On May 21, 2012 we learned that Dharun Ravi was found guilty by a court in New Jersey of invasion of privacy, hindering apprehension, witness tampering,...
When friends and strangers wish me a “happy” Memorial Day I want to shout back “there is nothing ‘happy’ about Memorial Day” in remembering those who...
The parents of a Branchburg, New Jersey middle school student who suffered a complete emotional breakdown and was hospitalized with PTSD caused by “systematic bullying” have...
Guest post by Brian Tofte-Schumacher Voices of lesbian, bisexual and trans women from around the world are rising at the United Nations—and important people are listening....
At least two military servicewomen’s groups are pushing to have Rush Limbaugh pulled from the military’s radio stations. SWAN, the Service Women’s Action Network, and a...
Kirk Cameron, the radical religious extremist and former teen star of “Growing Pains” met with criticism from, well, everyone, for his anti-gay, homophobic, and remarkably incendiary...
Today, in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered an amazing, beautiful, wise, and some say, historic, speech on LGBT rights around the world, acknowledging...
I was on my way to class when I got the email. It was a normal day like any other: near the end of senior year,...
Andrew Breitbart, the right wing extremist posing as a media mogul, actually got someone fired who deserved it. Instead of Shirley Sherrod or hundreds of thousands...
A bipartisan bill to support the 19,000 annual military victims of sexual assault in the United States Armed Forces is being introduced Wednesday in the House...
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...
A flash mob of dozens “glittered” a Marcus Bachmann stand-in (actor Carl Atiya Swanson)Â Thursday in front of Bachmann & Associates, the Christian counseling center owned by...
The Pentagon is being sued to get them to change how they handle and prevent sexual abuse cases. SWAN has joined in support of this class...
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were once again subject to the whims of homophobia and religious and cultural extremism this week, thanks to a United...
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...