The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old...

Monday, Monday, Monday … *sigh* On the up note, there are lots of things going on in the community this week! Stop by our Community Calendar for details on programs highlighting Michigan’s extensive role in maintaining a sophisticated Underground Railroad, several different adaptations...

The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II as the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans...

Uganda’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is likely to be changed, a minister has told the BBC. However, Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Okello Oryem did not give details of how he thought the final bill would be different to the current proposals. Uganda has come under intense international...

TIRANA – Albania’s new anti-discrimination law defends gays and minorities and meets European Union standards, its sponsors said on Friday, but warned that homophobia is rife and winning over the public will be slow. Albanian rights groups and the Alliance against the Discrimination of the...

MOHAWK, N.Y. (AP) – The bullying by classmates and taunts of “homo” only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled “I hope you die” on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him. Jacob’s grades...

By a 12-8 vote, the Maryland House of Delegates Judiciary Committee has rejected an effort to prohibit that state from recognizing same-sex marriages lawfully performed elsewhere. Del. Emmett C. Burns, a Baltimore County Democrat and minister, had proposed that the state, which does not allow same-sex...

For gays serving in the U.S. military the fear of exposure exists at every level of the chain of command. Just ask Dr. Alan Steinman. In the early Nineties, Steinman served the four final years of a 25-year career as a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard as its director of health and safety —...

(AP) — A bitter separation between North Carolina’s first openly gay lawmaker and her former domestic partner is converging into a defining case on whether same-sex couples in the state are allowed to adopt. North Carolina’s Supreme Court said last week it will hear arguments in the...

WASHINGTON – In yet another blow to the crumbling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, Gen. Colin Powell released a statement today acknowledging changes in the societal attitudes and assumptions that had previously underpinned the law and announcing his full support for the law’s...