The Catholic League today is attacking the Human Rights Campaign, claiming the nation's top LGBT rights organization "often disrespects the human rights of those with whom...
Late this morning President Barack Obama signed two historic executive orders prohibiting bias by federal contractors against LGBT people in the workplace.
After years of insisting he is straight, Australian Olympic gold medal icon Ian Thorpe has just revealed he is gay. Here's why it matters.
Dustin Lance Black last month had been invited to be the commencement speaker at his alma mater, Pasadena City College, until the Board of Trustees revoked...
Twelve hours of impassioned debate that ended at 12:30 AM resulted in the Democratically-controlled Minnesota House passing what is being described as one of the nation’s...
Maybe it’s just me, but I think that at some point you just have to laugh. I mean, what else can a sane person do when...
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that yesterday, John Boehner extended a formal invitation to the leader of his Roman Catholic faith, Pope Francis I, to address...
Meet Trestin Meacham. Meacham has been on a starvation diet since December 21, in an effort to end the legalization of same-sex marriage in Utah. A...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; A Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress is under fire today after a video surfaced showing him opposing a bill that to...
Hillary Clinton departs her post as Secretary of State today to an unknown future. While millions of supporters wish her well, she no doubt deserves to...
Here at The New Civil Rights Movement, we’ve worked hard to ensure our readers understand just how deep the anti-gay Christian right is embedded into Republican...
Almost overnight, Marcel Neergaard has become a national hero. The eleven-her old who created a MoveOn.org petition asking conservative education reformer Michelle Rhee to take back...
This morning President Barack Obama delivered remarks at a memorial and interfaith service for the Boston Marathon victims their families. “You will run again,” the President...
Located in Washington, D.C., the building above is the Dirksen Senate Office Building. It was named after Everett Dirksen, who served first in the U.S. House,...
A Russian Olympic athlete considered the top women’s pole vaulter in the world yesterday slammed critics of President Vladimir Putin‘s anti-gay laws by saying that Russians...