George for President! by Michelangelo Signorile George Takei says there’s a not-so-secret mission -- or two -- behind the bitingly funny videos and Facebook updates which the "Star Trek" legend posts regularly to his 3.5 million Facebook followers, who grow by 40,000 per ...

Though Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe have prompted a media discussion about improving LGBT inclusion in the world of football, North Dakota student Jamie Kuntz is having a very different experience. After being caught kissing his boyfriend while recording a game, Kuntz ...

“I hated myself, I hated myself for what I was,” Thomas “Bozzy” Bosworth says at the beginning of his wonderfully moving 12-minute YouTube video (see below) detailing his experience as a closeted gay teenager and his triumphant coming out story. As the ...

Read below and intense and honest email sent to Andrew Sullivan of The Dish from one of our faves, the silver fox himself, Anderson Cooper. Andrew says "as a friend for more than two decades. I asked him (Cooper) for his feedback on ...

Jason Gutierrez is a Puerto Rican high school student from New York City and the quintessential all-American guy. Status comes at a price as rumors spread that Jason is gay. With his identity questioned, Jason is pushed to understand who ...

Last week we ran a terrific first-person storyby Jeremy, a 17-year-old high school football player in the Bible Belt whose dad is a fundamentalist preacher. Since then, he has received hundreds of supportive emails, including from politicians and other athletes. He ...

"Brian Sims never really had to come out to his college football team as gay. In fact, it was the other way around: his team more came out to him." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocG5tqBd0QU&feature=player_embedded I'm From Driftwood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit forum for true lesbian, gay, ...

A blogger with The Huffington Post tells her story about her 7-year old son's revealing words, "Gay. I'm gay." What a refreshing and lovely story.     Considering that my son has a longstanding crush on Glee's Blaine and regularly refers to him as "my ...

Knowing the outcome and tragedy almost makes this video unbearable to view. Friends say EricJames Borges, 19, killed himself Wednesday after having endured a traumatic coming-out experience. This should not still be happening in 2012. Ericjames was near and involved with resources helping other ...

Is Anderson Cooper going to fold to peer pressure to swing through the closet doors and come out? Now he is being accused that he will come out to improve the ratings of his television show that is getting so-so ...

Here is more proof that trail blazers like  Gareth Thomas and Nigel Owens coming out of the closet are role models. Jed Hooper becomes chatter box and discusses his choice of coming out. The decision, he said, was still far from easy. "I ...

This video is brought to you in good spirits and to lighten up the mood. LGBT folks coming out of the closet is a very personal journey. Some of us have it easier than others. For those that had it ...

Soldier opts to us the internet to gain strength to come out of the closet as a gay man and discusses his views on DADT. He proclaims he is from the bible belt. The headless soldier step by step talks ...

Oh goody, now that the big wigs are coming out we should have a domino effect effect. I guess some would put bowling in a league of sports. I mean after all you change your shoes and all. There aren't ...

You all know that Rachel is my girl! I do as she says (wait does that make me her girl). She calls for other "closeted" anchors to be open about their sexuality. Rachel takes on so many armies herself and ...

I can only take politics in small doses or by Twitter feeds. I am obsessed with Barney Frank and the messages that come out of his mouth breaking through his adorable lisp ( yes, I said adorable. Welcome to Daddy ...

Via www.hrcbackstory.org The following is from Brian Sims.  Sims is the President of Equality Pennsylvania and a former college athelete.  He was the first openly gay captain of an NCAA football team.  He played at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Just over 10 ...

Adams advice is to close your eyes and be yourself. Thats a great start, but the real challenge is when you open your eyes and  find that, that is when the real work begins. Finding your place in  this world, ...

Simple , to the point and easy for a child to understand. So, now the kids get it, How do we teach ignorant adults? < I don't know the name or authors name >

When we aren't to busy thinking that America is the center of the Universe and how Fab ( Rupaul, shaking finger) we are here in the privileged USA, we realize damn, we have it good in retrospect! I think that ...

Take a moment to remember Fellow human being that left this world early. A year ago today the world lost Brendan Burke, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian. Brendan was killed in a car crash on a snowy highway in Indiana. Brendan ...

I can relate, sorta. I never had a coming out party or ran to the top of a mountain and screamed, IM HERE  IM QUEER, GET USED TO IT! Nor have I had it published in any magazines. I was ...

Phewwwwww, thanks for the clarification , I can now breath. Next........... Facts of Life Star Is Gay By Advocate.com Editors Thirty years after endearing herself to '80s sitcom viewers, Facts of Life star Geri Jewell, who played Blair's cousin Geri, has come out as ...

Oprah and Gayle sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G ......... I say, who the hell cares. Is that something you even want to think about. live and let live 25 Years of LGBT Issues on Oprah By Advocate.com Editors Oprah takes a look back at ...

High school senior Kayla K. comes out to her high school, in an assembly honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 13 and 14, 2011. VIA towleroad