President Barack Obama this afternoon honored sixteen American legends with the highest award that can be given to a civilian: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Among...
Two LGBT icons, Sally Ride and Bayard Rustin, are among the sixteen American heroes whom President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The...
To this day, few know that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s right hand man, the architect of the March on Washington, was openly-gay African-American Bayard Rustin. To...
BE IT PROCLAIMEDÂ BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Council hereby proclaim March 17, 2012 to be LGBT Civil Rights Equality Awareness...
Bayard Rustin, the openly gay African American who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s right hand man responsible for a good deal of the civil rights activist’s...
Dr. Alveda King, the niece of famous civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is being called a “liar” by long-time African-American LGBT activist, author,...
Master strategist Bayard Rustin was Martin Luther King Jr.’s organizer for the 1963 March on Washington, but because he was gay, he has been hidden from...
A Courageous Defender of the Rule of Law in a State that Continues to be Plagued by its Ugly Past
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A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (image, above, 1959) has written poetry, translations, fiction, theater, art criticism,...
49 years ago today, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of the most amazing, most memorable, iconic speeches ever recorded, his “I...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};Stuart Wilber and John Breitweiser got married today, the first day the state of Washington allowed same-sex couples to enter into the institution...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s niece, the outspoken and extremely anti-gay Alveda King, in a carefully-worded statement, attacked the NAACP today for their decision to publicly...
The NAACP, America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, today announced its board of directors has decided to support officially same-sex marriage. Fresh on the heels...
The iconic Seattle Space Needle for two years flew the iconic gay pride flag for gay pride week. But not this year. Without warning, the Space...