EXCLUSIVE: Pelosi reflects on four decades of LGBTQ advocacy
For nearly four decades, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been one of the most influential champions of LGBTQ rights in American politics. The former U.S. House of Representatives...
View ArticleBarney Frank’s powerful legacy for LGBTQ federal employees
Former Congressman Barney Frank, who died last week, was dogged during his life over being gay. The self-proclaimed only “left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman,” in Congress deserved better. Frank’s...
View ArticleWhat I learned from Barney Frank and a bit of queer history
Since I started my activist career at the early age of 25, I feel incredibly blessed to have learned so much from many of the legends of our movement, including from Congressman Barney Frank. When I...
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Politicians, activists pay tribute to Barney Frank
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 until his retirement in 2013 and who became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Barney Frank dies at 86
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) died on Tuesday. He was 86. The Massachusetts Democrat served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981-2013. Frank in 1987 became the first member of...
View ArticleBarney Frank, a hero of mine
Barney Frank has always been a hero of mine. We grew up in similar circumstances, he in New Jersey, me in upper Manhattan. Both of us knew at a young age we were gay, though that was not a term used...
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Barney Frank on trans rights, 2028, and the need to ‘reform the left’
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who served in the House from 1981 until his retirement in 2013 and who became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay in 1987, has...
View ArticleAs Supreme Court weighs trans sports bans, advocate and former athlete speaks...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases Tuesday addressing the legality of banning transgender women and girls from participating in sports under the 14th Amendment. Though the two cases differ...
View ArticleTrans people must be allowed to live full, safe lives
I have spent much of my life fighting for equality for all people. I grew up with parents who were refugees from Hitler, and am a first-generation gay, Jewish, American. I understand discrimination,...
View ArticleAlan Simpson: Republican from another country
The senator from Wyoming was authenticity itself — a Western force coming at you like a bobcat with a crooked smile. Indeed, the name of his ranch outside of Cody is the “Bobcat.” It was at the Bobcat...
View ArticleMark Takano to lead Congressional Equality Caucus
Gay U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) will chair the LGBTQ Congressional Equality Caucus in the newly seated 119th Congress, he told Axios on Friday. “Over the next several years, we will see a...
View ArticleThis Pride season, will LGBTQ Jews still belong?
Pride month is here — a time when many members of our LBGTQ+ community celebrate being part of an inclusive global movement where we can unapologetically be ourselves. But this year for many LGBTQ...
View ArticleA forever Pride stamp for gay Ambassador James C. Hormel
James C. Hormel, an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, and owner of Hormel Foods, a Fortune 500 multinational corporation, died on Aug. 13, 2021. He was 88 years old. Hormel was the first openly...
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Activists call on Congress to end anti-trans policies at Capitol rally
About 60 people turned out Wednesday night, Nov. 15, on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol for a Trans Justice Rally in which participants demanded that Congress enact transgender supportive policies...
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Graphic novel ‘Smahtguy’ offers timely bio of Barney Frank
When he was in high school, gay cartoonist Eric Orner, who makes his graphic novel debut with “Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank,” didn’t like the food in the school cafeteria. “The...
View ArticleIs being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?
My answer to the question: “Is being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?” is no. It’s the same answer I would give on whether just being Generation X, a millennial, a woman, or other minority, is enough to...
View ArticleHRC issues state of emergency but forgets to ask us to vote
HRC President Kelley Robinson declared HRC’s first-ever national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans. The Human Rights Campaign issued a “National Warning and Guidebook” to Ensure Safety for LGBTQ+...
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D.C. debates how to cope with crime as reform bill heads to Senate
Just over three weeks after the D.C. Council overturned Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a controversial criminal code reform bill that the Council had passed unanimously last November, the...
View ArticleRep. Pocan to chair Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus
The Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus announced Monday that gay Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) will serve as the new chair for the 118th Congress, replacing outgoing chair Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.),...
View ArticleCalendar: May 13-19
Friday, May 13 Friday Tea Time and social hour for Older LGBTQ+ adults will be at 2 p.m. on Zoom. Feel free to bring your beverage of choice. For the Zoom link or more information, contact Justin...
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