By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Three months ago, a young gay couple in their 20s in Aceh, Indonesia, was caned 83 times before a jeering crowd outside of a…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis We title our column “6/26 and Beyond” because, for the last fourteen years, June 26 has been the day the U.S. Supreme Court issued…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis When Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and other gay rights pioneers founded the first LGBT rights advocacy organization in the world in Berlin, Germany, in 1897,…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis With this year’s theme of San Francisco Pride, “A Celebration of Diversity,” we are thrilled to celebrate a great leap forward in the worldwide…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis As we mark the first anniversary of the Orlando massacre in which 49, mostly Latinx, members of the LGBTQ community were murdered and 53…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Many of us felt the sting of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States and feared how it would affect our lives. …
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis What does it mean to be famous? Such a question seems apt for a college philosophy or ethics class or something that Cher, Madonna,…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Three weeks ago, the LGBT community lost one of its leaders, Paul Connolly, a luminary in the field of philanthropy and nonprofit management. We…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis When Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, heir to the 650-year-old throne of the Rajpipla Maharaja, came out as gay 11 years ago, it was front-page…
Supervisor with a Purpose: An Interview with San Francisco Supervisor Jeff Sheehy By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis The morning after Jeff Sheehy’s historic appointment to the San Francisco Board…
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