Christmas is a bittersweet time for me. Ali Forney was murdered on the streets of New York City in December of 1997. He was the seventh homeless LGBT kid I knew who had been killed on the streets between 1994 and 1997. In those days there was no shelter for LGBT kids in New York City. The only youth...

At the Ali Forney Center we work hard to provide a holiday season of joy for the homeless LGBT youth who come to us for help. Many of our kids find this season challenging; it's getting colder outside, and they really feel the pain of being rejected by their families during a time that so emphasizes...

Eric Leven at the Bilerico Project gives us The Importance of the West Village and those God-Damned Christopher St. Kids. In it, he acknowledges that he's talked at great length on the subject many many times before. I tried to......

The controversy of Irmo High School (Irmo, S.C.) principal Eddie Walker and his resignation (effective June 2009) over the formation of a gay-straight alliance has highlighted divergent opinions and points of views within the queer community. The Rev. David Gillespie, a queer pastor who writes as &#...

In response to words from Mark Creech, director of North Carolina’s Christian Action League, on the recent passage of the Charloote-Mecklenburg Schools anti-bullying policy, a local blogger reveals the true homo agenda: There’s that term again, Homosexual Agenda. It looks like the cat’s ou...