Michelangelo Signorile, 07/30/12

Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices; SiriusXM radio host

The news on Friday about Amazon's Jeff Bezos giving $2.5 million to the effort of marriage equality in Washington State marked a milestone. And here we are, in a media firestorm over this pipsqueak, Chic-fil-A?

R. Clarke Cooper, 07/30/12

Executive Director, Log Cabin Republicans

There's a point at which a boycott jumps the shark, and when agents of government are discriminating against a business on the basis of political belief, the line's been crossed. At this point, the Chick-fil-A haters have lost sight of what we're really fighting for.

Dar Dowling, 07/30/12

New York–based writer and visual artist

Does the fact that you live a good life, are kind, work hard -- or are a hero as in Sally Ride's case -- become moot because you don't come out? I hope not.

Janet Mason, 07/30/12

Author, 'Tea Leaves'

"Ask and you shall receive" was one of her favorite sayings. If I had had a different mother, there's a good chance that I would have turned out to be one of the people on the street telling me that they don't care (enough) to register to vote.

John Shore, 07/30/12

Author, 'UNFAIR: Why the "Christian" View of Gays Doesn't Work'

"I'm serious about being a Christian and have grown to fully support LGBT folks in the church. I'm also a professor at a Christian College that requires each annual contract renewal to include reaffirmation of a denominational statement declaring same sex relationships morally illegitimate."

Dr. Amy Nunn, 07/30/12

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University

A mounting body of scientific evidence shows that where you live, your race and your socioeconomic status -- not just behaviors -- strongly correlate with HIV infection.

The Crimson White, 07/30/12

University of Alabama student newspaper

While I don't dispute that corporations, like individuals, certainly have a right to freely support any ideology or issue, it seems to be a bad business model to willingly alienate a large faction of consumers.

Robyn Harper, 07/30/12

Blogger at 'Gay Girl Revolution'

I wonder what you'll want to be when you grow up. I wonder who you'll fall in love with. There is a world of choice and opportunity awaiting you. You have so very much to look forward to.

Ian Thompson, 07/30/12

Legislative Representative, Washington Legislative Office, ACLU

Civil liberties, including LGBT rights and protections for those living with HIV/AIDS, are not partisan issues.

Rev. Meg Riley, 07/30/12

Senior Minister, Church of the Larger Fellowship

I can feel myself getting more brittle as this anti-gay ballot initiative heats up in Minnesota. I find myself wanting to blurt out to virtual strangers, "Can you even imagine what it would be like to have your family's mere existence up for a vote?"

Scout, Ph.D., 07/30/12

Director of the Network for LGBT Health Equity at The Fenway Institute

I have seen firsthand the power of collaborating with racial and ethnic civil rights leaders, but even I was surprised by how a small conversation with the head of the NAACP mushroomed into a milestone for LGBT health.

Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D., 07/30/12

Theologian, seminary professor and ordained minister; author, 'Radical Love' and 'From Sin to Amazing Grace'

When I came out in college in the late 1980s, I thought I was a unicorn. Surely I was the only gay Asian-American person in the universe. Never in my wildest imagination would I have imagined that I'd be invited to a White House briefing about issues of interest to the queer Asian-American community.

Jessica Arevalo, 07/30/12

Youth Policy Coordinator for the California Council on Youth Relations, a project of New America Media

The first movie to successfully raise $80,000 through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign opens next week to nationwide audiences. But Mosquita y Mari (MyM) isn't your typical love story.

James Peron, 07/29/12

President, Moorfield Storey Institute

Contrary to what commentators on the right claimed, the Chick-fil-A issue doesn't prove "liberal intolerance," but quite the opposite.

Amram Altzman, 07/29/12

High school junior in New York

Pride took a part of me that I had spent a considerable portion of my life so far hiding and being ashamed of and made it something that, now, I am proud of.

Conor Gaughan, 07/27/12

Managing Partner, Collective Conscience

Here's my message to social conservatives: Have those waffle fries; I'm not going to glitter-bomb you. But please, hear me out on why Chick-fil-A is so troubling to me, personally.

Nathan Manske, 07/27/12

Founder and Executive Director, I'm From Driftwood