The Chicago school system is trying to resolve the issue of harassment and violence toward gay students by opening a “gay-friendly” high school. The curriculum would not differ from other schools, but would incorporate lessons about sexual identity in history and literature classes. Much like the The Harvey Milk High School in New York City, the […]
Today marks the 10th anniversary of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard’s death, the young gay man that lost his life after being violently beaten and left for dead on the side of a remote Wyoming road.
The heinous murder shocked and saddened the nation, but a decade later, federal law still fails to recognize hate crimes based on […]
One of the nation’s first openly gay legislators, Allan H. Spear, died on Saturday of complications following heart surgery. He was 71.
The Minnesota state Senate president, a civil rights champion, historian and one of the first openly gay state legislators in the country, was the first non-attorney to lead the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was […]
The National Stonewall Democrats condemned comments Sara Palin made during a recent interview with Katie Couric.
The Republican Vice Presidential nominee stated that homosexuality is a “choice” and went on to add that one of her best friends is gay. “She is one of my best friends,” she said. “Who happen to have made a choice […]
Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have became the most recent celebrities to donate money to help keep marriage equality alive in California.
Spielberg and Capshaw matched Brad Pitt’s donation of $100,000 to the “No on 8″ campaign, which will fight against the ballot initiative that aims to make all same sex marriages in the state unconstitutional.
Proposition […]
Just two months after she was able to legally marry her long time partner, lesbian rights pioneer, Del Martin passed away at the age of 87.
Martin was an author and co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, a political organization that fought for lesbian rights. She had been with her partner Phyllis Lyon, for nearly 60 […]
The California Supreme Court has made another landmark vote in favor of LGBT rights. On Monday the judges voted unanimously that doctors who have religious objections to caring for gay and lesbian patients must provide them with treatment or find another colleague in their office who will.
Plaintiff Guadalupe Benitez brought the suit against a San […]
Suspect Jim Adkisson, 58, was so upset with his inability to get a job that he took his hatred out on the parishioners of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
Adkisson walked into the church yesterday morning and began shooting during a children’s play, killing two adults and wounding seven others before being brought down by […]
An ad campaign recently launched to promote a London based gay tour operator is coming under fire from South Carolina Senator David Thomas.
Marketing agency Out Now Consulting created travel posters stating, “South Carolina is so gay.” Under the phrase is a picture of a historic South Carolina home, as well phrases boasting their gay beaches as well as […]
Fifteen year old, Saro Harvey is one of the many teens in America who have decided to come out to their family and friends before they reach high school.
Despite being voted most popular by his ninth grade class, he knows that that there are still some who do not like him. “I think I’ve dealt […]
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