that I knew Ruth Ellis and I know [...]
Thompson welcomes all at Affirmations
I have been a volunteer at Affirmations for eight years and I have known Leslie Thompson since the first day she came to Affirmations. Leslie has done a [...]
Creep of the Week: Tim Wildmon
Happy Pride Month, everybody! Or as right-wingers like to call it, End Times. As you may know, President Obama has once again issued an official proclamation [...]
From Protest to Politics
By Stephanie White In 1965, gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin wrote an essay that appeared in the February issue of Commentary Magazine, "From Protest to [...]
Parting Glances: Time Marches On. Annoyingly...
After five years of faithful, heavy-duty service, the battery in my expensive gift Shinola wristwatch just stopped on me. I should have known it was going to [...]
