Stories by Joseph Huff-Hannon

Joseph Huff-Hannon is an award-winning writer, and a campaigner with All Out, a new global LGBT campaign organization.subscribe to Joseph Huff-Hannon's rss feed

The Gay Rights Movement Has Gone Mainstream -- But Is That a Good Thing?

Posted on Jun 23, 2011, Source: Next Magazine

New York's gay community just won the kind of equality that will make us just like everyone else. But do we want to be just like everyone else?

One-Two Punch: Man Is Beaten In Anti-Gay Hate Crime and Also by America's Sick Health-Care System

Posted on Mar 31, 2011, Source: AlterNet

After a brutal attack, Barie Shortell is taking a whipping from one of the insidious antagonists of 21st century American life—the health-care system.

Could You 'Play Gay' if Your Life Depended on it? Asylum Seekers Who Don't 'Act Gay' Enough Being Sent Home to Face Death

Posted on Feb 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet

With the National Prayer Breakfast upon us, backed by radical homophobes The Family, it's a good time to examine the world's deadly climate for gay people.

A Campaign Goes Viral to Stop 'Corrective Rape,' Used to 'Cure' South African Women of Homosexuality

Posted on Jan 11, 2011, Source: AlterNet

How a humble online petition to stop the barbaric practice of "corrective rape" in South Africa went global.

Why These Are Times of Crisis for Global LGBT Equality -- And How Activists Are Fighting the Hate

Posted on Dec 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Dispatches from an international conference of activists fighting for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex equality.

The Three Greatest Pranks of 2010

Posted on Apr 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Engineered by the most pedigreed pranksters on earth, these pranks employed state-of-the-art PR and marketing tools.

The Other Wiretapping Scandal

Posted on May 21, 2009, Source: Indypendent

In Colombia, our closest South American ally, intelligence agents spied on judges, journalists, and politicians. Was the U.S. involved?

Some of Us Still Think They Can Get Rich Quick from the Real Estate Bubble

Posted on May 2, 2009, Source: New York Press

A visit to a packed real estate seminar on how to "get paid to buy a house" reveals that the bubble mindset still hasn't popped.
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