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    National News Briefs

    Compiled by Dennis McMillan  Seattle, WA – Gay Scouts Ask Amazon to Cut Funding as National Group Convenes – 5.22 The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is kicking off its…

    Local News Briefs

    Compiled by Dennis McMillan Major Construction Work in Castro To Be Completed Before Frameline Festival and Pride Parade Castro Street between Market and 19th Streets is one of the most…

    Lyon-Martin Health Services Unveils New Plan for Long Term Sustainability and Growth

    This week, the Board and Staff of Lyon-Martin Health Services announced they are exploring a potential merger with HealthRIGHT 360—a family of health centers and behavioral health programs serving communities…

    A Year Like None Other: NCLR’s Litigation Work

    A Year Like None Other: NCLR’s Litigation Work

    By Christopher Stoll, Esq. Ever since NCLR’s founding, we have been at the forefront of some of the most important legal cases in the history of the LGBT movement, from…

    Ann Rostow: Spring Forward, Fall Back

    By Ann Rostow Spring Forward, Fall Back For two columns now, I’ve steered clear of discussing the insider book about the Prop 8 case, Forcing the Spring, written by Pulitzer…

    NCLR Advances LGBT Equality Through Policy and Legislation

    NCLR Advances LGBT Equality Through Policy and Legislation

    By Maya Rupert, Esq. NCLR’s public policy and legislative team has been busy in Washington, D.C., working with the Obama administration and our friends on Capitol Hill to make sure…

    National and Local News Map

    Compiled by Dennis McMillan  Biloxi, MS – USM Grads Wear Rainbow Ribbons to Protest Congressman Palazzo’s Anti-gay Marriage Stance – 5.11 On Saturday morning, a little more than 300 University…

    We in the LGBT Community Have Two Kinds of Family

    We in the LGBT Community Have Two Kinds of Family

    Like most people I know, I don’t have a family “tree” per se—it seems like more of a family vine. Lots of grafting, transplanting, dead branches and new shoots. I…

    David Campos for the Win!

    David Campos for the Win!

    Regular readers of this column may remember that last month I wrote about the Leland Yee fiasco and tried to contextualize it in the larger tragedy of money’s pervasive and…

    Our Spiritual Power As We Age

    Our Spiritual Power As We Age

    How hard it can be to talk about spirituality and aging. Inevitably, we have to consider religion, too, and all its complexity. The truth is that we live in a…