Our Soldiers are being raped...by our Soldiers. In the U.S. Military, annually, more men are being raped by men than women are being raped by men. I state this fact, articulating it in this manner, not to diminish what these women are enduring but to raise the level of awareness and discourse to fully include the men; they have been dropping through the cracks in our "system" in alarming and increasing numbers.

On Sunday, two Dorian Joyners donned their caps and gowns to graduate from Morehouse College in Georgia, where the commencement speech was given by President Obama. In 1988, Dorian Joyner Sr. was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. When he took some time off, he didn't think it would be 22 years.

For Thomas Saenz, no risk was too great to get the education he wanted. On May 24, Thomas Saenz graduated from the University of Southern California with a master's degree in engineering-while he was commanding a top security team in Afghanistan. At one point, he needed armed guard and an armored car to get to an exam site.

For an astounding fourth year in a row, all 167 seniors at Urban Prep Acadamies' schools have been accepted at four-year colleges or universities this fall. When the national rate of graduation for public schools is 78-percent, that any school could have a 100-percent graduation rate with all of its students accepted into colleges and universities is truly remarkable.

Residents of Temecula, CA, gifted Marine Corporal Juan Dominguez and his wife, Alexis, with everything they needed for a perfect wedding to show their gratitude for his service to the country. In 2010, Marine Corporal Juan Dominguez lost both of his legs and his right arm in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan.

Brian Earp answers the question,"Why aren't Swazi men jumping at the chance to have their foreskins cut off?" According to this article, "A multimillion-dollar drive to circumcise the majority of Swazi males between the age of 15 and 49 within a year has failed to reach its target."

Jamie Frazier is an openly gay Black man. He's also a pastor. If you attempted to count the number of Chicago congregations led by openly gay, Black ministers, you'd probably struggle to get to 10. However, a new church in the South Loop will add to that number.

Our actions are poorly matched to pursuit of the common good. As I wrote in my latest essay for The Good Men Project, Socrates famously and persistently asked six questions: (1) What is justice? (2) What is good? (3) What is piety? (4) What is courage? (5) What is moderation?

Two teenagers make very adult decisions to take care of not only each other but each other's families as well. Tony Colton and Ashley Krueger met at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, where they were both being treated for cancer. Though often confined to their hospital beds, an unlikely friendship formed.

Gay marriage moves to the middle of the country as Minnesota and Illinois make moves to legalize it. On May 9, the Minnesota House will vote on legalizing gay marriage; if the bill passes, the state will become the 12th in the country and only the second in the Midwest- Iowa was the first in 2009-to make gay marriage legal, and if things go well, Illinois may soon follow.

How can nonprofits best make use of the watered down altruism of slacktivism? In perhaps the most organized attack yet launched by a nonprofit on slacktivism, UNICEF Sweden unveiled a coordinated PR campaign last week against the "likes" it receives on its own Facebook page.

California passed new legislation last week aimed at getting over 40,000 illegally owned weapons off the streets. A new measure, signed into law last week by California Governor Jerry Brown, will now make it possible for authorities to confiscate the "tens of thousands of weapons owned illegally throughout the state."

The Science Education Act in Louisiana remains in effect, allowing creationist theory to be taught in science classes. Opponents to the Louisiana education act that allows for creationism to be taught in public schools were met with rejection on May, 1, when the state Senate Education Committee voted 3-2 to reject the move to repeal.

Three years after getting rid of security guards, Orchard Gardens is safer than ever and students are blossoming. Orchard Gardens was built in 2003 to be a school founded in the arts, a creative learning space, but from the beginning, the school was plagued with violence and disorder.

After 16-years of trying, advocates for same-sex marriage have finally won in the heavily Roman Catholic state of Rhode Island. On Thursday, on the Statehouse steps Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the bill legalizing same-sex marriage following a final 56-15 vote in the state House. The law will take effect on August, 1.

The new law would offer protection to victims of drug overdose who call for help. Governor Chris Christie has done an about-face on his earlier stance concerning a proposed "Good Samaritan" bill that would, "allow drug overdose victims to call 911 without fear of legal repercussions."

They have seen each other through difficult times before, and they are doing that again now. Five friends from Stoneham, Massachusetts, who share a bond as close as family, were all severely injured while cheering on another friend who was running in the Boston Marathon. According to the Boston Globe, brothers Paul and J.P.

Carl Pettit is a romantic: despite the word's overuse, he still believes in love-true love. Love is a nebulous concept for some. For others, it's extremely simple to define. Like the overused ideal of "freedom," it's often invoked in public discourse and in our media to measure the value of a human life, our reason for being, or to call us to action.

Guns purchased in buy-back programs must now be resold by Arizona municipalities instead of melted down and destroyed. As of Monday Arizona cities will now be forced to resell the firearms collected in buy-back programs instead of sending them to be destroyed.

Senator Joe Manchin said, "We're going to work this bill with all of our hearts." Senator Joe Manchin told " Fox News Sunday" that he plans to rework his failed gun control legislation to get it back before the Senate.

The White House has finally realized that incarceration is not the way to solve the "drug problem" in the US. At a press conference held at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, laid out his goals for the year, and announced a major shift in drug control policies for the federal government.

Dr. Jack Drescher said, "If you really want to educate the public about the risks of these treatments, the fact that there are states that have outlawed these treatments should be a chilling fact." A bill that would ban the controversial practice of gay "conversion therapy" for minors was introduced to the New York State Senate on Friday.

Liam Day explains why we still need to care if an NFL player is gay or not. If it takes a pond 30 days to freeze over, and if the amount of water that freezes doubles each day, it will appear after the first 20 days that hardly any of the pond is frozen and even on the 29th day only half of it will be.

Arkansas' highest court will follow a decision by the US Supreme Court concerning mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders. Following a US Supreme Court decision from June of last year that abolished mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles, the Arkansas State Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for Kuntrell Jackson, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14.