The Board of Directors of Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL), an organization dedicated to working with and empowering LGBTQ youth, announced early...
After the Employment Non-Discrimination Act witnessed an exodus of support from several major LGBT-rights groups earlier this week, Republican supporters are vowing to push forward.
Several major LGBT-rights organizations pulled their support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act Tuesday due to the bill’s religious exemption. The American Civil Liberties Union, Gay &...
Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) presided over a nearly five-hour hearing on Friday where she listened to testimony for and against a bill pending before...
Joining a chorus of Obama administration officials who have spoken out on international LGBT rights in recent weeks, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha...
“It literally took me seconds to decide it was the perfect case,” Roberta Kaplan recounts of her first meeting with Edith Windsor. It was 2009,...
Sen. Susan Collins announced her support for same-sex marriage Wednesday, making her the fourth Republican senator to openly endorse marriage equality. “A number of states,...
The Obama administration will take additional steps against Uganda for their enactment of an anti-LGBT law, including restricting entry to the U.S. by Ugandan officials involved...
Only 2,000 people turn out for the National Organization for Marriage’s “March for Marriage”
LGBT-rights advocates greeted the White House’s Monday announcement that President Barack Obama will prohibit federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination with universal praise, describing the...
Ban on transition-related care lifted for federal health care plans
— Ellen Page‘s reaction to Governor Rick Perry, who, while addressing the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco Wednesday, compared homosexuality to alcoholism. “I may have the genetic...
D.C. high school holds student-organized counter-protest to show support for LGBT community
President Obama’s embattled judicial nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia faced renewed opposition this week as nearly 30 civil...
Marriott shows its true rainbow colors