If you don't come out, you can't complain. You can't complain about homophobic politicians who want to take away your rights. You can't complain about bigoted ministers in church. And you absolutely cannot complain about the direction of the gay and lesbian movement.

Today’s youth are continuing to test the boundaries of gender and challenging societal standards in the process.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger can impede the movement for same-sex marriage rights, says the head of the gay rights group Equality California, but he can’t do anything to defeat it. We will win.

Brandon High's popular Gay-Straight Alliance ruffles no feathers. Newsome High's startup club did - parental ones. Could it survive on campus?

A grand jury indicted the Philadelphia archdiocese in a 418-page report detailing rampant pedophilia and sexual abuse as well as decades of well planned, sinister cover-up orchestrated by two Philadelphia cardinals, (the late) John Krol and (recently retired) Anthony Bevilacqua. Krol was and Bevilacqua is an outspoken critic of homosexuality and civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

More than a decade into our liberation from legislated oppression, we are still visited by the scourge of intolerance in its most vicious form.

One has to wonder if lobbyists like Lopez and the self-righteous leaders of the Christian Right ever think about the real-life human beings—men, women and children—they so vehemently campaign against in the name of religion.

There are so many things wrong with the idea of adding an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Constitution of the United States that I can barely list them all.

‘The real debate around this witch hunt isn’t between us and the Vatican, it’s between the Vatican and the truth,’ said HRC President Joe Solmonese

This week the legislature of California became the first in the nation to pass a law establishing gay marriage. It is a sign of remarkable progress for the movement to secure equal rights for gay and lesbian couples.

While the battle for legal same-sex marriage may rage for years, it seems clear there is a general shift toward support of committed relationships between same-sex partners.

Bingham was the rugby player who died while helping thwart hijackers on United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Girl Play" was one of my favorite films this year. It was believablely lesbian, it was about adults, and it was well acted and well written.

Opponents of same-sex marriage may claim it as a victory: Ahnold terminates gay marriage in California.

With every passing day, the leaders of the Christian Right become more unhinged and increasingly violent in their rhetoric.

Although they campaign arm-in-arm for gay rights, lesbians and gay men don't always march in step.

What is a family, really?

If gay men are, as is increasingly revealed through research, natural components of the human spectrum, we must have particular gifts to offer our fellow human beings. What might those be? Let’s start a dialogue.

Anger, confusion often accompany revelation that a spouse is gay

“Reparative therapy” is based on an understanding of homosexuality that has been rejected by all the major health and mental health professions

The debate has always been that it was either all in the child's upbringing or all in the genes. But what if it's something else?

• Introduction
• Part One: Canada
• Part Two: Not just a Canadian Aberration
• Part Three: Gays versus God?

• Biblical marriage: a bad source for debate (Jan 23, 2004)
• The Bible and Same-Sex Marriage (Mar 24, 2004)
• Ten Reasons Why Christians Should Support Same-Sex Marriage (Nov 6, 2003)

• The Troubling Tone and Tactics of the Canadian Bishops (April 11, 2004)
• Same-sex marriage: a Catholic priest dissents (Feb 29, 2004)