In this fifth edition of Male Ballet Dancers, we feature four soloist from the Kiev Ballet in Ukraine. With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood a

China opened the doors of its new, futuristic library in November, 2017. The Tianjin Binhai Library, located just outside Beijing, features a luminous spherical atrium with bookshelves lining the walls, from floor to ceiling. What looks to be a book lover's ultimate fantasy could ultimately house 1....

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying

President Obama called for equality for gay and lesbian Americans in his inaugural address: Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as w

The information age has been enabled by computing and communications technologies (collectively known as information technologies) whose rapid evolution is almost taken for granted today. Computing and communications systems appear in virtually every sector of the economy and increasingly in homes ...

In this anthology, sixty-four award-winning authors and illustrators such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Terrence McNally, Gregory Maguire, Daivd Levithan, and Armistead Maupin, make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked...

Elizabeth Taylor accepts the Vanguard Award from Carrie Fisher at the 11th annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2000. For more information about GLAAD visit: http://glaad.org

Edie Windsor didn’t set out to blaze a legal trail, but she ended up a hero to the gay rights movement in a landmark legal battle that went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Six justices ruled that that employers can no longer discriminate against employees “merely for being gay or transgender. The Supreme Court has ruled it illegal to fire a worker because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The vote was 6-3.

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