Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.

He was the poster boy for the movement to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Now Dan Choi is sleeping on a couch, smoking too much weed, watching TED talks and wondering what he’ll do with the rest of his life.

Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.

Meet Alan Chambers, former leader of Exodus International–a “pray the gay away” ministry.

The benefits of getting sick in New York.

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

On the origins of The Village People.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

The author visits Franklin County, Mississippi, where, according to census data, there are zero same-sex couples.

“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”

On the gay community’s political progress.

Sex and status disclosure in the age of Grindr and undetectable HIV-levels.

On gender-variant kids, and their parents.

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens, and the first gay wedding on a military base.

Confronting homophobia in Uganda.

I am gay. I am Mormon. I am married to a woman. I am happy every single day. My life is filled with joy. I have a wonderful sex life. And I’ve been married for ten years, and plan to be married for decades more to come to the woman of my dreams.

Ostensibly straight black men who have sex with other men.

A young man’s personal account of undergoing “ex-gay treatment.”

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?

On House Xtravaganza and the life and death of its house mother Angie Xtravaganza, one of the stars of the documentary Paris is Burning, which brought vogueing and New York City’s transgendered ball culture into the spotlight.

In Michele Bachmann’s home district evangelicals have pushed anti-gay policies to the school board. After a rash of suicides, teens are fighting back.

I’ve read stories from people who say they always knew they were attracted to the same sex, or that they figured it out at a young age. I’m not one of them.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

How is Canada’s “post-AIDS” generation coping? Not that well.

[I]n some ways we are still hopelessly lost. A generation of men who could have been our mentors was decimated. The only thing we learned from observing them was to ruthlessly identify “AIDS face,” that skeletal appearance the early HIV drugs wrought on patients by wasting away their bodily tissues. But those faces grow more rare each day.