Advocates for equality try to take the high road, because battling hate with hate doesn't bring progress.
By Christopher Bryant, Guest writer for Wipe Out Homophobia In 1950s Britain, when it was a punishable offence to be homosexual, a slang called Polari flourished. Polari provided a way for gay people to talk to each other in code. If you wanted to say to a friend, for…
"A heterosexual who has sex with different partners every week can donate blood but I, a gay man, someone who has been in a monogamous relationship for the last 22 years, cannot because I have a husband." - Robin Day If you were on your death bed, dying from…
Circumcision (the removal of some or all of the foreskin of a male's penis) made headlines again in Cologne, Germany this week where a court ruled it illegal to circumcise an infant for religious reasons regardless of parental consent. This new law was apparently brought on by the case…
Gender’s a beast, I’m telling you. Not so much all on its own, but because of how society treats it. To most people, it’s binary, fixed, and tied to what your genitals look like. I deliberately said “what your genitals look like“ instead of “your sex“. Most people believe…
I became aware of the “Stonewall Riots” through Pride marches and protests while growing up in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.
For LGBT people in their fifties and up, the future is shorter, and the odds for a marked improvement in their lives accordingly smaller.
In response to this hate mail, I decided to address this issue by taking a humorous and lighthearted approach to replies.
If there was one person who wasn't shocked about James's death, it was James, who stated more than once on his blog about his failure to “hang onto sobriety”...
Now President of BiNet USA, Faith has seen an improvement in the inclusion of bisexuals and African Americans in the LGBT movement.