News + Politics
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Gay groups now included in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
—Brendan Fay, chairman of the Lavender and Green Alliance, a Queens-based LGBT rights group of Irish-Americans, speaking to The Washington Post. For years, parade organizers...
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Religious exemptions bill marches toward a McAuliffe veto
In the final days of this year’s legislative session, the Virginia General Assembly approved a bill that provides religious exemptions that would allow individuals and...
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Into the Funhouse: Frank Underwood and Donald Trump
Television characters Donald Trump and Frank Underwood are flip-sides to hatred
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Charles Barkley to Derrick Gordon: Ignore Westboro haters
–Former NBA star and basketball analyst for TNT’s Inside the NBA Charles Barkley, when asked by TMZ what advice he’d give to openly gay Seton Hall University player Derrick...
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Michigan woman faked anti-gay attack to “raise awareness”
Mari Poindexter punched herself in the face to exaggerate claims of homophobic abuse
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Reaction to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee
LGBT organizations are calling for Senate Republicans to take up the nomination of President Obama's most recent Supreme Court pick.
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Obama nominates Merrick Garland for Supreme Court vacancy
President Obama named U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland of the D.C. Circuit as his preferred nominee to replace deceased Associate Justice Antonin Scalia...
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Sally Field “horrified” by parents who don’t accept gay children
–Actress Sally Field in an interview with People and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle for EW Radio on SiriusXM, on the advice she’d give to parents who thought...
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Oklahoma anti-LGBT bills miss crucial deadline for moving forward
LGBT advocates in Oklahoma are celebrating the passage of a major deadline that effectively means that 27 bills that targeted the Sooner State’s LGBT residents...
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Gay political action committee endorses Clinton for president
Equality PAC nod continues Clinton's trend of wrapping up support from establishment figures
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Judge refuses to reduce sentence in Philadelphia anti-gay assault
A woman convicted of assaulting a gay couple in Philadelphia in 2014 will serve out the full remainder of her prison sentence.
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Proposed bill in Colorado would ban conversion therapy
Colorado bills mirrors measures prohibiting attempts at sexual orientation change efforts that have passed in four states and the District of Columbia
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Hillary Clinton under attack for AIDS “revisionism” at Nancy Reagan’s funeral
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has issued an apology for comments she made praising former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan’s legacy on AIDS at...
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Seattle mayor signs pro-transgender executive order
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has signed an executive order requiring the city’s Office for Civil Rights to develop comprehensive competency training for all “front-line” city...
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Phoenix city councilman under fire for allegedly homophobic comments
A Phoenix city councilman has said he will not resign after a video emerged in which he makes comments about same-sex marriage and the right of...
