Today we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It's a time to mourn the thousands of victims of that day's unfathomable violence and the millions around the globe who have suffered in its aftermath. Children…
A message of hope from 1922 - as true today as it was when our country was first founded. William Allen White won a 1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial, "To an Anxious Friend," published in the Emporia Gazette on…
Yesterday the Washington Blade posted an article about Hilary Clinton's speech at a Pride rally. Also during her 14-minute speech, Clinton referenced the work the State Department has done in the past year to address LGBT issues overseas, including facilitating…
Let's pretend. Let's imagine that Mary hears that John is gay, and is having same-sex relationships while dating Susie. Mary tells Jane in hopes of getting the message to Susie. (Jane is a close friend of Susie's mom.) Mary believes…
I recently posted in response to a recent thread on Bilerico that addressed one person's thoughts on why it's important to expose hypocritical "Family Values" individuals. My first thought, before I addressed this particular post, was that I have family…
Exactly one week ago I was preparing for a workshop at Creating Change in Minneapolis. The session was led by Ricci Levy, Executive Director of Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and consisted of a panel and story telling exercises.Our goal was to…
By my count, I've been out for 17 years, since late winter of 1993, when I began telling my family that I had a girlfriend, and that they would be meeting her at my college graduation. I suppose I'd been…
When I was at Woodhull Freedom Foundation's National Sexual Freedom Day press conference on September 23rd I participated in a video interview project exploring what sexual freedom means to people. To me, sexual freedom means the freedom to be my whole…
Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, was fired for sexual harassment. Really? Well, no, not really. In fact, HP cleared Mr. Hurd of the harassment charge and fired him, instead, for some violation of their standard of business conduct. According to…
No - this isn't a blog post about "pooping" - although it is true that everyone does. This is actually about the Burglington County NJ Public Library ordering the removal of Amy Sonnie’s Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology,…