Gay NYC voters give Ford the cold shoulder, demand answers on anti-gay...
Harold Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate challenger to New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand, got a cool reception Wednesday from gay rights advocates who are skeptical of...
View ArticleSenate GOP threatens to block all legislation — including DADT — until...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Wednesday that GOP Senators will block any legislation from coming to the Senate floor until two key economic issues are addressed: funding the...
View ArticleActivist groups scorn GOP-led defeat of defense bill, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’...
A visibly irritated Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev.), came to the floor of the U. S. Senate earlier this afternoon, and in a short speech announced that efforts to seek a compromise with...
View ArticleLGBT activists: Proposed GOP platform ‘out-of-step’ with mainstream American...
WASHINGTON -- Early reports Monday that the Republican National Party platform might contain language that would soften the GOP's view on LGBT rights were dashed by late afternoon as documents showed...
View ArticleGay rights group opposes naming university center for Mormon leader
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah gay-rights organization has started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University center after a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
View ArticleGay rights advocates rally at Texas Democratic Convention
DALLAS -- About two dozen gay pride advocates have waved flags and signs during the final day of the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas. Members of the Stonewall Democrats on Saturday stormed the...
View ArticleHow a gay boy from the border grew up & learned how to build bridges over fences
ProvidedActivist Jesse Garcia grew up in a bicultural world full of contradictions and opportunities.
View ArticleGay Michigan Rep. Jon Hoadley sets his sights on Congress
Fran Dwight PhotographyHe says he loves helping his constituents. "That feeling is incredible." Now he wants to help LGBTQ equality and health care access at the federal level.
View ArticleNew York enacts legislation that requires single-person bathrooms to be...
ShutterstockSchool, restaurants, and state-operated facilities in the Empire State will have to make single-occupancy restrooms open to anyone, regardless of gender.
View ArticleMike Pence’s home state seeks to be the next to ban so-called “conversion...
ShutterstockOnly one state in the Midwest has the "therapy" outlawed currently. Indiana seeks to become the second.
View ArticleTexas Democratic candidate compares gay opponent’s HIV status to gambling &...
The queer community is firing back at the Democrat's shameful remarks and they're not mincing words. The post Texas Democratic candidate compares gay opponent’s HIV status to gambling & drug...
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