lgbt-rights

Three Years Before Stonewall, There Was the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco

It marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement in San Francisco and in the U.S. as a whole

YouTube Is (Still) Silencing LGBTQ Sex Ed

Why it’s doing so is unclear, but the impact — shutting down one of the few places the queer community can get good information about sex — is undeniable

Why Some Gay Men Still Ask Their Partner’s Mom and Dad for Permission to Propose

‘The whole point of being gay is that no one is the woman’

The Night I Got Drunk Enough to Tell My Wife I’m Gay

Shane McClelland, a gay man in Ohio, was married to a woman for seven years. He tells MEL about his life in a 'lavender' marriage — and what it took to finally come out