Today’s announcement by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that he will not be seeking re-election in 2012 will have an impact on the character of the...
At first glance, Sharon Lettman-Hicks doesn't seem like your typical LGBT activist. For starters, she's a straight woman. She's married to a military husband. She...
Oregon holds off on 2012 marriage ballot measure Marriage activists in Oregon have announced they will not continue their campaign effort to legalize marriage between...
For a month, Frank Mugisha is out of Uganda. In late October, he arrived in Norway, where he received the Rafto Prize on behalf of...
Score one for freedom of information. Score another for correcting a mistake, albeit unintentional. The company that produces the software used for website filtering that...
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
So, yes, it's lamentable that political progress is generally a stop-and-go affair, with long stretches of frustration and ennui punctuated by momentary outbursts of excitement...
History may be written by the victors, but some local college students are forgoing what may be written in their textbooks and pursuing educational opportunities...
House Alters Michigan Bullying Law After the Michigan Senate passed an anti-bullying law that contained a religious exemption, Michigan's House of Representatives responded to an...
Various government officials, members of Congress, local community leaders and others congregated at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill to bid a final...
[Photo: Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) talks with Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese and legislative director Allison Herwitt, with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)...
{Kate Clinton (Photo by Jurek Wajdowicz)} There's a fine line between charisma and charm. If charisma is the bait, charm is the rod and...
Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...
The off-year elections, normally a slow-paced night for national coverage, featured several ballot measures – including Ohio, Mississippi and Maine – that garnered significant attention....