Baby Great White Surprises Paddleboarders at Manhattan Beach: WATCH A baby great white shark paid a surprise visit to paddleboarders at Manhattan Beach earlier this week. Local professional photographer Bo Bridges captured video of the shark with the help of a drone camera. KTLA 5 reports:  Bo Bridges, who has lived in the area for … Continue reading Baby Great White Surprises Paddleboarders at Manhattan Beach: WATCH →

Gay Dads Share Their Personal Stories For Father's Day This week in the Huffington Post Gay Voices RaiseAChild.US “Let Love Define Family” series, gay fathers from around the country tell us about their Father’s Day plans and memories, and what this special day means to them. What does Father’s Day mean to you?Eric Van Herwaarden … Continue reading Gay Dads Share Their Personal Stories For Father's Day →

AIDS Nostalgia and 1991's <i>Someone Else From Queens Is Queer</i> I have steered my small craft of attention carefully away from most of the fire-engine-red buoys of so-called “AIDS nostalgia” that have appeared in the last few years and reveal, like freshly marked symbols on the newest, most accurate maps of busy waterways, significant shifts … Continue reading AIDS Nostalgia and 1991's <i>Someone Else From Queens Is Queer</i> →

Sharing the Stories of LGBT Youth: Starfire, 18, From Las Vegas (PHOTO) We Are the Youth is a photographic journalism project chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and “as told to” interviews in the participants’ own voices, We Are the Youth … Continue reading Sharing the Stories of LGBT Youth: Starfire, 18, From Las Vegas (PHOTO) →

News: Ansel Elgort, WNBA, Morrissey, Havana, Tom Hardy Wilson High School Principal Pete Cahall on coming out to his entire school. Ansel Elgort is the pits in the new issue of Interview. Here is the dripping wet gigolo that Lea Michele is dating. Morrissey cancels U.S. tour dates due to respiratory infection: “In the interest … Continue reading News: Ansel Elgort, WNBA, Morrissey, Havana, Tom Hardy →

State LGBT groups split on ENDA’s religious exemption State LGBT groups are split on support for ENDA and its religious exemption. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) A number of statewide LGBT groups this week expressed concerns about the religious exemption in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Three groups, Equality New Mexico the Transgender Education Network of … Continue reading State LGBT groups split on ENDA’s religious exemption →

Transgender Activist Joanna Blackhart Recalls The Challenges Of Coming Out In College Activist and musician Joanna Blackhart recalled the experience of coming out as transgender at a Catholic university in Texas as part of an interview with HuffPost Live this week. “I remember very much the day [I came out of the closet] was one … Continue reading Transgender Activist Joanna Blackhart Recalls The Challenges Of Coming Out In College →

Denmark to allow legal gender changes without sterilization Danish lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that will allow transgender people to legally change their gender without sterilization and surgery. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) Denmark on Wednesday became the first European country to allow transgender people to legally change their gender without undergoing … Continue reading Denmark to allow legal gender changes without sterilization →

‘Card’ tricks Beau Willimon on the set of ‘House of Cards’ with actress Robin Wright. (Photo courtesy Netflix) ‘An Evening With Beau Willimon’ Smithsonian Associates A discussion with David Carr of the New York Times National Museum of Natural History 10th and Constitution, N.W. $30 ($25 for Associates members) Thursday at 6:45 p.m. smithsonianassociates.org Beau … Continue reading ‘Card’ tricks →

Hillary Clinton Says She Got Into Shouting Matches With Russian Officials About Their Homophobia Would you want to get into a shouting match with Hillary Clinton? Apparently, if you’re a homophobe, you might. Appearing in Chicago to promote her new book, Hard Choices, the former Secretary of State spoke at some length about global homophobia, not … Continue reading Hillary Clinton Says She Got Into Shouting Matches With Russian Officials About Their Homophobia →