GetEQUAL, the LGBTQ activists who repeatedly brought you direct actions and nonviolent civil disobedience, like chaining themselves to the White House fence, again, and again, are...
The real outrage is that at a time when anti-gay name-calling and bullying are leading causes of LGBTQ teen suicide, saying “fag” enables and encourages millions...
Since November, 2008, just days after Prop 8 passed, The New Civil Rights Movement has covered many of the issues impacting the LGBTQ community, from marriage...
What is Gaypon, the LGBT alternative to Groupon that offers not only discounts but donates to charities? Our exclusive interview with Gaypon co-founder Robert Graham. Gaypon,...
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 43 years ago today in Memphis where he was working in support of labor rights for sanitation workers. King, an African-American...
ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which has lived in Congress in one form or another since 1974, was again supposed to be reintroduced in Congress today...
Last week marked the coming out party for one of the world’s newest heads of state. Baburam Bhattarai, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Nepal, visited New...
Throughout the year in the United States, an estimated two million children will be homeless, over three million will be living without either of their parents....
Master strategist Bayard Rustin was Martin Luther King Jr.’s organizer for the 1963 March on Washington, but because he was gay, he has been hidden from...
Last year, in an historic tribute to gay pride month, Seattle’s iconic Space Needle flew the gay pride flag. This year they declined — and met...
Happy Ground Hog Day! Today is the day the American people across the country — suffering from one of the harshest winters in memory — have...
President Obama’s State of the Union address last night — all sixty-two minutes, all 6820 words — was met with expected mixed success. Most on the...
Today I’m responding to a few emails we’ve recently received. You’re always welcome to email me or leave a comment in the contact section. And please...
Imagine if we built coalitions from advocates of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights, women’s reproductive choice, health care and immigration reform, and workers’ rights groups…...
The first time I ever heard the word “lesbian” spoken aloud in public was at Indiana State University in 1973 by the famous feminist Flo Kennedy, who...