Real Strategies to End Bullying
It's October and students all across New York are sharpening their pencils and starting another school year. For most students, the beginning of the year brings the excitement of reuniting with...
View ArticleDouglas MacKinnon Calls For Southern U.S. To Secede As Anti-Gay Nation Called...
A former Reagan administration aide is calling for southern U.S. states to secede from the nation over that region's more conservative stance on same-sex marriage and other rights pertaining to the...
View ArticleWhere Are The American Boy Dolls?
“Where are the American Boy dolls?” my 8-year-old son asked me. We were at the sprawling American Girl Place store in Chicago, that mecca for big and little girls. We had just finished walking through...
View ArticleLesbians, Finger Exercises, and Her Piano
Video camera in hand, Donna Deitch of Desert Hearts fame asked my outspoken 95-year-old grandmother, "Granny, did you ever think of being with a woman?" "No, I didn't know about such things," Granny...
View ArticleUtah Supreme Court Lifts Hold On Same-Sex Adoptions
Utah's Supreme Court lifted its stay on same-sex adoptions Thursday, two weeks after the state dropped its legal fight over the issue. In May, the state's high court placed a hold on several district...
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The Second Halloween My Boy Wanted to Be a Girl
You'd think that by the time my son Harry turned 4 years old in 1994, I would have learned how to handle Halloween. A guilt ghoul swallowed me whole the first time my boy wanted to go trick-or-treating...
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Seriously?! Aunt Asks Gay Nephew If She Can Call Him 'Albert the F*****'
I'm From Driftwood is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit archive for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer stories. New stories are posted on the site every Wednesday. Overall, Albert Eisenberg had a...
View ArticleStudent Who Stood Up To Don Young Says He Was Shocked By Homophobic Remark
WASHINGTON -- An Alaska high school student said he and his classmates were stunned by Rep. Don Young's (R-Alaska) insensitive comments during a school assembly Tuesday and thinks the congressman’s...
View ArticleHouston Mayor: Texas Wouldn't Give My Daughter A Driver's License Because She...
WASHINGTON -- Houston Mayor Annise Parker (D) announced Thursday that the Texas Department of Public Safety had barred her daughter from taking a driving test because the daughter has two moms. Parker,...
View ArticleEllen DeGeneres Stages World Series 'Hunk-A-Thon' To Determine Which Team...
Ellen DeGeneres kicked off the World Series this week by offering up a "super-scientific" way to predict whether the Kansas City Royals or the San Francisco Giants will ultimately emerge victorious....
View ArticleEvangelical Ethicist David Gushee Is Now Pro-LGBT. Here's Why It Matters.
NEW YORK (RNS) At a moment when American churches and politicians are warring over gay rights and same-sex marriage, each side needs every soldier it can muster. Conservatives are about to learn that...
View ArticleArmy Biased Against Transgender Worker, Federal Investigation Finds
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A federal investigation has found that Army officials discriminated against a transgender employee who underwent a sex change while working at an Alabama installation. The...
View Article5 Reasons the LGBT Community Should Not Sit Out This Election
With only a week and a half to go, the word among political pundits is that most progressive voters will stay home on November 4th. While midterm elections are not as sexy as the ones in which we get...
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15 Questions: Designer Marco Marco
photo credit: Magnus Hastings Marco Marco's "Collection Three" show proved to be an even more perfectly outrageous spectacle than his last showing. That alone was no small feat, but with 37 looks...
View ArticleMacedonia Gay Rights Advocates Injured In Cafe Attack
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Police say about 30 people wearing masks and throwing rocks and bottles have attacked members of a gay rights activist group in Macedonia, wounding two of them. Friday's...
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DIY Jimmy Fallon 'Ew!' Costumes Will Make You Seriously Freakin' Flip
Finally there's a DIY costume that's definitely not "ew!" A new music video from the "Tonight Show," featuring Sara, aka Jimmy Fallon, and Mir.i.am, aka Will.i.am, is blowing up, and the only thing...
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Redefining Wedding Traditions? Yes. Redefining Marriage? No.
Photo by Arielle Doneson Photography Someone recently asked me how I feel about "redefining marriage." It was a loaded question, he admitted, implying that he was showing his hand as someone who does...
View Article1,000 Strong for Marriage Equality at the ERLC Conference
This week, hundreds of evangelical Christians will converge on Nashville, Tennessee to attend a conference organized by the Southern Baptist Convention in opposition to marriage equality. I'll be there...
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The Maverick Genius of John R. Gordon
John R. Gordon (image courtesy of Team Angelica Press) The maverick genius of John R. Gordon lies in the fact that he does so many things so well. He is an incredibly gifted novelist and playwright and...
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Bette Warbles 'Waterfalls'
When I heard that Bette Midler was remaking TLC's "Waterfalls," one of my favorite songs from high school preschool, I really wanted to like it -- like, really, really. But then I heard it. The...
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