Gay pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that ...

In this twenty-eight episode of MALE BALLET DANCERS we introduce Ociel Gone from Cuba, Federico Javier Fleitas from Paraguay and Israel Rodriguez who danced for the Orlando Ballet and is also originally from Cuba. With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from

Believer follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church deals with homosexuality. “I just want to take this moment,” began Dan Reynolds at the Billboard Music Awards, “to say there are still 34 s

Darren Criss transforms "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" in his tribute to ASCAP Founders Award honoree Rod Stewart at the 2011 ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles. ASCAP's hundreds of thousands of songwriter, composer and music publisher members all have one thing in common: they are driven to create. ASCA...

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought t...

Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The S

Remembering George Michael (June 25, 1963-December 25, 2016). He won a Grammy Award in 1988 for “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me),” a duet with Aretha Franklin, and “Faith” won the Grammy for album of the year. In Britain, he was showered with awards, and in 2004, Britain’s Radio Academy said he ha

The AlphaDog Proto is a lab prototype for the Legged Squad Support System, a robot being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the US Marine Corps. When fully developed the system will carry 400 lbs of payload on 20-mile missions in rough terrain. The first version of the complete...

Annie Lennox has come a long way since fronting the Grammy Award-winning Eurythmics in the 1980s. Since then she has become a successful solo artist, sold more than 80 million records, and become renowned for her charity work with organizations such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Nelson M

Celebrating the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim by broadway super stars: 0:18 - Stephen Schwartz - "Prologue" (Follies) 3:28 - Broadway Musicians - "Overture" (Merrily We Roll Along) 8:47 - Sutton Foster - "There Won't Be Trumpets" (Anyone Can Whistle) 12:47 - Neil Patrick Harris - "The Witch's Ra