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This is the memoir of James C. Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different not only because his family owned the Hormel “empire” and lived in a 26 bedroom house in a small Midwest town, but because he was gay at a time when homosexuality was not discussed or accepted. Outwardly he tried to live up to the life his father wanted for him - he was a successful professional, had married a lovely woman, and had children - but as volatile changes in the late 1960s impeded on the American psyche, Hormel realized that he could not hide his true self forever.

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only 10 states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for 16 years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLD.

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence.

This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans. Ike's Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.

In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the US Military in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, DC. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny - like gay men and women for generations - was promptly dismissed from the military. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back.

Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major-league sports. But as longtime advocate Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever.

One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies in American politics, gay Republicans regularly face condemnation from both the LGBTQ+ community and their own political party. Yet they’ve been active and influential for decades. Gay conservatives were instrumental, for example, in ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and securing the legalization of same-sex marriage—but they also helped lay the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump.

An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and “America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican” Rob Smith.

"Gay and Lesbian High School Students Report 'Heartbreaking' Levels of Violence" is from the August 11, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jan Hoffman and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

How 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Changed America In the early 2000s, as the movement for marriage equality gained momentum across the United States, opponents warned of dire consequences if same-sex couples were allowed to wed. From eroding traditional family values to indoctrinating children with homosexual "propaganda" in schools, the slippery slope arguments flowed freely. But two decades after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004, followed by the Supreme Court's landmark nationwide ruling in 2015, a new comprehensive study paints a starkly different ...

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld. Again and again, he wasn't afraid to risk his own life when others' safety was at risk. Nearly all of Hirschfeld's family members were murdered by Nazis; she survived in hiding - and met Heinz again by coincidence after the war was over. They married in 1946. At that time, starting over was difficult. In the judicial service, Drossel witnessed Nazis continuing with their careers....

"Gays, Guns and Jihad: Motives Blur on Closer Scrutiny" is from the June 14, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Max Fisher and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires.

Il Ddl Zan tra lo Stato e il Vaticano: Lo scontro con il Vaticano. Le associazioni e le famiglie: "La Chiesa non vuole una norma che protegga i nostri figli dall'odio", di Maria Novella De Luca; Il giurista che lavorò al Concordato: "Atto di debolezza della chiesa, il ddl Zan non viola gli accordi", di Maria Novella De Luca; Omofobia e legge Zan, l'affondo del Vaticano adesso divide la Curi, di Paolo Rodari; Ddl Zan e Vaticano, Draghi e la fermezza decisa con Mattarella a difesa dello Stato, di Giovanna Vitale.

"Spending Bill Fails as Republicans Oppose Gay Rights Provision" is from the May 26, 2016 Politics section of The New York Times. It was written by Emmarie Huetteman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Canada's Gay Curling Leagues Take Pride on Ice" is from the November 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Levin and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Mexican President Moves to Legalize Gay Marriage Nationwide" is from the May 17, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Azam Ahmed and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Judge in China Rules Gay Couple Cannot Marry" is from the April 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Edward Wong and Vanessa Piao and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"The Most Detailed Map of Gay Marriage in America" is from the September 12, 2016 The Upshot section of The New York Times. It was written by Quoctrung Bui and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Killing of 4 Young Gay Men in London Fuel Fears Over Date-Rape Drug" is from the November 25, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Katrin Bennhold and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.