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...
Yesterday, in an impressive pro-equality statement, 132 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives — led by Nancy Pelosi — signed an amicus brief stating DOMA...
132 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives today filed an amicus brief detailing their opposition to DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act that...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; The House LGBT Equality Caucus today applauded the Supreme Court for deciding to hear a challenge to DOMA, the Defense of Marriage...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — First Lady Michelle Obama was an honored guest this afternoon at a Human Rights Campaign and Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund luncheon to...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and DNCC CEO Steve Kerrigan among speakers at DNC’s LGBT Caucus CHARLOTTE,...
Will he or won’t he? Anderson Cooper covered the Republican National Convention from afar as Hurricane Isaac bore down on New Orleans and other parts of...
2012 is turning out to be a really bad, totally terrible year for conservatives, Republicans, and Tea Party types. So bad, in fact that conservatives and...
A bill to repeal DOMA, the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, will be introduced into the House Wednesday by Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-MNY) Jon Conyers, (D-MI),...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he sees no reason why the certification of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) couldn’t be complete by...
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), along with gay and lesbian Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jared Polis (D-CO), and David Cicilline (D-RI), today sent a letter to President Obama...
ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which has lived in Congress in one form or another since 1974, was again supposed to be reintroduced in Congress today...
Editor’s note: This guest post is by Scott Wooledge who also writes at Daily Kos under the handle Clarknt67. Read Scott’s most recent previous post here, “One...
Reps. David Cicilline and Jerrold Nadler introduce the DOMA repeal bill A bill to repeal DOMA, the ban of federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was introduced into...
Here’s a rundown of major “good” results — the good, as in, good for progressives and the LGBT community. I’ll update this throughout the day, but...