A review of “Insist That They Love You, Craig Rodwell and the Fight for Gay PRIDE” by John Van Hoesen by: Charles Francis All history, the saying goes, is contemporary […]

It is inspiring to see the Smithsonian magazine describe gay civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s pair of handwritten notebooks held in the Archives Center of the National Museum of American […]

Once known, even branded, for its dynamism and progress, Texas has entered into a spiral of animus and legislative contempt toward LGBTQ+ Texans reminiscent of Mississippi in the Sixties, in […]

Watch a preview of “Lou’s Legacy: A Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade” on PBS’s website.

It was their day. DC drag star “Ella Fitzgerald” and veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. were each honored with an official Mayoral Proclamation from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declaring […]

The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC to premiere documentary film Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade. “Is the Mattachine Society still around?”, people ask incredulously when I […]

by: Charles Francis 93-year-old conservative rode with us when no one else would The senator from Wyoming was authenticity itself — a Western force coming at you like a bobcat […]

By Charles Francis “Welcome, Garrard!”, the creepy conversion therapy handbook greeted teen Garrard Conley when he was checked into the nation’s largest conversion therapy residential enterprise Love in Action (LIA) in Memphis. “You […]