Gay, Straight, Black, White, Marriage is a Civil Right Georgetown Independent (subscription)

Mikaela Sutherland Dunitz

In 1961, less than 50 years ago, President-elect Barack Obama's parents could not have married in half of the United States of America.

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Did Aids change America? BBC News

More than 500,000 people have died from Aids-related illnesses in the US in the last 27 years - but has Aids really changed the country?

The actor Paul Michael Glaser, who presents a Radio 2 documentary on the subject on Tuesday, has no doubt it has had a tremendous impact at a personal level.

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Indiana Proposed Gay-Marriage Ban Will Be Reworded

Backers of a constitutional ban on gay marriage plan to reintroduce the proposal in next year's legislature, but in a slightly revised form.

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' I was just another sick man waiting to die.”

Waiting to die

The BBC is following the lives of seven people from a community in Lesotho, as they struggle to live with the HIV crisis.

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Myanmar refugees reinvigorate Tenn. church weakened by Anti-Gay Schism

By Bob Smietana, The (Nashville) Tennessean SMYRNA, Tenn. — In the rows of spinach and collard greens behind All Saints Episcopal Church, a quiet resurrection is underway.

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Renewingactivism by gays: Opposition to Prop 8 may have the ironic effect of revitalizing the movement.

The unexpectedly large and boisterous crowd that rallied against California's Proposition 8 at Philadelphia City Hall on a recent Saturday marked a turning point for the gay community.

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Fired HR admin sues over firing for claimg LGBT rights "cannot be compared to civil rights"

A former University of Toledo administrator who was fired after writing a column for a local publication is suing the university.

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Advocates, officials mark World AIDS Day

AUGUSTA -- HIV and AIDS are prevalent in Maine, according to the Maine AIDS Alliance. Attacking the problem will require leadership and doing more with fewer state resources.

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Helping people with STDs contact partners by e-card

Today marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day and one new tool to help slow this epidemic is an Internet-based service called inSPOT.

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S.F. AIDS Ward 86 - 25 years of saving lives

In the corridors of Ward 86, he's known as Patient Zero - the man willing to subject himself to any new medical trial that might help solve the riddle of HIV.

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