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Andrew McIntosh, who spoke this year in Fresno about his coming out experience as a college athlete, has made it onto OUT Magazine’s "Out 100" list for 2010… Welcome to the Out 100 List for 2010 The theme of the 2010 Out 100 portfolio is “celebration.” In a year marked by battles won and lost, […]

Although it’s a small group, composed of 78 children raised in homes with two lesbian parents, the Williams Institute has found that within their study over the last 24 years, there has been ZERO physical or sexual abuse among the children.   Within the regular population, 26 percent of American adolescents report physical abuse and

There seems to be no end. In a society purporting to be more advanced, more forward thinking, even in the face of restricted civil rights for millions of Americans, stories of suicide keep coming… Over the weekend another teen suicide, resulting from bullying, has occurred. In Pennsylvania, freshman Brandon Bitner, 14, of Mount Pleasant Mills,

Justice rears its head once in a while, as it has done now, in the case of Andrew Shirvell, the assistant state attorney general in Michigan. Shirvell was very deservedly fired on Monday. If you missed the bizarre story, Shirvell is infamous for the stalking and harassment of Chris Armstrong, a student at the University

  After an online signature campaign collected more than 250,000 signatures, it looks like Keith Olbermann is headed back to his MSNBC show starting Tuesday, November 8th. The entire incident stemmed from the revelation that Olbermann was suspended due to political contributions he made which were against the policy of the network. This, despite the

  Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson, has announced that he will retire in 2013, a decision based on the threats he and his family have received since his consecration  as the first openly gay bishop in 2003. The strain on him and his family has reached a breaking point, and he can no longer accept the

With all that’s happened recently regarding bullying and teen suicides, it’s important to share our experiences with others. We all know that the teen years are the hardest for LGBT people, but we also know, as Dan Savage’s brilliant campaign has proven, "it gets better". That’s something we need to keep reinforcing with LGBT teens.

According to their attorneys, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, the Rutgers students who secretly spied on Tyler Clementi and a male friend in his dorm room, resulting in Clementi committing suicide, were the only ones who saw the video, and only for a couple of minutes. It’s claimed that they saw Clementi and the man

Well, here we go again. Another public apology from someone claiming that they didn’t mean what they said and that they aren’t the way people are painting them. A HUGE problem with today’s society is that because it’s so easy to get caught being hateful, or bigoted, or just plain stupid, we’ve created this "public