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Patrick Saunders: Money matters, progress and coming out on the other side

I'll be honest – putting together our annual financial (or “Pink Dollar”) issue is a stone-cold bummer. Taxes and money matters are important, of course, but they're not thrilling. There are only so many dif...

Patrick Saunders: Privilege, Trump and signs of solidarity

Because every month is White History Month. There, now that we have that out of the way... I didn't start exploring the concept of white privilege until about six or seven years ago. Knowing what I know now,...

Patrick Saunders: My complicated relationship with God

I pray every night, but I don't know if I truly believe in God. I know that might sound odd, the idea that someone would talk to someone night after night, year after year, when they're not sure that the...

Rob Smith: Looking back on being closeted in the Army, five years after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Editor's Note: Five years ago today, the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on military service by lesbian, gays and bisexuals officially ended. To mark the anniversary, we're publishing an excerpt from "Closets, C...

Darian Aaron: America, your hands are not clean in Orlando massacre

On Sunday, June 12 at 7:17 a.m., I awoke to a frantic text message from my best friend of over twenty years informing me of a shooting at a gay club in Orlando. Not yet fully awake, the seriousness of his text ...

Rob Smith: Coming of age as a gay man in the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell army

The first two minutes of my military experience were a blur. No sooner had I gotten off the bus at Fort Benning and retrieved my luggage, as directed, and stood in front of it, I made the mistake of glancing at...

Darian Aaron: May the good ol’ South die a quick death

Back in Oct. 2015, I proudly boasted in an editorial that “our state hasn’t turned out to be as bigoted as many expected” following the June 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage equality nationwide...

Craig Washington: Scars to heal

They were dog tired that night arriving home after working the third shift at the warehouse. They laid their spent bodies down on the mattress in Anthony’s mother’s living room as they had done many times befor...

Norm Kent: The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce strikes out

Last week the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce announced a historic partnership with major league baseball. I was thrilled. Except for one detail. They gave the exclusive to Fortune Magazine, ...

Mark Segal: Calling out insensitive, anti-Semitic protest at Creating Change 2016

When I was a boy of 13, my grandmother took me to my first civil-rights demonstration to teach me about racism and social justice. She knew those issues well: Our family fled from the pogroms in Russia, others ...

Darian Aaron: An abominable truth

“But the sacred constructions of silence are futile exercises in denial. We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home.” —Essex Hemphill Can we talk? Good. This conversation couldn’t c...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Recent Wins for LGBTQ Families

LGBTQ Education Bill Passes Illinois House of Representatives

United Methodist Church to Investigate Irregularities in LGBTQ Vote

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Gay Singer Sam Smith Comes Out as Non-Binary Genderqueer

Bisexual YouTuber Lily Singh gets Late Night NBC Talk Show

Netflix Cancels ‘One Day at a Time’