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...
For his anti-gay speech in a German studies class, a Texas high school student, Dakota Ary, a freshman at Fort Worth’s Western Hills High School, got detention,...
Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry on August 6 co-hosted the oxymoronic “non-denominational, apolitical Christian prayer meeting,” known as “The Response,” with his million-dollar financial supporter, the American...
Last week, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner announced he would in fact spend your tax dollars to hire private lawyers to defend DOMA, the...
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...
    THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 19, 2011  Remarks of President Barack Obama “A Moment of Opportunity†U.S....
Editor’s note: This guest post by actor and musician David W. Ross (photo, below) (Quinceañera/Bad Boys Inc) explores the path that led him to want to...
United We Win: Memorial Day Weekend At The New Civil Rights Movement  This Memorial Day weekend, we’re offering a trip down memory lane — memory lane, if you’re old...
Memorial Day Weekend 2011  Memorial Day brings both fond and forlorn feelings to many across the nation. Traditionally, since the Civil War, Memorial Day marked a...
Editor’s note: This guest post by Scott Wooledge was originally published at Daily Kos and is published here with his permission. Scott Wooledge writes at the...
Tens of thousands of readers of The New Civil Rights Movement over the weekend read, “UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series today of articles titled, “Election Results.” Stay tuned. Four of the LGBT community’s leadership organizations, The National...
Editor’s note: This is the second in our month-long series, “The Out October Project,” designed to “help bring realization into people’s lives that there are others...
Editor’s note: A wonderful reader, Julia Garbowski, contacted me via Twitter to tell me that April is National Poetry Month. She wanted to know how I...
Wrong Fight At The Wrong Time In The Wrong Place Surrounded By The Wrong People Editorial note: I published this piece on Tax Day, 2009, under...