Rick Santorum, who owns the record for the largest defeat of an incumbent U.S. Senator, announced Monday morning that he is running for president. Santorum, who has...
Fifty years ago this past weekend, the Freedom Riders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which included student leaders Diane Nash and John Lewis, decided...
DOMA seems to keep causing problems every time it turns up. Paul Clement, the now-former King and Spalding (K&S) partner who signed John Boehner’s contract to...
Just as Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) claimed Matthew Shepard’s hate-crime murder was the by-product of a robbery, police in Kampala, Uganda, are calling LGBT activist David...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release                                                          April 20, 2011   REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT A FACEBOOK TOWN HALL  ...
An ultra-right-wing conservative organization named Public Advocate of the United States (which sounds like an official government agency, right?) is sending the most offensive anti-gay adoption...
Last week, Michele Bachmann won the presidential straw poll at The Awakening, a religious and social conservatives’ convention where the Minnesota Republican Congresswoman and Tea Party Caucus...
For the second time, a U.S. federal court has barred the government from enforcing Don’t Ask,Don’t Tell (DADT), the military’s ban on open-sevice by gay, lesbian,...
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) will check into a mental health treatment facility, presumably for sexual addiction, and will seek a leave of absence from the House of Representatives....
Matthew Shepard was brutally, savagely, and fatally attacked 13 years ago tonight, possibly exactly thirteen years ago at the very moment you are reading this now....
One night in America, the death penalty was hard at work, and two men — Troy Davis and Lawrence Russell Brewer — were put to death...
Republican Congressman (and doctor) John Fleming (R-LA) says that even though he is a multi-millionaire who made $6.3 million last year, after he pays his employees,...
Advocacy Organization Joins In Support Of Class Action Lawsuit Against Pentagon Leaders Gates, Rumsfeld To Combat Military Rape, Sexual Assault Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a national...
The war to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell continues. The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday filed an emergency motion to halt the Ninth Circuit Court of...
Dame Elizabeth Taylor died today at the age of 79. She was an Academy Award-winning actress who starred in 70 films and television shows, a relentless...