Guest post by Ging Cristobal, Asia Project Coordinator International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission  The Ninth Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Civil Society Conference/ASEAN...
 They marched forward, dignified and determined, willing to put it all on the line for equality. “I am somebody!†The crowd around them full of...
President Barack Obama included gay people among those who died in the Holocaust who “must never be forgotten.” The President was speaking today, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at...
Maggie Gallagher is using GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum to beef up her new venture, by asking email list recipients (apparently, including me!) to “Thank Rick Santorum...
Under a President Mitt Romney, there are at least 22 advances in LGBT civil rights delivered by President Barack Obama that most likely will disappear. While...
Genocide comes in many forms. From the calculated attacks on Bosnian Muslims and Croats two decades ago, to calls for rounding up gays and lesbians today,...
President Obama today will announce a new immigration policy that stops deportation of some undocumented immigrants and effectively treats “young people” who would be eligible for...
Rick Santorum has found someone even more anti-gay and anti-Islam than he is, so naturally he has installed him as his honorary Chair of his Florida...
A lawmaker in Tennessee, one day after the suicide death of fourteen-year old gay Tennessee teen Phillip Parker, wrote a constituent telling her that a gay person...
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,...
President Barack Obama today, in his first official re-election campaign kick-off speech, said that a return to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) “would be a betrayal...
This is Part II. Please click to continue to Part III. Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, there is a certain crowd in...
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...
Tuesday night the GOP held the 14th Tea Party and Republican Party debate, this time sponsored by CNN, the very conservative Heritage Foundation and equally-​conservative American...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women advocates of non-violent action; UK’s Prime Minister endorses gay marriage to party loyalists– Tories and religious leaders protest strongly; the American”Occupy” movement exponentially explodes....