Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has just filed an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would support the rights of same-sex bi-national couples. Language in the...
U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Pryor say he is “opposed to gay marriage,” and always has been. Pryor, who gave an interview last week, clarified his comments...
Here at The New Civil Rights Movement, we’ve worked hard to ensure our readers understand just how deep the anti-gay Christian right is embedded into Republican...
The American Foundation For Equal Rights (AFER), the folks who are fighting Prop 8 all the way, with Ted Olson and David Boies headed to the...
Ted Cruz is gearing up for a White House run in 2016, and so he’s been in Iowa — where all Republican presidential campaigns launch —...
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s department has offered an apology in response to a firestorm of criticism after a local paper’s investigation found they had...
Scream, yell, boycott, fist-pound, denounce, threaten, rinse repeat. The outrage is nothing if predictable. This week’s is brought to you courtesy of Rolling Stone with their smoky...
Activists are moving to make marriage available to same-sex couples in at least ten states, and many of those attempts have been emboldened and re-energized by...
The list of comparisons Christian conservatives have made up to respond to the Supreme Court’s decisions last week supporting the rights of same-sex couples to marry...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issues a one sentence opinion, lifting its stay, enabling marriages between same sex couples to resume immediately With brevity in...
Stayce Driskell, Lisa Taj McCellon, and their children, Lilyan, 11, Sophia, 9, and Jackson, 7. There’s nothing in New Mexico’s Constitution that would prevent same-sex couples from...
At 12:01 this morning, dozens of same-sex couples began marrying, across New Jersey. Newark mayor Cory Booker and Lambertville mayor David DelVecchio presided over some of...
Bridget Wilson, one of America’s top civilian lawyers practicing military law, argues that LGBT military activists have earned a place at the leadership table of the...
Citing “terrorism,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin just signed a decree that will ban all demonstrations, rallies, and protests in Sochi, Russia, well before and after the...
North Carolina state Tea Party Republican lawmakers have filed a bill to allow the state to establish an official state religion. The move is a direct...