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The 8 top gay videos of 2008
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 22 08This year, gay videos were viral.
From Keith Olbermann's surprisingly emotional take on gay marriage to the musical that made us laugh, 2008 was the year that gay news made good video.
Tis the Season: Finding a safe space for spirituality
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 22 08Tis the season to be shopping, overeating, running around like a chicken without a head and deferring sleep until the 26th of December.
Report from California: Light Up the Night
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 22 08Saturday’s Light Up the Night demonstrations were designed specifically to blend with the holiday season.
Corvino: Should we punish supporters of Prop 8?
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 19 08Marjorie Christoffersen seems like a nice enough person by all reports, including those of gay friends and acquaintances.
Rudolph: Civil unions don’t work
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 18 08Civil unions don't work, for same-sex couples or our children.
So says the New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission, which published its final report last week.
Besen: Give to our gay orgs
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 18 08This holiday season, when you throw a direct mail appeal from a gay organization in the trash, you might just be trashing that group's future.
Study: Lesbian teens at higher pregnancy risk
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 17 08(Toronto, Ontario) Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are at a higher risk of becoming pregnant or causing a pregnancy than their heterosexual peers, says a new study.
Neff: The sins of the Pope
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 15 08The United States, by ruling of the Supreme Court, did not decriminalize homosexuality until 2003.
No kidding.
Corvino: Friends with the enemy
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 12 08Glenn Stanton is a friend of mine. He’s also badly wrong about same-sex marriage, and I tell him so—frequently, publicly, and sharply.
Analysis: Gay rights in a post modern world
365 Culture and Ideas Dec 01 08(New York City) Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.
Harvey Milk Lives
365 Culture and Ideas Nov 26 08This Thanksgiving Day, at 10:55 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, it will be 30 years since a bullet exploded in Harvey Milk's brain, killing him.
Opie: American photographer, lesbian artist
365 Culture and Ideas Nov 21 08You might not realize how underrepresented the LGBT community is in museums until you see our portraits on the walls of one.
Corvino: Dems are ‘values voters,’ too
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 31 08On the eve of the election, I am pleased that my fellow Democrats have finally learned not to concede “moral values” language to the other side.
Are you a drama queen?
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 14 08Psychologist Dr. Debra Mandel has written books on everything from dumping the chump in your life to making the important distinction between your boss and your mother.
Why the Shepard murder was different
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 10 08Just before 1 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2008, it will be 10 years since the death of Matthew Shepard. There is little need to recount the details the brutal beating and death of the young man from Wyoming who became an international symbol of homophobic hate.
The book Palin wanted banned
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 08 08Rev. Howard Bess is not gay. He was not raised by gay parents and does not have gay children. Bess did not grow up with a gay family next door and his best friend was not gay.
Rudolph: Heterosexual assumptions
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 07 08Visibility is a funny thing.
Take Rachel Maddow, host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. To me, she epitomizes a second wave of out lesbians in the media, one who didn't have to come out to the public like Ellen Degeneres, Melissa Etheridge, or Rosie O'Donnell, because she has always .
Morales: An LGBT high school is not a ghetto
365 Culture and Ideas Oct 02 08If you want help settling the debate over Chicago’s proposed LGBT high school, just look 90 miles north.
LGBT History Month: 31 days of gay
365 Culture and Ideas Sep 30 08365gay and Logo are celebrating LGBT History Month! Now 14 years old, LGBT history month - originally Lesbian and Gay History Month - was started by a Missouri high school teacher, Rodney Wilson.
An American gay history timeline: 1903 - 2008
365 Culture and Ideas Sep 30 081903
On Feb. 21, New York police conduct the first recorded raid on a gay bathhouse.
1924
The Society for Human Rights in Chicago becomes the country's earliest known gay rights organization.
