Emiliano Zapata was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution before he was assassinated in 1919, at 39. Many Mexicans still consider him a hero. “For us relatives, this denigrates the figure of our general painting him gay,” said Zapata González, adding that the family would sue the artist and t

Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act Up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant. BPM is the winner of the Grand Prix and Queer Palm at the C...

The Feynman Series is a companion project with The Sagan Series in hopes to promote scientific education and scientific literacy in the general population. Beauty is the theme of this first installment of the series

Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration, a bilingual (English/Spanish) multimedia initiative, provides much-needed resources to support and comfort young children throughout their parents' incarceration. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization. T...

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that the Justice Department is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina and Gov. Pat McCrory for the state's bathroom law.

A new technological invention is being developed in Israel as part of the most impresive defense systems in the military. It involves a self constructed anti tank weapons camouflaged in the field after being dropped by air cargo planes as part of an unmanned anti tank defense system. Sci Fi or Re...

For the past 90 years, the predictions laid out Einstein's general theory of relativity have continued to be confirmed by experimental science. The last hold out is gravitational waves - the idea that certain gravitational events cause actual ripples in Spacetime. The problem is that the effects are...

Thi is a special tribute created for Jamie Hubley, a gay 15-year-old from Ottawa, Canada who recently committed suicide as a result of bullying. The 10th grade student documented his life, including his depression and the hardships of being a gay teen in a blog. He also made comments on his diffic...

The green home of the future will not only waste less water and energy, it’ll be a lot more convenient to operate thanks to smart features that are either automated, or controllable using our mobile phones. The following intriguing inventions give us a glimpse at what appliances and gadgets might be

At the culmination of his five-minute lecture on "the power of diversity" of race and gender Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria said: "Reach for your phones. I'm serious: Reach for your phones. ... Grab your phones. I want you to videotape this — so that you have it, so that you can use it, so that we all have t