A conversation with Rick Jacobs from The Courage Campaign. For those who grew up as Latter-day Saints the act of bearing your testimony is a monthly ritual to strengthen congregations as individual members share stories of faith. Now progressive activists are also tuning into the power of...

I was sitting in my KRCL office when the call first came. An upbeat voice with a charming southern accent filled my ear, “Hi Troy, this is Joyce McKinney! I bet you weren’t expecting to hear from me today!” Joyce McKinney? My brain was racing. I know the name Joyce McKinney. “I’m...

It was several years ago when I first despondently sunk deep into Helen’s living room sofa. I don’t recall the details but I remember expressing impatience with my parent’s inability to accept that they had a gay son. It’s easy to talk with Helen. She is a kind Jewish woman who is the...

The Stonewall Inn during the '60s was an unassuming bar in Greenwich Village. It was owned by the mafia and frequented by the queer rabble of New York City. The regulars were described as the “lowest of the low;" drag queens, street hustlers and the otherwise sexually deviant. It was a different New York City then. The police were determined to clean up the criminal enterprises of the mob and their perverse patrons. When the police entered the Stonewall for a routine raid in the summer of 1969, something snapped. The drag queens rebelled. The streets erupted in song and rage for three nights. The police fell back in fear for their lives, and the gay liberation movement was born.

The Book of Mormon is not only true, it’s outrageously awesome. At least, The Book of Mormon, as translated correctly through the musical seers Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. From the moment the curtain raises the production delivers non-stop sparks of jaw-dropping wow-ness. And...

While driving with a friend through the broken chaos of North Temple construction I flippantly asked, “What will happen to the gay political movement once we have marriage?” Without missing a beat my sardonic friend replied, “All gay men will become Republicans.” I let out a...

Spoiler: If you haven’t watched the final episode of Big Love – stop reading! HBO’s Big Love concluded last week after five memorable seasons. Creators Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen found rich material within Utah’s quirky cultural landscape to tell the stories of a suburban...

Is environmental justice a queer issue? Of course! The time is soon coming when gay Americans will enjoy full federal equality in all 50 states. But what good is a gay marriage if we don’t have clean air or water? What good is the legal right to adopt if we don’t leave all our new gaybies...