Tilda Swinton on the AIDS crisis and why fluidity isn't frightening
“When I was 33 in 1994, I went to 43 funerals,” Swinton recently told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
November 24, 2025
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'Jeopardy!' champ Amy Schneider schools Pete Hegseth on drag in the military
The trans champion responded to a report from last summer of an admiral being denied a promotion, supposedly because he allowed a drag performance on his aircraft carrier.
November 7, 2025
California Gov. Newsom is considering a presidential run. Here's his LGBTQ+ rights record
Gavin Newsom has been known as a champion of LGBTQ+ rights, but recent actions have some questioning his commitment to the transgender community.
October 28, 2025
Donald Trump will not be running for a third term in 2028, and it has nothing to do with law or politics
Opinion: The bluster about a third term is more of a Trump-created distraction that seeks to promote strength in the face of the creeping inevitability of aging, writes John Casey.
October 27, 2025
The untold story behind the first National Coming Out Day
How Jean O’Leary and a community of visionaries turned courage into history.
October 11, 2025
A gay friend and colleague on Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS work and how she created a safe space to be out
Tim Mendelson, who is helping to carry on Taylor's activism, remembers her on National Coming Out Day.
October 11, 2025
Fighting Democrats' setbacks by Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush required resolve; Trump shutdown is no different
Opinion: Democrats have been here before, and history demands that they hold the line, writes John Casey.
October 2, 2025
Bishop William Barber: Ignoring the poor means ignoring the Jesus factor and defying Christianity
Opinion: Anything less, he warns, is heresy and a betrayal of both the gospel and democracy itself, writes John Casey.
September 27, 2025
Who are the Log Cabin Republicans, the LGBTQ+ conservative group?
It has long been the nation's leading LGBTQ+ Republican group. Here's where it's been and where it is now.
September 16, 2025
We corrected after Nixon, Clinton, and Bush lies, and once for Trump, but won't after Charlie Kirk. Why?
Opinion: The outsized mourning of Kirk signals not healing but a nation spiraling deeper into lies with a point of no return under Trump, writes John Casey.
September 16, 2025
80 years after Hiroshima, Trump’s ‘gut’ is in charge of the nuclear codes, and it's dangerous
Opinion: In 1945, the world crossed a line. In 2025, one man might erase it altogether, writes John Casey.
August 6, 2025
Kamala Harris might provide the fifth way to chase the White House via the California governorship
Opinion: Nixon lost it, Reagan declined it, Brown couldn’t quit it, Newsom is using it, and Harris just passed it up, writes John Casey.
August 1, 2025
Is Pete Buttigieg taking a page from Bill Clinton of the 1990s and triangulating? And is that a bad thing?
Opinion: Recent pronouncements by the former Transportation secretary seem to have him toeing the line on a fragile and shifting trifecta, writes John Casey.
July 31, 2025
When Father Joe tells you who to vote for, America loses its last vestige of morality
Opinion: There’s no more separation of church and state, and congregants souls may only be saved by voting for the right candidate, writes John Casey.
July 11, 2025
100 days of erasure: Connecting the dots of Trump’s relentless war on LGBTQ+ lives
Opinion: In just three months, LGBTQ+ equality has crumbled as Pride flags fall, protections vanish, and queer survival is once again a daily fight, writes John Casey.
April 29, 2025
Pete Buttigieg remembers warmth and kindness of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
The Carters were "extraordinarily gracious and kind" to the Buttigieg and his husband, the Transportation secretary writes on Instagram.
December 30, 2024
Being grateful for the L, the G, the B, the T, the Q, and the + this year
This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks for the most extraordinary gift of all: each other. When the world tries to dim our light, we shine brighter together, writes John Casey.
November 28, 2024
After the 2024 election, we can be inspired by these historical LGBTQ+ movements against oppression
Amid the trauma and disappointment of the election results, we take a look at queer resistance over the past century
November 13, 2024
Who is Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's pick for White House chief of staff?
Wiles is a veteran but low-profile Republican political operative who was one of the people leading Trump's 2024 campaign.
November 7, 2024
We elect presidents that reflect who we are, and in Trump, America proves to be inherently selfish
When considering a candidate, we have always voted for our self-interests and character too, one that matched how we felt about ourselves and what we aspire to be, writes John Casey.
November 7, 2024
The Electoral College: Why do we have it and how does it — or doesn't it — work
Here's why presidential candidates have to concentrate on a handful of swing states and why the winner of the popular vote doesn't always become president.
November 4, 2024