More than 75 years after they were murdered in the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecution were remembered with “stumbling stones” laid in Amsterdam this week. The Netherlands has about 8,500 Stolpersteine, (stumbling stones), the brass memorial plaques embedded…
James Catherwood Hormel, a philanthropist and the first openly LGBT person to represent the United States as an ambassador, died in a San Francisco hospital Friday, August 13, with his husband at his side and his favorite Beethoven concerto playing. He was…
Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ candidates ran for office last year in what was widely termed a “rainbow wave,” resulting in historic gains in political representation across the country. But despite this progress, LGBTQ+ candidates still face significant bias from voters, a new…
For the last four years, the two of us have traveled the world as digital nomads, living in twelve different countries for at least a month, and visiting another eighteen along the way. How in the world can we afford to…
A federal court has ruled that it is perfectly fine for a Catholic Indiana school to fire a teacher simply because she is in a same-sex marriage. Lynn Starkey had taught and worked as a guidance counsellor at Roncalli High School…
Colonial Williamsburg was a lot queerer than we were led to believe, and new efforts are underway to make sure this ignorance of LGBTQ+ contributions to American history is soon a thing of the past. The popular living museum and…
A federal judge just ruled that a Catholic hospital network can’t be forced to comply with the entire section of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) that bans health care providers from discriminating based on sex – including against…
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