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The Fight for Marriage Equality Is Far From Over. A New Book Honors the Long History That Made It Possible.
In a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under constant threat, âLove: The Heroic Story of Marriage Equalityâ arrives as both a powerful reminder and a call to action. [...]Read more about The Fight for Marriage Equality Is Far From Over. A New Book Honors the Long History That Made It Possible.
LGBTQ+ Ally Olivia Newton-John, Dead at 73, Had Hopes to 'See an End to Cancer Within My Lifetime'
The queer community is mourning the loss of LGBTQ+ advocate and ally Olivia Newton-John.In an announcement on Facebook Monday, John Easterling, the husband of [...]Read more about LGBTQ+ Ally Olivia Newton-John, Dead at 73, Had Hopes to 'See an End to Cancer Within My Lifetime'
Kal Penn Comes Out at 44: Here Are 7 Other Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life
"Harold & Kumar" actor Kal Penn, also a former White House staff member during the Obama administration, came out as gay this week, and we're more than [...]Read more about Kal Penn Comes Out at 44: Here Are 7 Other Celebrities Who Came Out Later in Life
This Artist and Historian Are Preserving Michigan LGBTQ+ History With a Comic Book About the State's First Pride March
When Merrilee Melvin, then 24, came out as lesbian to some coworkers in 1972, she didn't expect to lose her job. "I was working at a little print shop in [...]Read more about This Artist and Historian Are Preserving Michigan LGBTQ+ History With a Comic Book About the State's First Pride March
Michiganders Pete and Chasten Buttigieg Announce They're Becoming First-Time Parents
Raise a glass and make a toast: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are going to be parents! On Aug. 17, Pete Buttigieg, the [...]Read more about Michiganders Pete and Chasten Buttigieg Announce They're Becoming First-Time Parents
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George Takei 'Lampoons' Trump Administration in New House of Cats App
Pair a signature red tie, distinct blond coif and unmistakable orange hue and you get Trumpy Cat. That's the main character of actor and activist George [...]Read more about George Takei 'Lampoons' Trump Administration in New House of Cats App
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump & Mike Pence
The Trump Presidency has truly redefined "breaking news" in the most literal way. Every day there is a new harm, a new insult, a new degradation heaped onto [...]Read more about Creep of the Week: Donald Trump & Mike Pence
Bookmarks: Seeing History Queerly
BY LIZ BAUDLER Seeing History Queerly: A Review of "Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World," By Sarah Prager 259 pages Harper, [...]Read more about Bookmarks: Seeing History Queerly
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Joel Edgerton takes on ex-gay conversion in 'Boy Erased' Now that we've got a vice president who thinks so-called "gay conversion" [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
GOP Convention Preview: What LGBT Viewers Can Watch For
By Lisa Keen Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is an unattractive political choice for many voters because of his unabashed hostility toward [...]Read more about GOP Convention Preview: What LGBT Viewers Can Watch For
Presidential Primary Analysis: South Carolina and Nevada
By Lisa Keen The Christianity of various Republican presidential candidates became a focus in the South Carolina primary, implicating not only marriage but [...]Read more about Presidential Primary Analysis: South Carolina and Nevada
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Republican Presidential Debate Preview
By Lisa Keen Studies have shown that only about one-third of LGBT Americans vote Republican, but there's realistic chance a Republican will win the White [...]Read more about Republican Presidential Debate Preview
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente That Katharine Hepburn biopic is finally happening The fact that we had to have a J. Edgar Hoover movie before someone got around to a [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
George Takei's Hopeful Words For Detroit: 'More Power To You!'
George Takei isn't foreign to the alien kind. As Sulu on the original "Star Trek," he fended them off. Now, Takei's taking on a different kind of outsider â [...]Read more about George Takei's Hopeful Words For Detroit: 'More Power To You!'
Q&A: George Takei Talks Closeted Actors, Calls For Out 'Star Trek' Character
George Takei knows the power of a cat meme. Because of all things, it's the pussy that gave him a platform and set the stage for something more than just [...]Read more about Q&A: George Takei Talks Closeted Actors, Calls For Out 'Star Trek' Character
New Documentary Considers The Gay Accent And Internalized Homophobia
Have you ever worried about sounding gay? Is there even such a thing as a gay accent? And if so, should it be discouraged? These are the questions film [...]Read more about New Documentary Considers The Gay Accent And Internalized Homophobia
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Jim Parsons Michelle Rodriguez: 10% and 1% "Eventually it's going to wrinkle up and I'm not going to be able to use it. I wanted to be [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Zach Braff wishes on star Jim Parsons "Wish I Was Here" is the name of that movie Zach Braff turned to Kickstarter to fund, a move that [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
In This Season of Pride
Viewpoint Even though some cities hold their PRIDE celebrations as early as April, Philadelphia's Black Pride was held in April; June will always be the [...]Read more about In This Season of Pride
It's February: Time for Love, Marriage And Equality
It's February; love's in the air, and apparently everyone is high on the Valentine's Day Kool-Aid. You expect to be inundated with love stories, engagements [...]Read more about It's February: Time for Love, Marriage And Equality
Takei Home Pay
Across 1 Word used to stop seamen 6 Biters of Caesar's girlfriend 10 "Now!" in a hospital 14 Oscar winner Marisa 15 "Starting Over" bisexual 16 Frau's [...]Read more about Takei Home Pay
LGBT Chevy ad goes viral
Chevrolet Volt's full page ad in Between The Lines' June Pride issue has taken the blogosphere and social networks by storm, receiving praise from LGBT and [...]Read more about LGBT Chevy ad goes viral
Brad Pitt joins Dustin Lance Black's '8'
Today, The American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact announced the addition of Golden Globe-winner and Academy and Emmy Award-nominee Brad Pitt [...]Read more about Brad Pitt joins Dustin Lance Black's '8'
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Johnny Depp is going to get 'Thin,' man You can't tell anyone in Hollywood anything. It seems like, more often than not, that people in [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Hanks adds Julia Roberts and George Takei to his 'Crowne' Arguably the coolest and among the most beloved of all former original "Star [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
Deep Inside Hollywood: Anne Hathaway, George Takei, Chloe Sevigny, more...
By Romeo San Vicente Anne Hathaway begs for, then gets, role on 'Glee' Sometime an A-list actor still has to audition for a role. Sometimes the A-list actor [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood: Anne Hathaway, George Takei, Chloe Sevigny, more...
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Across 1 Dumbledore might cast one 6 Butt 9 Mixed-up fruit 14 One to ten, e.g. 15 Maugham's "Cakes and ___ " 16 Woodworker's tool 17 Playful mammal 18 [...]Read more about Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Book Marks: Travels in a Gay Nation, An Ideal for Living
by Richard Labonte "Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans," by Philip Gambone. University of Wisconsin Press, 308 pages, $26.95 paper. The [...]Read more about Book Marks: Travels in a Gay Nation, An Ideal for Living
Gender Benders
Across 1 They call balls 5 Hosp. workers 9 What comes out of your head 14 The Oscars, e.g. 15 Morales of "La Bamba" 16 Shoots in the mouth, at the dentist's [...]Read more about Gender Benders
Coming Out Day
Across 1 Worker on Broadway 5 Mystery writer Claire 10 Colette's coffee 14 NG: Devil-may-care 15 NG: President born in Hawaii 16 Fairy-tale monster 17 [...]Read more about Coming Out Day
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Jane and Mulcahy 'Give 'Em Hell' While he's currently starring as a well-endowed-but-down-on-his-luck basketball coach on HBO's "Hung," [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood
George Takei, 'Star Trek's' Sulu, marries partner
by Rex Wockner National News Briefs George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on the original "Star Trek" TV series, married his longtime partner, Brad Altman, at the [...]Read more about George Takei, 'Star Trek's' Sulu, marries partner
Ellen-Portia wedding registry's not real, Jennie Garth returns to '90210'
Billy Masters "I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia is naked, this is a lot of nakedness." â La Loren explains why she is [...]Read more about Ellen-Portia wedding registry's not real, Jennie Garth returns to '90210'
Parting Glances: Brokeback Won Ton, anyone?
Brokeback Mountain, the groundbreaking movie of same-sex sheepherder corrallin', stile jumpin', romancin' in the Montana wilderness, as of last month scored a [...]Read more about Parting Glances: Brokeback Won Ton, anyone?
Gay Games VII gets underway
CHICAGO â The heat is on â and Gay Games VII is underway, too. As the Windy City wilts under an intense heat wave, nearly 12,000 athletes representing 65 [...]Read more about Gay Games VII gets underway
