I love this video responses to this question: "when did you choose to be straight?"

In case you missed his comedy routine, watch Obama at the White House Correspondents' dinner

Jason Collins' interview with Oprah from last weekend

Oprah to NBA Player Jason Collins: "You Are a Pioneer"

The day NBA center Jason Collins sat down to tell his coming-out story to a reporter from Sports Illustrated, he read a quote from the daily prayer book his grandmother gave him. Watch as Oprah recites the quote and asks Jason how it felt to take off the mask he'd been wearing for so many years. Plus, find out how Jason's liberation has affected him—emotionally and physically.

Freedom means freedom for everyone

Tweet of the day

History is made in Colorado: the first civil unions are performed. Let's hope marriage equality will be next

Today, on my 53rd birthday, I feel grateful for life and my life...

My little sister died, when I was 5 years old, of cancer so, as I was growing up, I thought there might be a good chance I would I die early, too. Later, I lost several good friends to AIDS and felt that I, too, might get infected and die. But that didn't happen.

Today, at 53, I celebrate life and the wonderful things in it now more than ever.  My relationships with family and friends are most important to me, followed by good health, meaningful work, LGBT activism, exercise, and lots of movies and books.  I am fortunate to be alive, happy, and healthy, contributing in whatever ways I can to society and those people and things that I love.

BTW, a friend sent them this awesome birthday video:

NBA Player Kenneth Faried is proud of his two moms. So am I

How to resist the urge to be always checking your smartphone...

When you are really bored, the best thing you can do is sit down and let yourself experience the boredom more fully. It may not be a deep or satisfying state, but at least you are not indulging in the things with which you usually cover up this kind of experience. Your real state of mind is more nakedly exposed, because for the time being there are no distractions. If you can stay with the experience of boredom, you can try to feel your way through into something deeper, truer, and more spontaneous within yourself.

An excerpt from Staying with Boredom, from Tricycle.com

GIF of the day, on marriage equality