NFL Hopeful Comes Out As Gay, High School Set To Humiliate Trans Student Again And More

May 9, 2013 Subscribe · Forward NFL Hopeful Comes Out As Gay As the tide of opinion shifts on openly gay professional athletes, a former college football star and National Football League (NFL) hopeful has just come out as gay.  Continue reading... After Prom Disaster, High School Now Poised To Humiliate Trans Student All Over Again Minnesota House Passes Gay Marriage WATCH: Member Of Boy Scouts For Over 50 Years Leaves Organization Over Gay Ban LOOK: Perez Hilton, Mike Ruiz And Alec Mapa Cast As Classic Pin-Up Boys WATCH: Ex-Westboro Member Breaks Down After Being Confronted By Woman Affected By Picketing The Number One Headline On Gay Hook Up Site Manhunt Is... NFL Hopeful Comes Out As Gay A Queer And Joyful Noise NFL Hopeful Comes Out As Gay WATCH: Ex-Westboro Member Breaks Down After Being Confronted By Woman Affected By Picketing A Queer And Joyful Noise MERYL AIN, ED.D. Why Coming Out Benefits Straight People as Much as Gay People Coming out isn't just healthy, necessary and liberating for gay people; everyone else benefits as well. Lies are destructive, not only to the person telling them but to everyone else who becomes collateral damage. Continue reading... MIKAH MEYER Gay Men in the Wild: Why Are We So Afraid of Each Other? Last Saturday I attended Gay Day at D.C.'s National Zoo. One by one, gaggles of gays would pass by one another, sharing glances and stares but never once speaking to the other herd. For an hour this continued, until I'd had enough inaction and decided to do something about it. Continue reading... MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE The First AIDS Generation: Grappling With Why We're Alive and What It Means All of us who were in the trenches of the AIDS war are today dealing with the grief and the survivor guilt. Many are grappling with deeper scars and something akin to post-traumatic stress. But unlike for veterans of other wars, there isn't any built-in support system for us. Continue reading... JINCEY LUMPKIN Why Didn't Ariel Castro's Victims Run Away? It's Simple Over and over and over, women and girls receive the message to keep quiet, be sweet and not cause a fuss. It's a rigged system. And yet the public is shocked and dismayed when victims of violent abuse stay or defend the abuser. Continue reading... JACOB COMBS Bending Toward Justice: A Reflection on President Obama's Marriage Equality Announcement One Year Later On year ago President Obama's ABC News interview marked an inflection point in the marriage equality debate, and though it might yet take some time for the legal reality of equal marriage laws to catch up to the political reality, an undeniable shift has occurred. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003