This week I talked with Somer Bingham, the punk-edged musician whom we got to know last season on Showtime's hit reality TV series The Real L Word. Somer's gutsy performance style and authenticity led to her being cast on the show, where the...

This week I talked with photographer Joel Benjamin and producer John O'Connell about their new LGBTQ exhibition at the Boston Center for Adult Education, "The Bear Sessions: Portraiture." The broader "Bear Sessions" resulted in images of over 80 gay men from Cape Cod...

This week I talked with Cathy Marino-Thomas, the co-president of the board of Marriage Equality USA. She has worked on the issue of marriage equality since 1998, including as the executive director of Marriage Equality New York from 2005 to 2008, and as...

This week I talked with award-winning filmmaker Rolla Selbak about her new Web series, Kiss Her I'm Famous. The project stars The Real L Word's Tracy Ryerson and The Violent Kind's Ilea Matthews and is a satirical nod to the sex tapes that...

This week I talked with authors Ross and Ryan Poore, a father-son duo, about their new novel, The Blood Doctrine, which addresses homophobia in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This courtroom thriller explores the life of a Mormon missionary whose...

I woke up and went online around 6 a.m. to see if anything happened overnight after they had released the suspects pictures on Thursday.

I saw headlines about the bombing suspects developments and woke up my partner and turned on the TV News. I tuned into WCVB-TV...

This week I talked with filmmaker Tim McCarthy about his new film project, Voices of the Abasiyazzi: Creating Allies ("abasiyazzi" is the Ugandan equivalent of "queer"), which he's producing with Pepe Julian Onziema. The documentary explores the cultural and legal history of queer...

On the red carpet at the 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York, I had the opportunity to talk with celebrity moms, both straight and gay, about their dedication to LGBT equality. First I spoke with actress and model Milla Jovovich,...

The day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard two days of historic arguments over marriage equality, I talked with Lee Swislow, Executive Director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), who can be considered the architects of the legal push for gay...

This was my fifth year covering the red carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York, and there's always an abundance of celebs participating in this glitzy yearly ritual. With this week's Supreme Court cases on everyone's mind, I had the opportunity...

This week I talked with Tony winner Levi Kreis about his new single, "So Much Better," and his current Flying Solo Tour. Kreis became a Broadway star overnight with his effortless comedic timing and dazzling piano chops as Jerry Lee Lewis in...

This week I talked with Mariah Hanson the founder and creator of the legendary Club Skirts Presents The Dinah, the largest lesbian event in the world that's happening in Palm Springs April 3rd through April 7th. This year besides all their...

This week I talked with author Paul Vitagliano about his new book, Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay, which features the stories and childhood photos of over 100 notable public figures from the gay community, including former U.S. Rep. Barney...

This week I talked with director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), whose new film, Musical Chairs, is nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film (Limited Release). The film, whose love story is set against the backdrop of a wheelchair ballroom dance...

This week I talked with Brett Edward Stout, brand manager of Gay.com, the first LGBT social networking site, which has recently revealed a new, hot site design. Brett explained:

Giving our members the ability to congregate around specific communities allows them...

This week I talked with jewelry designer Lauren Bedford Russell, who starred in season 3 of Showtime's hit reality series The Real L Word. Last July, as her season was airing, Lauren was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This was a shocking and frightening...

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This week I talked with Mesma Belsare, a dancer in the style of Bharatanatyam, a form of classical dance from South India. She is a real activist and supporter of LGBT issues. She has performed for numerous LGBT events...

This week I talked with world-renowned photographer Mike Ruiz about his coffe-table book Pretty Masculine, which is now available as an iPad app.

I first met Mike on the red carpet at the 2011 GLAAD Media Awards,...

This week I talked with Rev. Richard Emmanuel about why the quest for LGBT equality continues to create such a commotion within the Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious communities. Emmanuel brings clarity to this dilemma by giving us a history lesson on why...

This week I talked with singer/songwriter Janis Ian about her latest Grammy nomination, in the Best Spoken Word category, for the 2012 audio version of her 2008 autobiography Society's Child. The book's title comes from her song of the same name, which she...