Artist, writer, and gay activist David Wojnarowicz was always one to be brutally honest. A prolific photographer, filmmaker and painter in the Lower East Side art scene of the ’70s and ’80s, Wojnarowicz didn’t shy from pornography or violent art, often spoke [...]

His right eye is covered in pink and yellow bruises and swollen so that he can barely open it. Abrasive burns cover his forehead, nose and chin. His white shirt is covered in blood stains. Dutch national Wilfred de Bruijn [...]

Even after the global freak-out over Russia’s imprisonment of politically incorrect, iconically bad ass girl group Pussy Riot a few months back, the country is still censoring its people in hopes of bringing back “traditional Russian values.” As of now, “gay acts,” such as kissing in [...]

British theater producer David Cecil, after being held in Ugandan jail for two days earlier this month, faces two years in prison for putting on a comedy/drama about a gay business man who is killed by his colleagues. Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Stephen Wandera. The [...]

We’re not sure if Vladimir Putin is trying to piss the world off — or if he just really hates gay people — either way… it’s not sexy and we’re not amused. Just after three band members of the now [...]

Igor and his girlfriend, along with another male friend, had changed clothes and gone out for the evening after attending 2010’s LGBT Pride event in Zagreb. On their way, a group of men asked if they had attended the “faggot [...]

Politics and legislation are often slow to adapt to public sentiment, but neither the American public nor its representatives can deny that 2012 has been one of the gayest years—politically speaking—in American history. The past four and a half months [...]

Although the South African constitution protects people from violence and discrimination based on their sexual orientation, homophobia is widespread, especially within the townships and poorer communities. Corrective rape is the idea that a lesbian woman will be “cured” and “punished” [...]

In the center of the western hemisphere, where LGBT rights are flourishing, lies a pocket of violent discrimination that this part of the world hasn’t witnessed since the height of the American civil rights movement. Jamaica, suggested as possibly “The [...]

After week long engagements leaving many of New York legislators both disheveled and weary, and by the hair of their chins, they have managed to hear the voice of the people: New York State is now approving Same-Sex Marriages!  WE [...]