Gay Rights Lawyer Kills Himself in New York City
David Buckel, an environmental advocate, burns himself to death in a grisly protest against ecological destruction.
Scheer Intelligence
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on Risking Career for LGBT Rights
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The Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer and activist speaks to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer about the risky but necessary decision to pause his career in pursuit of LGBT equality.
Physician, 93, to Head Church After Death of Mormon Leader Thomas Monson
Russell M. Nelson, who has a conservative record, is not expected to press for reforms, including those advancing the rights of LGBT members.
TD originals
Judicial Roadmap for the Supreme Court Veers Right
With Neil Gorsuch on the bench, the highest court is set to have a conservative majority.
Edith Windsor, Who Helped End the Ban on Gay Marriage, Dies at 88
The opinion in a suit she filed was the basis for federal court rulings against state prohibitions and led to a 2015 Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry.
TD originals
Silence Is Killing Your LGBT Relatives
All queer people are equally in the crosshairs of homegrown hatred. Our straight families and friends need to recognize this openly and explicitly.
Juan Cole
Omar Mateen and Right-Wing Homophobia: Was Florida Massacre a Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?
U.S. law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism,” but it probably wasn't terrorism in any useful sense of the word.
Will Orlando Drive Us From Our Corners?
It only compounded the horror that the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history called forth talking points that had been composed long before 50 innocents were murdered early Sunday.
Truthdig Radio
From the Archives: Michael Ratner on American Imperialism
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The lawyer and human rights crusader, who died Wednesday, spoke on Truthdig Radio in 2013. To honor Ratner, we are reposting the audio of that interview.
VIDEO: Samantha Bee Begs Hillary Clinton to Turn Back Time and Unsay What She Said About the Reagans
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The "Full Frontal" host could only explain Hillary Clinton's erroneous statement that Ronald and Nancy Reagan had started a national conversation about HIV and AIDS by quipping that Clinton had "apparently suffered a stroke."