This post is the twelfth in a series of Spilled Milk columns by Emmy Award-winning writer and producer William Lucas Walker that chronicle his journey through parenthood. Spilled Milk, which originates in The...
Two LGBT icons, Sally Ride and Bayard Rustin, are among the sixteen American heroes whom President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The...
Pat Robertson says that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger “set the stage for Adolph Hitler,” and accuses the “evil” organization of “genocide.” The televangelist made his...
A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (image, above, 1959) has written poetry, translations, fiction, theater, art criticism,...
To this day, few know that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s right hand man, the architect of the March on Washington, was openly-gay African-American Bayard Rustin. To...
The U.S. Supreme Court has just announced it has agreed to hear a case that challenges the constitutionality of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The...
“I worked hard and sacrificed to get what I get,  Ladies, it ain’t easy being independent.†– Destiny’s Child, Independent Women 1 The election is days...
“God will never be for homosexual marriages. God is against anybody who is for homosexual marriages.” Perhaps the most-damning event in the history of the National Organization For...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre claims that Jovan Belcher‘s girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, would be alive today if she only had...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};Stuart Wilber and John Breitweiser got married today, the first day the state of Washington allowed same-sex couples to enter into the institution...
Felipe Matos on Monday became GetEQUAL‘s new Field Director. Matos, who says he is both queer and undocumented, is perhaps in a unique position to assess and act...
Billy Graham, the 93-year old evangelical Christian televangelist pioneer who first came to prominence during the Harry S. Truman administration more than six decades ago, today...
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends†— Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever I need...
BE IT PROCLAIMEDÂ BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Council hereby proclaim March 17, 2012 to be LGBT Civil Rights Equality Awareness...
 They marched forward, dignified and determined, willing to put it all on the line for equality. “I am somebody!†The crowd around them full of...