35 major organizations, from the AFL-CIO to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, from  HRC and GLAAD to the ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
Gautam Raghavan, the new Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and White House LGBT liaison, just sent this email, “White House...
Paula Ettelbrick, the former legal director of Lambda Legal, the former executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and a heralded LGBT activist of...
Thursday, there was yet another hearing in the Prop 8 case. To non-lawyers, the Prop 8 litigation must be starting to look like the one-hundred year...
LGBT groups wasted no time in responding to today’s decision by the California Supreme Court that ProtectMarriage.com has standing an is legally entitled to defend Prop...
In the fight for full LGBT equality, let’s remember that inherently, our rights are the same as everyone else’s. The battle will be won only when...
By Cary Johnson, Executive Director, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission  Paula and I were never 100% clear on where we had first met. We...
California Governor Jerry Brown moments ago signed SB-48, also known as the FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful) Education Act, which states that California schools must...
The United Nations takes historical steps in support of LGBT human rights,  the Centers for Disease Control reports  epidemic sexual and intimate partner violence toward  American...
Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev, (photo, above,) touring the United States to discuss the state of LGBT equality in Russia, spoke Tuesday evening at Columbia University...
Promotional flyer from a Jennie O’Donnell-directed show in L.A. Christine O’Donnell, who took in one million dollars after winning the GOP primary for the seat that...
My friend Dan Choi uttered a truly despicable analogy of Harry Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate, last week by likening him to a “pussy” that...
UPDATE 12.10.10: Since the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal bill failed to pass in the Senate yesterday, this rally is more important than ever! Senator Mitch...
Dan Choi, the poster child for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” who recently, albeit unsuccessfully, tried to be re-instated in the Army, is a hero...
Today, Media Matters for America, a watchdog group focused on battling conservative misinformation, released a report entitled, “Myths and falsehoods on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” detailing...