The Stonewall Riots and me

Today is June 26th, and tomorrow is June 27th, and after midnight tomorrow night, one hour into June 28th, we will be into the forty-third anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. If you stay up one hour past midnight, it will be exactly forty-three years since Lt. Pine...

We live in a world they made

Today is Alan Turing’s one-hundredth birthday. Alan Turing contributed to the Allies winning World War II by breaking the Enigma codes that Germany used to communicate with its submarines. He had a large hand in inventing the computer that we use today and that today...

But mainly just remember

The mixed news from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, discussed here last post, and the continuing epidemic of gay teenage-suicides around the country—it’s hard to find any positive aspect of that fact—may be what caused some of us to find Gay Pride a...

Getting out in the open with our speech

Brandon K. Thorp posts on Towleroad, about President Obama proclaming Gay Pride Month: “At some point, I’m sure the novelty of seeing presidents speak this way about LGBT folk will wear off. For this writer, it hasn’t yet.” To get the same sense of...