One of my few hard and fast rules of life is ''Always bring a book.'' It fills up all those interstitial moments in life spent...
There are a couple companies I avoid simply because my polite letters regarding dreadful customer service went unanswered. Although I steer clear, I've never asked...
As the fight for marriage equality continues in the states, the forces of social reaction redouble their efforts to brazen their way past the fact...
Following last week's big win on marriage in the Supreme Court, gays and lesbians across the country can be excused for indulging in a victory...
Last week was an unforgettable moment for our movement, our country, and the pursuit of justice. We witnessed history – history made possible by the...
It's not often you get to see a wave of joy wash across the Internet, so the first few minutes after the Supreme Court announced...
I am an American. I speak and write English. I've gone to American schools, grown up with American friends, and pledged allegiance to the American...
We all have our rhetorical tics and tricks. For example, mine include the excessive use of clauses such as ''however,'' ''actually'' and ''for example.'' I...
When some of us say the LGBT movement has reached a turning point, others object. We are not finished, they say, confusing ''turning point'' for...
I am originally from Usulután, El Salvador, where I founded Mi Nueva Familia, a working group for fellow transgender women living with HIV. Almost four...
For last year's Capital Pride Parade, I brought along my 12-year-old nephew. So in the interest of equality, this year I brought along my 12-year-old...
As a former Floridian, I went into the Capital Pride weekend feeling particularly proud of Hillsborough County, Fla. On Wednesday, June 5, the seven-member Board...
All's fair in love and war and, increasingly, politics. That's not an endorsement of, say, the current Republican political strategy of just making things up...
When the Illinois marriage-equality bill was not brought up for a vote on May 31, anti-gay obsessives like Brian Brown of National Organization for Marriage...
France is such a strange country. I don't say that from first-hand experience of strolling the streets of Paris — my only brief time there...