U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Monday afternoon announced her positive COVID diagnosis. She is the fourth member of the Senate in recent days to test positive...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working to ensure the rights Justice Clarence Thomas has stated the Supreme Court decided in “error,” and should be “corrected,” are protected...
In a memo sent to House Republicans urging them to not vote for the bill to protect the marriages of same-sex couples, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan...
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) last week attempted to appear supportive of LGBTQ people, but on Tuesday he was one of 157 Republicans voting against protecting existing same-sex...
Most Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted against the Democrats’ Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that protects current same-sex marriages and partially codifies same-sex...
First Republican in Congress to Support Same-Sex Marriage
211 current House and Senate Democrats signed an amicus brief telling the U.S. Supreme Court that banning sam-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
LGBT organizations are promising to make same-sex marriage legal across all 50 U.S. states by 2018. “Within five years, we will bring marriage equality to all...
“Freedom To Marry” is the headline of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform, published late last night. The headline, at least, according to many in the...
The Democratic Party’s Drafting Committee has released the actual language the Platform Committee will soon vote on, before it is put before the convention delegates in Charlotte, North Carolina...
Archbishop Timothy Dolan last night launched an attack on same-sex marriage equality and abortion in his closing prayer while an “invited” guest in the Democrats’ home,...
Barack Obama‘s win of a second term was achieved not in spite of his support of the LGBT community but in part because of it. The...
Maine moderate three-term Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has just announced she will retire at the end of her term, and not seek re-election, citing “an atmosphere...
Nancy Pelosi, the highly-successful former Speaker of the House, in a groundbreaking statement has just announced she is breaking with the Democratic Party to lead them...
Official White House statement on today’s DOMA vote: “President Obama applauds today’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve the Respect for Marriage Act, which...