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News
Op-Ed: GOP’s New Strategy: Use Tok Tok Falsehoods to Target LGBT Nonprofits Federal Funding
Every LGBT nonprofit in the nation should take note of something that happened last week and put it on their radar screen, as it very likely will put them under…
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The dark early days of AIDS
Watching “The Dallas Buyers Club” on the big screen this past week, the new film about the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had me recalling those dark days when…
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Columns
This election, it’s about taxes and jobs for the LGBT community
Could you imagine a Jew or Catholic voting for a candidate who was opposed to Catholics marrying Jews, or interracial marriage? Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says marriage is for…
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Commentary: That human journalistic flaw
The night before the president’s statement on same-sex marriage, I was honored to be the keynote speaker at Drexel University’s gay pride celebration. After my talk, someone asked whether I…
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Israel, the Gays and Equality Forum
With Equality Forum in Philadelphia poised to honor Israel this May, several progressive blogs have denounced the organization and suggested the honor be withdrawn. Their argument is easy to appreciate:…
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An Affair to Remember
Walt Whitman, best known as the father of modern poetry and American poetry, was also the longtime lover of Peter Doyle, son of a blacksmith, a former Rebel soldier who…
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Walter Cronkite … Off the Record
Mark Segal met Walter Cronkite when he disrupted the live broadcast of the CBS Evening News in December 1973 by holding a sign in front of Cronkite which read “Gays…
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Red Ribbons and Gold Ribbons
Elton John’s friendship with young Ryan White, who succumbed to AIDS in 1990, was only the beginning. Eighteen World AIDS Days later, the Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised more…
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Obama Talks, McCain Balks
In this election season, the Gay History Project attempted to interview both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president—just as we attempted to interview the top two candidates for the…
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