While America and the LGBT community are preparing to go to the polls tomorrow, the UN Human Rights Council today begins the Ninth Universal Periodic Review...
From its long history of slavery, suppression of women’s suffrage, and black and poor voter-disenfranchisement, to the George Rekers rentboy scandal, to last week’s racist epithets...
Gay Puerto Rican Teen’s Murderer Fit To Stand Trial. Just two weeks after President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention...
How To Make Good Use Of A Bad Year And A Bad Decade It seems appropriate that 2009 would be a terrible year, to top off...
Thursday’s historic passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is cause for celebration. The first federal legislation to provide inclusive...
Feds May File Hate Crime Charges Against Puerto Rican Teen’s Murderer. When President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act...
Eleven Years Later, Maybe Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, Jr., Countless Others Can Now Rest Four thousand thirty-five days ago, Matthew Shepard, the twenty-one year old, one-hundred...
Historic LGBTQ Legislation Eleven years and ten days after Matthew Shepard was murdered, the hate crimes bill bearing his name is on its way to President...
Just minute ago, the U.S. Senate voted 64-35 to invoke cloture on the $680 billion Defense Department Appropriations Bill, that includes the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes...