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Star Trek has a black hole of queer love, but out actors hint at hope

Out actors Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, and Celia Rose Gooding on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds share their hopes for more LGBTQ+ representation and for a better future.

Comedians We're Proud of: James Adomian

In honor of Pride, we're celebrating these LGBT comedians on the rise.

'Funny or Die' Skewers Rick Perry on Comparing Gays to Alcoholics

Funny or Die spoofs Texas governor Rick Perry's comments comparing homosexuality to alcoholism. You know, like how both are fun in your 20s.

More than 20,000 people show up for Kamala Harris's LGBTQ+ community call

Thousands of everyday LGBTQ+ people and celebrities joined an energetic fundraising call supporting Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy, which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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The Cost of Inaction on PEPFAR, the AIDS Relief Program That's Saved Millions

Leaders of Partners In Health, the international public health nonprofit, write about the danger of not funding PEPFAR, a program that's saved 25 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections.

Donald Trump's daughter-in-law becomes cochair of the Republican National Committee

Lara Trump has often touted her father-in-law as a supporter of LGBTQ+ equality — which he's not.

Former Republican N.C. Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86

Former senator Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists, and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. ''It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men,'' said former North Carolina GOP representative Bill Cobey.

'Bee'(n) there, done that

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee rides the current bee zeitgeist, but its laughs are a little too easy.

Ding-Dong, Jesse Helms is Dead

First Jerry Falwell, now Jesse Helms. One by one, the famous bigots of America are contributing their best (and last) service to this nation's progress -- they're dying.

After declaring run for presidency, Obama talks faith, other issues in Iowa

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think voters have a litmus test on religion, whether evangelical Christianity or his childhood years in a largely Muslim country.