The New Civil Rights Movement’s John Culhane is the official blogger for Equality Forum, Philadelphia’s internationally known and always interesting cavalcade of events that celebrates, informs and provokes on...
The New Civil Rights Movement’s John Culhane is the official blogger for Equality Forum, Philadelphia’s internationally known and always interesting cavalcade of events that celebrates, informs and provokes...
This morning two college students in North Carolina are embarking on a journey across the state in the name of civil rights. From May 4 until...
The New Civil Rights Movement’s John Culhane is the official blogger for Equality Forum, Philadelphia’s internationally known and always interesting cavalcade of events that celebrates, informs and provokes...
Guest post by Ging Cristobal, Asia Project Coordinator International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission  The Ninth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Civil Society Conference/ASEAN...
Howell, Michigan public high school student Daniel Glowacki gained notoriety when he disrupted teacher Jay McDowell’s Spirit Day presentation with anti-gay hate speech. In a new anti-gay...
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends†— Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever I need...
Over dinner recently, I learned of my niece’s concern about her high school administrators removing the Kony 2012 posters that had been plastered all over the...
Sometimes it’s best to just let a story tell itself. Here in Seattle we have an LGBT Commission. From the Seattle LGBT Commission (SLGBTC) Website: Mission...
BE IT PROCLAIMEDÂ BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Council hereby proclaim March 17, 2012 to be LGBT Civil Rights Equality Awareness...
 They marched forward, dignified and determined, willing to put it all on the line for equality. “I am somebody!†The crowd around them full of...
Marriage Equality in Washington State was signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire on February 13; the backlash was immediate. Within hours Referendum 74, an attempt to...
Yesterday afternoon, Judge Thomas McPhee ruled that Washington’s Referendum 74, which is the bill that brings same-sex marriage equality to the state, will not contain the phrase “redefine...
The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission  (IGLHRC) reports this week that groups of LGBT people are being targeted in Iraq, noting “close to 40 people...
Bayard Rustin, the openly gay African American who was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s right hand man responsible for a good deal of the civil rights activist’s...