Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George today faced significant questions about the federal prosecution of 13 people who protested at the White House in 2010 in...
The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), held confirmation hearings today on four of President Barack Obama’s nominees for the federal judiciary....
J. Paul Oetken, the out gay New York attorney who was nominated by President Barack Obama for a federal judicial appointment in late January, told...
Molly Smith remembers well her first encounter with the work of Edward Albee. ''The Zoo Story is one of the first plays I ever read,''...
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a statement this afternoon strongly suggesting that the House will take up a court defense of the Defense of Marriage...
The latest from Sarah Palin, a response to the National Organization for Marriage about President Obama’s decision not to defend Section 3 of the Defense...
Rahm Emanuel, the former head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who served as President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff, was elected...
In a trio of nominations or appointments this past week, the Obama administration gave a nod to many corners of the struggle for LGBT equality...
In the first two years of the Obama administration, Media Matters for America had expended some serious energy toward addressing LGBT issues, most notably in...
Get Equal announced plans today to protest the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual D.C. event attended by many D.C. luminaries, including the president, that is...
CNN took a look back at an interview with recently murdered gay activist David Kato, 46, probably with a hammer. The country’s anti-gay tabloid, The...
President Barack Obama, following up on an earlier statement today from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, issued a statement this afternoon condemning the killing of...
The path that brought Mark, 29, to Fairfax is a little tricky to follow. First, his Pennsylvanian dad met his New York – via Cuba...
Today, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of J. Paul Oetken to serve as a U.S. District Court judge on the Southern District of New...
Today, President Barack Obama announced that he had named Roberta Achtenberg to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Although Achtenberg has a long resume and list...