The rights to love, marry, and form a family unit are fundamental human rights. But the current marriage-promotion initiatives, carried out with enthusiasm by the Bush administration, exclusively promote heterosexual marriage.

The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing has issued an open letter that calls for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the faith community.

What is reproductive health for LGBT people? The answer is as diverse as our community and as varied as it is for heterosexual people. For all people it is the right to choose how we want to live our lives that is constantly in peril and must be relentlessly protected.

A common misconception is that lesbians don't need annual exams; as a group, they may actually have higher risks for cancer and other reproductive health issues.

Despite the right-wing claim that Mary Cheney and Heather Poe's new baby would do better in a household with two married heterosexual parents, research shows no disadvantage for children of LGBT parents.

Not many men visit the gynecologist's office: E. Danielle Maroon shares his personal experience with reproductive health and the challenges for female-to-male (FTM) trans people to maintain good health.

Why should members of the LGBTQI communities care about abortion rights? Because reproductive justice is about much more than abortion - and building a powerful movement requires diversity, respect and a clear vision of the ways in which we are all connected.

Cynthia Rothschild is Senior Policy Advisor to the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

Usually when we think of the HIV pandemic, we think of one big health crisis, and a lot of "mini-pandemics" under its umbrella, many of which are based in social "ills" of some sort. Crises in immigration. Under-resourced or even failing health care systems. Millions of kids who have or will lose their parents to AIDS. But we too infrequently think of HIV as part of *another* pandemic - that of the universal and seemingly un-abating crisis of gender-based violence (GBV) And, more to the point here, we (I understand this "we" to be quite broad: activists, policymakers, researchers, academics, health care providers, teachers, etc.) - "we" writ large - have not paid close enough attention to the ways these social and health crises are linked. HIV and gender-based violence, and violence against women in particular, are mutually reinforcing. In too many circumstances, they invent each other, as cause and consequence.