Few celebrations match the magnitude, majesty and simplicity of the 4th of July. Traveling the world, experiencing the pride of other nations, and still, I am...
The tiny city of Torrington, Connecticut, a former mill town in sleepy — and very traditional — upstate Connecticut, runs for about 40 square miles by the...
President Obama today spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (you know, those folks who are skirting the law regarding international donations to fund elections and...
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...
Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev, (photo, above,) touring the United States to discuss the state of LGBT equality in Russia, spoke Tuesday evening at Columbia University...
Artist Juan Carlos Cabrera-Ramirez has all too acute an understanding of how anti-gay domestic violence inside a single house can be a reflection of anti-gay domestic violence, so to speak, on...
 1 Troy Anthony Davis is dead, executed by the state of Georgia, September 21, 2011 at 10:00 pm. Ten days later, now that other stories...
In June 2005, Steve Jobs, now, Chairman of Apple, Inc., delivered the commencement address at Stanford University. Jobs discusses his decision to drop out of college,...
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...
Editor’s note: The National Prayer Breakfast was the focus of much of the day, but there were other issues we’re working on, like the vigil for...
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...
To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the...
Mitch Daniels, the current Republican Governor of Indiana, announced Sunday morning he will not run for President in 2012. The 62 year-old Presbyterian is best-known for...
In the past six months, the “brave new world” of the 21st century has erupted  into massive and immediate political, social, economic, and environmental change, foisting...
    THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 19, 2011  Remarks of President Barack Obama “A Moment of Opportunity†U.S....