By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis–
Seventeen years ago this month February 2004 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made history when he burst open the doors of City Hall for LGBTIQ couples to be able to marry. When we said, “I do,” we felt something transform within us. We experienced our government for the first time treating us as fully equal human beings as gay people. At that moment, we vowed to do everything in our power to make LGBTIQ equality and most importantly, the respect and dignity that comes with it available to all.
When the U.S. Supreme Court established the freedom to marry nationwide in 2015, it declared that anything less than full marriage equality for LGBTIQ people would “disparage” our “choices” and “diminish” our “personhood.” Gay people deserve ”equal dignity in the eyes of the law.”
Artists model of James Webb Space Telescope with Sun shield deployed as it will look once in space. (NASA)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASAâs next great flagship observatory. Itâs set to continue â and extend â the illustrious scientific tradition established by the Hubble Space Telescope, while peering deeper into the universe and observing what Hubble could not.
James Edwin Webb, the telescopeâs namesake, was the second person to ever lead NASA, at the helm from 1961 until 1968 during the storied Apollo era. Thanks to his forward vision and administrative skill, Webb is credited with establishing NASAâs aerospace infrastructure and scientific focus that has made NASA the undisputed worldwide leader in space exploration and research for the half century since Apollo 8, the first mission to take humans beyond Earth orbit. In the heat of the space race, Webb emphasized that NASA maintain a balance between its mission of placing humans in sp
Boys in the Band star Zachary Quinto (Getty/ANGELA WEISS)
Zachary Quinto is to produce and star in a new audio drama podcast shedding light on Harvard University’s attempts to purge gay students.
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Boys in the Bandstar is set to delve back into queer culture with upcoming scripted podcast series
Secret Court, which tells the true story of a purge of gay students from the Harvard class of 1920.
After gay Harvard sophomore Cyril Wilcox took his own life, the university had instigated a secret court led by the university’s president and deans, which dedicated itself to eradicating rumoured “homosexual activity” among the student population.