This past week was absolutely AMAZING! Marriage equality has finally come to our nation’s capital! Now, of course we’re all counting down the days until it actually penetrates those tall, thick walls and becomes something everyone in our country, no matter their sexual orientation or gender...

According to a recent study conducted by the American Public Health Association, gays and lesbian who live in intolerant states (ahem, such as Michigan), are more prone to depression. Researchers report that gay people who live in states prohibiting legal recognition for same-sex couples are: 248.2%...

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of...

Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. His company...

Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist. Lorde’s poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes’s 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines....

Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the...

(January 28, 1901 – March 5, 1989) was an African American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House. In 1924, with the aid of a Catholic priest, the...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The producing team of the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, are proud to announce that Grand Rapids will host the national touring production of THE COLOR PURPLE for 8 performances, March 30-April 4, 2010. Tickets are on sale now, CLICK HERE, for prices! Nominated...

E. Denise Simmons was the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts during the 2008-2009 term, and she was the first openly lesbian African-American mayor in the United States. A Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, Simmons came to public office with 12 years of experience with the city-funded citizen rights...

Speak Equal has joined a coalition of LGBT and progressive bloggers in asking our readers to contact the Human Rights Campaign to repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” OUR MESSAGE TO HRC IS SIMPLE: Publicly demand that President Obama take the lead in getting DADT repealed this year. 1)...