Dharun Ravi was sentenced to only 30 days in jail, plus 300 hours of community service, a counseling program related to cyber-bullying and “alternate lifestyles,” a...
Mark Regnerus, a professor at University of Texas, Austin and Loren Marks, a professor at Louisiana State University, authors of disreputable studies about gays have attracted...
Last night, the Senate in state of Washington passed a same-sex marriage equality bill. There were hours of debate, much of it very impressive, but two...
Over the course of the past seven days, both the Senate and House of the Washington state legislature voted to allow all citizens in the Evergreen...
DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, today was again declared unconstitutional by a federal court — the second time in five days — this time...
Speaker of the House John Boehner, as head of the Republican-controlled House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), has directed his hand-picked lawyer, Paul D. Clement, to...
Two New Jersey state Republican lawmakers successfully co-sponsored and passed a teen suicide prevention bill, which GOP Governor Chris Christie signed Monday. Yes, you read that...
The sentence handed down to Dharun Ravi a few weeks ago was “too lenient,” the majority — 51% –of New Jersey residents believe, according to a...
Steven Goldstein, head of Garden State Equality, just posted this statement related to the sentencing of Dharun Ravi: Moments ago, Judge Berman decided to sentence Dharun...
Viki Knox, the New Jersey special education teacher who was caught in a Facebook conversation calling homosexuality a “sin†that “breeds like cancer,” apparently has a...
How many more days of inaction by our Congress will it take before more people are outraged enough to join the Occupy Movement? Thursday, on the movement’s two-month anniversary,...
U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy was born today in 1908, as Joseph Raymond McCarthy. McCarthy was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists, homosexuals and...
On this day, November 14, 1900, Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He is best known for the music he wrote in...
On November 18, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture will open to the public at the Brooklyn Museum (BM). After it closes on February 12, the exhibition will...
John Aravosis at AMERICAblog says, “Insurance doesn’t cover Gardisil, and it’s not “proven” that it helps prevent throat cancer, but I’m getting my shots anyway,” in...