Last night,after word spread that pop star George Michael died at the age of 53, I sent out several tweets honoring the man who meant a lot to me as a queer young man who came out in the late ‘90s. My first tweet instructed those unfamiliar with Michael (and the brilliance of what he created) to seek out his music.

“Too many places in the country still demand abstinence-only education as the standard or engage in shame-techniques designed to scare kids from learning more or asking any further questions about their own health,” Clemmer told The Huffington Post. “I think the way to answer this issue is by creating new mediums that challenge and expand the ways we teach sexual education and menstrual health.

The families of three victimsof the Pulse nightclub massacrein Orlando have filed a lawsuit against three tech giants, alleging they provided “material support” to the Islamic State militant group, Fox News reportedMonday.

“It’s sneaky and it’s really targeting the children,” the older sibling of a 13-year-old boy who received the pamphlet, and didn’t want to be identified, told Australia’s Gay News Network. “Mum was offended. And it’s upsetting for my brother.” Marriage Alliance identifies itself as a grassroots movement that “educates Australians about the consequences of same sex marriage on our lives.

“As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person,”Dillon, who hails from Ithaca, New York, said. “I also feel I have a responsibility to portray members of my community as accepted, loved and valued.

Every day that goes by since the election I become more despondent and more infuriated about your having supported Donald Trump. His continued unstable, childish, dangerous behavior on Twitter and off; his horrifying, extreme picks for the cabinet –individuals who are hostile to civil rights and seem chosen to dismantle government; his surrounding himself with generals, billionaires and nationalists – all of it is alarming and I’m truly frightened for our country.

Despite a new political administration that, sadly, might be more receptive to his right-wing conservative views, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) President Brian Brown isn’t backing down in his fight against the LGBTQ community. On Saturday, Brown announced the launch of the International Organization for the Family, or IOF, which aims to “take the global fight to preserve and protect marriage to a whole new level,” in a blog post on NOM’s website.

“I want to raise dollars and I want to raise awareness,” Pannell told The Huffington Post. “And maybe offer some hope too. Isn’t it nice to imagine a bizarre through-the-looking-glass alternate reality where there’s a Mike Pence who champions women’s health and LGBTQ rights and the environment? Well that’s me!” Glen Pannell told The Huffington Post that he was in a dark place after the election and wanted to do something actionable.

I recently sat down with Michelangelo Signorile for a candid conversation in an effort to understand and shine a light on queer experiences under other presidential administrations.

The famously outspoken designer and movie director, 55, got real candid aboutsex, death and parenting in the December issue of GQ magazine. In one of the interview’s more jaw-dropping moments, Ford explained why he feels all men should be penetrated ― and yes, he meant in the physical sense. “I think it would help them understand women,” he told GQ’s Taffy Brodesser-Akner.