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  • Major League Baseball adds protection for its gay players

    “Non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation were added to Article XV.” A line from Major League Baseball’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement, officially protecting gay baseball...

  • Outspoken: Thanksgiving Foods

    What Thanksgiving foods do you love? And where did you spend your Thanksgiving? We'd love to know! Click here to take

  • Don’t drink the water in Peru … unless you want to be gay!

    “Unfortunately strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality.“ Huarmey Mayor Jose Benitez...

  • Activists Picket MPD and Prosecutors

    More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...

  • Vigil Honors Lost Transgender Lives

    Following a year that saw a spike in reported anti-transgender attacks, the Washington-area LGBT community held a vigil at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington,...

  • Straight Sister of the LGBT Movement

    At first glance, Sharon Lettman-Hicks doesn't seem like your typical LGBT activist. For starters, she's a straight woman. She's married to a military husband. She...

  • SLDN Takes Aim at DOMA

    On Monday, lawyers for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network took the next step in their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of unequal spousal benefits granted to servicemembers...

  • News Briefs: Oregon On Hold with Marriage

    Oregon holds off on 2012 marriage ballot measure Marriage activists in Oregon have announced they will not continue their campaign effort to legalize marriage between...

  • In Harm's Way

    For a month, Frank Mugisha is out of Uganda. In late October, he arrived in Norway, where he received the Rafto Prize on behalf of...

  • Good Bad Girl

    Rihanna is a bad, bad girl. At least that's what she has noted on several occasions since her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad, released...

  • Jersey Score

    Am I in the right theater? That's what you might wonder as Jersey Boys opens when an African-American performer launches into a hip-hop number. In...

  • Broadway Carols

    ''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...

  • Puppet Masters

    Nostalgia's a funny thing. It nags us when we least expect it, triggered by a smell or a phrase or some odd sensation that's burrowed...

  • Horoscope

    Heavenly Round-Up: You've circled the block on your tricycle so many times you're getting mondo frequent rider miles stacked up. You're torn between enthusiasm for...

  • What Ronnie Kroell’s mother said when he told her he was doing Playgirl

    “The whole negotiation process with Playgirl took about six months, and I did a lot of soul-searching and asked my mentors to see what they...

  • Who says coffee isn’t gay?

    “From Facebook fans to emails from around the world, we are humbled by the connection our customers make with Gay Coffee every day. For me,...

  • Review: LMFAO party rocks through town

    Is LMFAO a fad? Well, if the dance-rap crew that goes by the Internet acronym doesn’t prove to have staying power, it’s at least taking...

  • Abs on a plane

    If the sexy Wilson Cruz looks a little flabby the next time you see him, complain to the Transportation Safety Administration. According to the gay...

  • Socarides, Eleveld Leaving Equality Matters; Signorile Joins HuffPo

    This morning, Richard Socarides, the president of Equality Matters over the past year since Media Matters announced its creation, announced that he is leaving the...

  • Win for Baltimore Police

    Lambda Legal announced today that Baltimore County must grant equal employment benefits to same-sex couples as a result of a binding arbitration decision. That decision...