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Closeted gay politicians like California State Senator Roy Ashburn need to stop lying to the public-and themselves. There is something so depressing, and at the same time predictably hypocritical, about the recent drunk-driving arrest of California...

The gay-marriage case now unfolding in a San Francisco courtroom may be the most important battle between tradition and modernity since the Scopes trial. On the second day of the gay marriage trial, Harvard historian Nancy Cott testified that the...

No wonder he moved to New York. As Harold Ford Jr. guns for a Senate seat, Memphis writer John Branston on the power, and crazy antics, of the family that got him where he is today. Only in Detroit is the name Ford as ingrained as it is in...

Christian evangelicals helped spur Uganda to seek the death penalty for gay behavior-just the latest indication that homosexuals have replaced Jews as the new target for reactionary religious zeal. Last March, Scott Lively and two other Christian...

George W. Bush's former solicitor general, Theodore Olson, is leading the charge to reverse Proposition 8 in California today. The Daily Beast finds other right-wingers who refuse to toe the gay-marriage party line. The national debate over gay...

It will fire up progressives before the midterm elections. And it will further marginalize the right. The intensity of the left wing's disaffection with President Obama really hit me over the holidays, when I kept getting into angry arguments with...

Last week, one of rugby's biggest stars came out of the closet. Could an American athlete be far behind? Alex Massie on sports' first gay superstar. We ask a lot of sports. It's not enough that sports entertain and enthrall us; we insist upon...

Almost a year ago, I won an Oscar for writing Milk, a film about a famous gay-rights pioneer. My acceptance speech was a call for gay rights that got me lots of attention and plenty of hate mail. Then last summer, my film was banned by the college in...

A little over a year after deciding not to go through with a sex change, LA Times sports columnist Mike Penner killed himself. Jacob Bernstein on the pain and struggle of his final days. The last few years have not been kind to the reporters of the...

New Jersey is the latest state to bail on same-sex marriage. Linda Hirshman on why the gay community's strategy is failing and why they're running out of options. Facing certain failure, the sponsors of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage pulled it...