Last Word on The Gully
Democracy in danger. 4.3.06
Minstrel Shows
Shutting down one, applauding another in New York.
NYC's Mugabe Boosters
Zimbabwe Under Mugabe 4.3.06
State of Black Union: Disappointing
Silence on queers, AIDS, and the inordinate power of Black churches. 4.3.06
Warsaw's "Le Madame" Shut Down
Cops storm queer, countercultural club. 4.3.06
New Anti-Gay Regime in Poland
Catholic ultra-conservatives bash their way to victory. (11-10-05)
Act of Atonement
Spain apologizes to queers. (8-2-05)
Seeking Loyalty with Loyalty
Avis and Ford give back to gay consumers. (8-2-05)
Video: Paris Gay Pride 2005 
Dyke activists, trans militants and gay unions march through Montparnasse June 25. (7-8-05)
Paris Pride in Photos
Fundamentalists On the Attack
Kraft boycotted for supporting Gay Games. (6-10-05)
Letter From Paris: Jesus Over France
Immigrant evangelicals stake their claim to France. (6-3-05)
God is a GOP, Jesus a 'CRAT
Taking sides in heaven. (6-3-05)
Su Friedrich, In Brief
A filmmaker personalizing the political. (6-3-05)
Friedrich: The Odds of Recovery 
Excerpt 1: At Least We Still Had Roses
Excerpt 2: Address to Breast
Gay Media Is Back Queer press surges past mainstream in ad growth. (5-24-05)
Asian Dykes Take to Celluloid
An interview with an organizer of the upcoming First Asian Lesbian Film and Video Festival. (3-31-05)
Cosmetic Companies Compete for Gay Shelves
Ad dollars for gay men grow as quickly as a five o'clock shadow. (3-31-05)
Jamaica's Queer Obsession
Is it all that's holding the country together? (3-10-05)
Notes on
'Susan'
Would Susan Sontag have been as famous if she'd come out as a lesbian?
Doubtful. (2-19-05)
Diet Pepsi, Subway Go Gay at Super Bowl
After Janet, a kinder, gentler approach. (2-19-05)
Same-Sex Marriage Ads Dominated 2004
Anti-gay ads take the cake. (2-10-05)
Gays
Excluded From Auschwitz Commemoration
The only victims not remembered or invited. (2-3-05)
New Ukraine, Old Homophobia Will anything change now? (1-28-05)
Ukraine Primer Geography, history, and politics. (1-28-05)
Ukraine's Ancestral Literary Queers From lesbian poets to gay Socratic philosophers. (1-28-05)
Inaugural Streets
Who will be in Washington? A brief look includes queer rights focus. (1-19-05)
T-Mobile's Call Includes Gay Couples
Queer consumers are no joke. (12-22-04)
Democrats Target Gay Voters
Follow corporate trend with mixed results. (11-28-04)
Gay in India
Activists brace for a long battle. (10-18-04)
Gay in Ghana
From gay-bashings to AIDS. (6-24-04)
Study: MSM and HIV in Ghana
Researcher concludes you can't fight AIDS while ignoring gay and bisexual men.
Complete study. (6-24-04)
Research Booms on Same-Sex Couples Marriages unleash scramble. (5-28-04)
Death by Bureaucracy in Panama Treatment bungled for AIDS patients. (5-28-04)
Marriage Equality Begins in Massachusetts
Separate but equal wrong for everyone. (5-19-04)
Torture
and America
So this is us. Impact on women and queers. (5-13-04)
Gay
Russia Today
Coming out of the woods. (5-13-04)
Russian
Lesbians Rising
From the "apartment period" to the fall of the Iron Curtain. (5-13-04)
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Operation Freedom Of Choice
Hundreds of thousands march to support abortion rights and women's health
worldwide. (5-4-04)
Poland: The Case of the Stolen Gay Files
Neo-Nazi hacker suspected. (4-19-04)
Cheney For Gay Marriage?
Log Cabin Republicans use VP's statements in an antiamendment ad. (4-2-04)
Marriage Fight Energizes Queers
Republicans and Democrats beware! (3-10-04)
Wyndham and W Hotels Bed Gays
Outreach also includes women, Latinos, seniors and African-Americans. (3-10-04)
"Overt Discrimination and Maudlin Sentimentality"
The press examines Bush's demand for an amendment to ban gay marriage. (2-26-04)
Gay Marriage, The New WMD?
Bush demands Constitution be changed to ban gay marriage. Plus transcript. (2-24-04)
Same-Sex Marriage As Civil Disobedience
Upping the ante. (2-24-04)
A Historic Opinion
The first Spanish language paper in the Americas to support gay marriage. (2-22-04)
Japanese Join Gay Fray
Casio, Panasonic and Mitsubishi shoot for queer market.
(2-18-04)
The
Legacy of Al Baltrop, 1948 2004
Chronicler of New York City gay life since the 1970's.
(2-6-04)
Interview: Banishing Fear in Iran
Weblogs crack the closet door for lesbians. (1-26-04)
Salaam to
All the Women
Excerpts from a weblog by a young Iranian lesbian.
(1-26-04)
Hope for Love
in Poland?
Gay, lesbian movement grows despite far-right surge.
(1-12-04)
Poland's Female Trouble
Violence, prostitution and trafficking soar. (1-12-04)
Commercial Closet
IBM: Beyond Gay Vague
Big Blue's first overtly gay ad hits magazines. (1-5-04)
HIV Erupts in Russia
Part 1:
An epidemic with a young face
Teenage girls and street children hit hard. (12-15-03)
HIV Erupts in Russia
Part 2:
Putin's Silence
Widespread ignorance and stigma, plus lack of resources.
(12-15-03)
The Iranian Closet
When your family would rather see you dead than gay. (11-20-03)
Gay Dads Fashionable
From Chereskin to IKEA, where, "my daddies are also a set." (11-13-03)
Jamaica: Queer in a Culture of Violence
Cops are deadly, politicians corrupt, the people poor, but musicians sing, "Kill the fags, burn the sissies." (11-7-03)
Jamaica: Accounts of Anti-gay Violence
Lesbians and gay men describe attacks, murder, and harassment. (11-7-03)
Life and Death in Queer Korea
Part 4: Gender Traitors
Gay men are lower than second-class citizens: women. (10-30-03)
Commercial Closet
A Blackened Eye for Queer Guys
Bravo rejects commercials courting randy gays. (10-1-03)
Commercial Closet
Avis Courts Gay Market
Puts domestic partners in the driver's seat.
(9-11-03)
Brazil's AIDS Model: A Global Blueprint?
Not as easy as it looks. (9-4-03)
Gay Rights Dawn in Ghana
Faced with prison or blackmail, queers begin to organize. (8-27-03)
Black Gay Leadership Group Vanishes
Americans mark the 1963 March on Washington, as the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum dies. (8-21-03)
Commercial Closet
Del Monte Pounces on Gay Pets
"Gay people have a very emotional connection with their pets." (8-21-03)
Gay Bishop Roils Anglican Unity
Can a schism be avoided? (8-14-03)
Argentina
Neither Man, Nor Woman: Transgender
In Spanish. Activist Lohana Berkins talks about the desire that goes beyond the physical. (8-8-03)
English transcript with photos
Caribbean AIDS Outreach Hampered by Homophobia
Paradise for gay tourists, for locals, a closet. (7-31-03)
Commercial Closet
EarthLink Ups Its Queer Connection
Gays seen as more high tech. (7-31-03)
Guatemala's Dykes Dig in Their Heels
Violence won't stop lesbian organizing. (7-25-03)
Commercial Closet
Orbitz Travels to Gay Cable TV
A gay twist to reach the gay market. (7-17-03)
U.S. Dominicans and AIDS
On Miss Universe, sycophantic politicians, and the conversation that never happened. (7-10-03)
Gay Rights Supreme in U.S. High Court
Biggest battle now in the church. (7-3-03)
Video: Lesbiradas Says, Enough! 
Interview with an activist fighting for lesbian rights in Guatemala.(Spanish) (6-24-03)
English transcript with photos
Skeleton in Newark's Closet
Laquetta Nelson is forcing homophobia out into the open. (6-19-03)
Erasing Sakia
Who's to blame? (6-6-03)
Life and Death in Queer Korea
Part 3: Civil Rights and Wrongs
Taking on Korean law, imagination, and Internet. (6-6-03)
America, My
Love
Uncle Sam and a gay immigrant from the land of the Islamic bomb.
(5-20-03)
Commercial Closet
Volvo Bids for Gay Families
"Some families are carefully planned. Others, you just meet along the way."
(5-15-03)
Last Human Rights Frontier: Sexual Orientation
Why it's a hot topic globally. (5-7-03)
At UN, queer human rights genie is out
And no amount of Vatican, Islamic pressure can put it back in. (5-2-03)
AIDS and Human Rights in Cuba: A Personal Memoir
Attending an AIDS conference in Havana as 70 Cuban dissidents are tried and three men executed. (5-2-03)
Cuba Fights AIDS Its Own Way
Official AIDS policy versus routine practices. (5-1-03)
Vatican, Muslim states slam queer human rights
Arm-twisting, procedural shenanigans at UN in Geneva.
(4-25-03)
Islamics Attack Rights Resolution
It's "a direct insult" to Muslims. (4-25-03)
Queer
Muslims Respond
Challenge "ill-informed campaign." (4-25-03)
How
they'll vote in Geneva
Will the queer human rights resolution live or die at the UN?
(4-25-03)
Brazil
asks UN to protect queers everywhere
Sexual orientation no excuse to violate human rights.
(4-22-03)
Action Alert: Through April 25
Text of Brazil's resolution
Iraq
War Won't Help the Homos
Western domination with a gun in one hand, a gay rights manual in the other.
(4-15-03)
The Other
Siberia
Part 1:
Gay Russia Under Church and State
Of Priests, Commissars, and Putin. (4-11-03)
Interview:
Young [Queer] Russia
Pondering "the gay question." (4-11-03)
HIV Drug Ad Spending
The impact on the gay press. (4-03-03)
Antiwar
Austin, Texas
Despite media and cops. (4-03-03)
Video: New
York Queers Say No To War
As the US bombed Baghdad on Saturday, March 22,
lgbt New Yorkers came out en
masse against the war.
(3-22-03)
Life and Death in Queer
Korea
Part 2: Homo
Koreanus
Under the official microscope. (3-20-03)
Puerto
Rico Sodomy Law Just "Tip of the Iceberg"
And Reverend Margarita Sánchez de León vows to smash it.
(3-14-03)
Law
103: A Colonial Imposition
A gift in 1902 from California to Puerto Rico, the U.S.'s new Caribbean
possession. (3-14-03)
Life and Death in Queer
Korea
Intro:
Appetite for Conformity
Isolated South Korea fears and rejects difference. (3-7-03)
Part 1: A
Queer Exorcism
How religion and violence shadow lgbt Koreans. (3-7-03)
Out For
Visibility
Mexico's dyke march first in Latin America. (2-22-03)
Commercial Closet
Gay-themed Ads at Super Bowl
Campaigns refer to sodomy, lesbian catfights, and mistaken homo identity.
(2-22-03)
Photos:
NYC protest February 15, 2003
From queer unions to former workers at the World Trade Center.
(2-22-03)
Record Antiwar Demos Worldwide
This weekend, between 8 and 12 million people worldwide demonstrated against the planned U.S. war in Iraq. LGBT people played a big part. (2-16-03)
Commercial Closet
Gay Ads in 2002 Lack Taste
Michael Wilke reviews the ad world's gay-friendly highlights and homophobic lowlights. (1-23-03)
Gay Liberation Fights AIDS Everywhere
AIDS education and activism lose their power when they ignore homophobia. (1-16-03)
Dirty Laundry in Paris
A grant of $100,000 from the City of Paris to an "Archive of Homosexuality" has triggered protests, not from the right-wing, but from lesbians and transgender activists. (1-2-03)
ARCHILESB! Petition for Lesbian Inclusion
Christopher Miles: Petition is "biased and misinformed"
Commercial Closet
Jaguar Stalks Gay Market
Ford Motor Company is the first American car maker to enter the market with a gay-specific ad. (1-2-03)
Buenos Aires Approves Gay Civil Unions
In the midst of national turmoil, the Buenos Aires city council approves Latin America's first ever gay civil union ordinance. (12-14-02)
Commercial Closet
Yahoo and Virgin Mobile Like Predatory Gays for Ads
Despite social progress in the UK, gay men are still consistently shown as a predatory, buggering lot in new commercials. (12-12-02)
Creating Community in Exile
One Face of Gay Africa: Part 2. Cheikh Traoré talks about his life in London and his struggle to "invent this notion of being gay and African." (12-12-02)
Long Road Home
One Face of Gay Africa: Part 1. Cheikh Traoré is a 35 year-old AIDS educator working with African communities in London. He talks about his work, and what it was like growing up gay in West Africa. (12-4-02)
India: Kiss the Dinosaur Goodbye
One more colonial dinosaur may get the boot from India later this month if the Supreme Court there overturns the anti-gay Section 377 of the penal code. (11-22-02)
The Catholic Church and the Blame Game
U.S. bishops dilute sex abuse policy, while the Vatican targets gay priests. (11-14-02)
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