From NPR:

While on the campaign trail, Barack Obama made hundreds of promises. And throughout the president’s first year in office, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site PolitiFact has tracked each one of those commitments.
Just before Obama took office, PolitiFact combed through campaign documents, speeches and debate transcripts to see what promises he had made. They found [...]

The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards announced its nominees in a wide variety of categories today. The event, presented by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), honors outstanding entertainment programming and news about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues; among the year’s 116 nominees in 24 English-language categories and 36 Spanish-language nominees [...]

Tuesday evening David Letterman and staff chose to make fun of new Obama appointee Amanda Simpson who is transgender.
One would expect the likes of Fox News’ crew of anti-gay talking heads like Bill O’Reilly and others to make fun of, as they have, this Obama appointment, but for Letterman and his staff to come up [...]

Often I have stressed the importance of being out. Whether you’re a celebrity, professional athlete or Joe plumber, if you’re part of the LGBT community, coming out and being out is of huge importance.
I remember the process well and know first hand it takes a lot of strength and courage. When we come out in [...]

Choosing the greatest and gayest albums of all time is no easy task. Curtailing a brawl at Out magazine’s editorial headquarters, the magazine turned to 100 celebrities — including Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, and Rufus Wainwright — each of whom weighed in with the 10 albums that changed their lives.
With selections as diverse as the [...]

Today, D.C.’s Council made it official and same-sex marriage is now legal in the district by a final vote of 11-2!
The victory for equal rights prompted public witnesses in the Council chambers to cheer and applaud.
The bill, which may be signed into law by D.C.’s mayor as early as tonight, will go before Congress for [...]

History was made yesterday in California as John Pérez, was unanimously chosen by the State Assembly’s Democratic Caucus to succeed Karen Bass as the lower house’s leader.
Pérez, is expected to officially be voted in as the Assembly’s 68th speaker in January. What’s so historic? Pérez is an openly gay Latino Democrat from LA, and he [...]

In what started out as a horse race, but ever slowly and steadily during the night, Houston City Controller, Annise Parker pulled out a win over her opponent Gene Locke, a former city hall attorney.
Parker becomes the first “out” mayor elected to the city hall of a major metropolitan city in the United States. Parker [...]

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Ted Cox a freelance reporter, a former Mormon and very much a heterosexual, went undercover to report on the phenomenon known as the so called gay conversion where groups, affiliated or not with religious organizations, purport that men and women who are gay or lesbian can be “turned around” in their sexual preference there by [...]