Activism

With Trump in office, the glass of American virtues seems mostly empty… until you look closer at the glass.

A celebrity named Jenner embroiled in controversy because of tone-deafness? Shocking!

“Airing this content thus can encourage children to learn and/or justify inappropriate behavior.”

They targeted Pastor Rick Warren’s meetup for hosting guests hostile to gays and Muslims.

A modern day pro-LGBT Joan of Arc, Kathy Baldock’s advocacy is not from behind a computer screen, but face-to-face interaction with the most rabid anti-gay ministers in the U.S. evangelical movement.

WASHINGTON — As an AIDS activist in the early 1990s, Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington to challenge the Food and Drug Administration. Gonsalves was part of the confrontational group Act Up, which staged protests outside the FDA’s headquarters, disrupted its public meetings and pressured its leaders into speeding up the approval of experimental drugs for patients …

BOISE, Idaho — Long before their arrests, activists seeking to add discrimination protections for gays and lesbians to Idaho’s Human Rights Act added lawyers: The 44 people facing misdemeanor trespass charges after Monday’s demonstration inside the Capitol’s Senate chambers have been promised pro-bono help.

NEW YORK — Despite seven months of international outcry, Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activity remains in place. Yet the eclectic protest campaign has heartened activists in Russia and caught the attention of its targets — including organizers and sponsors of the Sochi Olympics that open on Feb. 7.

When Stephen Snyder-Hill and his U.S. Army unit were taking fire during the 1991 war in Iraq, the then-18-year-old private glanced down at a picture he carried of his brother with a girlfriend. “I decided if I died that day, I would never have loved somebody,” he said.

NEW YORK — Michelangelo Signorile, the activist, SiriusXM host and popular author, sees many battles ahead for gay rights.