Fifty years ago this past weekend, the Freedom Riders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which included student leaders Diane Nash and John Lewis, decided...
One night in America, the death penalty was hard at work, and two men — Troy Davis and Lawrence Russell Brewer — were put to death...
The NYPD has an ace in the hole when it comes to spreading anti-Occupy Wall Street propaganda: Local Fox TV station WNYW-TVÂ news anchor Greg Kelly —...
HRC, the Human Rights Campaign, is an ardent supporter of marriage equality for same-sex couples. But now, it seems, HRC is supporting marriage equality so both...
November 15, 2010, from left: Dan Fotou, Army Staff Sergeant Miriam Ben-Shalom, Michael Bedwell, Army Specialist Rob Smith, Transgender Navy Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Roman Catholic...
You must watch this preview of PBS’s “Out In America,” which premieres tonight on many — but not all — PBS stations. Your assignment: (1) check...
We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past few months here highlighting gay teen suicides, but tonight we’re sharing with you the suicide of...
“Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama†is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership...
My friend Dan Choi uttered a truly despicable analogy of Harry Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate, last week by likening him to a “pussy” that...
“Stories from the Frontlines: Letters to President Barack Obama†is a new media campaign launched to underscore the urgent need for congressional action and presidential leadership...
Embattled Governor Should Resign. Who’s Going To Tell Him? The New York Times’ Clyde Haberman, who celebrates his thirty-third anniversary at that paper this year, writes...
After fending off a recently-reported bombshell rumor, New York’s Governor David Paterson, the man who succeeded Eliot Spitzer after a sex-scandal resignation, has decided to not...
Lt. Dan Choi, the Iraq war veteran, Arab linguist, and West Point grad turned “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal activist, today got what he had said...
Dan Choi gave Majority Leader Harry Reid his West Point ring to hold until DADT was repealed. Today he got it back. For those who don’t...
From its long history of slavery, suppression of women’s suffrage, and black and poor voter-disenfranchisement, to the George Rekers rentboy scandal, to last week’s racist epithets...