I wish Leelah was alive today. She would know how a petition on the White House website with 120,000 plus signatures calling for the enactment of “Leelah’s Law to Ban All LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy” not only went viral across mainstream and social media internationally, but how the petition was also swiftly supported by Obama and his administration.

For many Christians, Easter is a high holy holiday — it’s the religious bedrock that not only anchors them in their faith, but it also shapes and governs their view of the world. I’m one of them.

For many Christians, Easter is a high holy holiday—it’s the religious bedrock that not only anchors them in their faith, but it also shapes and governs their view of the world.

A movement is afoot in state legislatures across the country to disenfranchise LGBTQ Americans.

With “The Year We Thought About Love,” Cantabrigian filmmaker Ellen Brodsky has made what some might call a dangerous documentary about youth in love, and what others would call a welcoming one.

March is Women’s History Month and Mary Dore’s documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry helps us celebrate, remember and cheer one of our most vilified sheroes of the last century — the women’s movement.

The precedent for same-sex marriage was set by an African American woman named Mildred Loving (1942- 2008 ) who I am honoring as one of my sheroes for Black History Month.

Black History Month (which kicked off on Feb. 1) became a national annual observance in 1926. The goal of the month is to  honor and celebrate the achievements of African-Americans.

On this the fifth anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake the main branch of the Cambridge Library featured Paul E. Fallon, a gay Cambridge architect specializing in healthcare design, and a new author on the subject of Haiti.

Martin Luther King’s actual birthday is January 15th, and I believe if MLK were alive today he would be well pleased with Ava DuVernay’s  film “Selma.”

Reverend Irene Monroe talked with students about the rewards and challenges of developing a diverse community as the 2014 Martin Luther King speaker.

Missing from the annals of African-American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and “queer.”