IN THE months since the National Equality March, when more than 200,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., in October 2009, the LGBT movement has experienced some disorientation. Believing that progress was imminent because of President Obama’s speech expressing solidarity with the struggle for...

written by Warren J. Blumenfeld, Iowa State University I was [once] asked something like, why am I still so conscious of being gay, and why am I still doing the work, when a friend of mine – someone with whom I marched with in the early 1970s in the Gay Liberation Front years – doesn’t...

I’m tired of talking about all of the gloom and doom. Injustice? Take a holiday. Equal Rights? Will you get off my back. I’m tired. Instead, today, let’s talk about tolerance and acceptance. Those are such nice words, don’t you think? Acceptance, in my own personal dictionary, means that I have...