News + Politics
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GOP congressional candidate features gay son in ad
Nan Hayworth, the Republican seeking to unseat out Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in New York’s 18th Congressional District, released a television ad Wednesday featuring her...
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HRC unlikely to endorse in Tisei, Moulton race
The nation’s largest LGBT-rights organization is not expected to get involved in the Massachusetts congressional race between openly gay Republican Richard Tisei and pro-LGBT Democrat...
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Walking Dead actor: Claims I don’t want my character to be gay are “BS”
“This is total BS by the way.” –Actor Norman Reedus, who portrays Daryl on AMC’s The Walking Dead. Numerous publications carried rumors from GLOBE magazine that...
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Bill Clinton avoids the past in LGBT-rights speech
The former president avoids the past in LGBT-rights speech
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GOP Rep. Chris Gibson backs attaching ENDA to defense bill
A Republican cosponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act publicly endorsed a strategy Saturday that would attach the piece of LGBT-rights legislation as an amendment to...
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CUA Democrats Rescheduling Gay-Themed Event
The Catholic University of America (CUA) College Democrats are in the process of rescheduling a cancelled “Milk and Cookies” event after university administrators pulled the...
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Elton John and PEPFAR team up to fight HIV/AIDS
“People, no matter who they love, who they are, should have a right to be AIDS-free.” — Sir Elton John, speaking with Secretary of State...
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Army unlawfully discriminated against transgender employee, report finds
The Department of the Army engaged in discrimination against a civilian employee and veteran on the basis of her gender identity in violation of federal law,...
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Pat Robertson: Gays are terrorists
“These people are terrorists, they’re radicals and they’re extremists.” –Televangelist Pat Robertson, host of The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, courtesy...
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South Carolina Republicans disown candidate who called gay couples “Gremlins”
“Most people learned in kindergarten not to call other people names.” –South Carolina State GOP Chairman Matt Moore, speaking with The State newspaper. Moore was...
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Idaho asks federal appeals court to review same-sex marriage decision
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter asked the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision striking down the state’s same-sex marriage ban in a...
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Federal judge dismisses challenge to Puerto Rico same-sex marriage ban
A federal judge dismissed a case challenging Puerto Rico’s same-sex marriage ban Tuesday. Citing a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Baker v. Nelson finding...
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HRC Endorses Truvada for PrEP
National LGBT organization backs use of antiretroviral drug to curb HIV infection rates
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Obama: Constitutional right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states
Obama says there should be a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states
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Schwartz Rejects Support of Anti-Gay Voters
“I’ve had some people that have said those kinds of things to me during this election. and I actually have said that if you’re going...
