This past weekend, San Francisco hosted the 41st LGBT Pride Parade and as I was walking down Market St., I noticed how much Pride has changed since I first went to it, back in 1990. Each year, more and more of my friends share the same observation with me: “There sure are a lot of […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: www.helsinkitimes.fi (share this clip) According to the Helsinki Times and Huffington Post, over 30,000 people have left the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church, the national church of Finland. The reason? They held a debate on LBGT rights and comments made by various folks on the anti […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. An article on the Stranger.com asks the question “why are so many gay kids killing themselves?” And the answer is that queer kids have always been at higher risk for suicide, drug abuse, depression, and sexual assault. For example, queer kids comprise up to 30% of […]