As anti-choice politicians and the Trump administration wage an all-out assault on reproductive freedom in states from Alabama to Ohio to Louisiana, bright spots shined through this past week in Nevada and Illinois. Bucking the trend of states attack...

  A bipartisan ­majority of the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination throughout daily life. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday, passed The Equality Act (H.R. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Monday, The Washington Blade was the first to break the news of President Donald J. Trump's opposition to the Equality Act, which is expected to be voted on in the U.S. House on Friday.   ...

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced, on Wednesday, that more than 200 of the nation’s leading businesses have now joined HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act.   ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, announced it has agreed to take up a set of potentially game-changing cases involving LGBTQ rights and the rights of transgender people in the workplace, Politico reports.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, and SAGE, the world's largest and oldest organizati...

Friday, April 12, 2019 was the day that President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military officially started.   ...

The U.S. Census Bureau recently submitted to Congress the planned questions for the 2020 census which is expected to allow respondents to specify if they are part of a same-sex couple.   ...

The former Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Co-Sponsor at a Cheyenne, Wyoming junior high was notified by email that she is no longer welcome at the school "...due to incidents that have occurred at McCormick...”, KGWN reports.   &nbs...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, ahead of the first-ever hearing on the Equality Act tomorrow in the House Judiciary Committee, civil rights leaders and advocates joined Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon on Capitol Hill to highlight the critical need,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed a non-binding resolution rejecting President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving openly in the military. The resolution was sponsored by U.S. Representative Jos...

At United Nations Plaza in San Francisco, Gilbert Baker (far left), Lynn Segerblom next to him, Robert Guttman next to her and unknown individual on the far right. There were two versions of the original flag, including this one and the stripes onl...

“This is a major victory in our fight to ensure everyone living with HIV can serve their country without discrimination.”   ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Today, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Defense and Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick...

On a largely party-line 54-45 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed William Barr, on Thursday, as President Donald J. Trump’s next U.S. attorney general — a move that has put equality groups on guard amid indications he’d continue anti-LGBT policy and atta...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-4-MA) lead efforts for a resolution opposing President Trump’s ban on openly transgender servicemembers from serving in the U.S. military and urging the Department of Defense to not rei...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Thursday, in a show of solidarity and bipartisanship, members of both houses of Congress introduced parallel Bills to protect the service of transgender service members and hopeful recruits. If passed, these efforts would&n...

The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization is reiterating its call for the U.S. Senate to oppose President Donald J. Trump's nomination of William Barr as Attorney General of the United States. The Human Rights Campaign, on Thursday, also c...

  In preparation for President Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address tonight, several Members of Congress have chosen to invite actively-serving and veteran transgender service members to attend the event as their honored guests: &nbs...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on Wednesday, granted a waiver from federal non-discrimination requirements to South Carolina’s Foster Care Program, which has contracted with a child welfare provider who seeks permission to refuse ...

National equality organizations are suiting up following Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision granting the Trump administration’s request to begin implementing its ban on military service by transgender people.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), on Wednesday, released a letter calling on the Senate to reject the Trump-Pence White House’s nomination of William Barr as Attorney General of the United States.   ...

Logan Paul, 23, is a YouTube and internet personality who has been embroiled in controversy. Last January, Paul posted a video of him filming the dead body of a suicide victim hanging from a tree in Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, known as Japan’s “Suicid...

Fresh off of taking their respective oaths of office, the now seated governors of Michigan and Wisconsin signed, on Monday, executive orders barring anti-LGBT discrimination in state government.   ...

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Protections will be included in U.S. House Rules for First Time Ever   WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States House of Representatives has passed an historic rules package that bans discr...

Lambda Legal, on Friday,  urged the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asking the Court to stay enforcement of the preliminary injunctions that have kept the Trump administration from implementing...

A federal district court heard oral argument, Nov. 30, in the Trump administration’s effort to have Lambda Legal’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) dismissed. L...

 Trump-Pence White House and Secretary Pompeo have so far refused to publicly condemn the systematic torture, abuse and the murder of LGBTQ people in Chechnya   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s large...

Vice President Mike Pence hosted the White House’s World HIV/AIDS Day event on Thursday where he failed to acknowledge the LGBTQ+ community for the second year in a row and lied about the administration's record combating HIV/AIDS. Here are some of t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to advance controversial judicial nominee Thomas Farr to be a federal judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50...

“Yet again, the Trump administration flouts established norms and procedures. There is no valid reason to jump the line now and seek U.S. Supreme Court review before the appellate courts have even ruled on the preliminary issues before them.”  ...

Lambda Legal, on Tuesday, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a 65-year-old gay man seeking spousal survivor’s benefits based on his 43-year relationship with his husband, who died seven months after Ari...

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos has proposed an extensive overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual assaults. The changes to Title IX would suppress the voices of survivors of rape and sexual assault and make it easier for thei...

A new report released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes from the previous year in the United States. These statistics highlight the ongoing epidemic of hate violence against mar...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Lawyers from the Department of Justice argued to the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, that civil rights protections banning sex discrimination in the workplace do not cover transgender employees.   ...

NYT reports that HHS intends to adopt an anti-transgender definition of “sex” that would exclude transgender people from federal non-discrimination protections -- a move that could then erase LGBTQ protections across other federal agencies   H...

Last year deadliest on record for transgender community, with victims predominantly women of color   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An anti-LGBTQ amendment which was added by the House Appropriations Committee to the FY 2019 Labor, HHS & Education Appropriations bill in July was defeated on Wednesday.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielse...

DENVER, Co. — A U.S. District Court Judge, on Wednesday, ruled that the U.S. State Department exceeded its authority under the Passport Act of 1926 when it denied a passport to Lambda Legal client Dana Zzyym, a U.S. Navy veteran who is intersex and n...

The procedure for changing gender markers on U.S. passports has not changed.   Though the current passport gender marker policy remains unchanged, language concerning the process for changing gender markers on U.S. passports was altered or rem...

WASHINGTON, DC – NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists is pleased to announce its 2018-2019 national board of directors.   ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, called for action one year after Donald Trump and Mike Pence attempted to end the Deferre...

SAGE applauds the state’s efforts to amend its laws to be more inclusive of LGBT elders   SACRAMENTO, Ca. — California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, Aug. 25, legislation to ensure that LGBT older people have equal access to vital gover...

The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists has announced that its 2019 National Convention will be held August 29 - September 1, 2019 in New Orleans, LA.    ...

“The Court today struck a blow for me and for all senior citizens – gay or straight – who deserve to feel safe and to be treated with respect. That’s not too much to ask.”   ...

The brief challenges the legal rights of transgender adults to equal employment.   In defiance of two decades of federal case law, officials from sixteen states have asked the Supreme Court to declare transgender people have zero employment pr...

TALLAHASSEE, Fl. – The federal court in Tallahassee, on Wednesday, ruled in favor of Reiyn Keohane, a transgender woman currently incarcerated at the Walton Correctional Institution.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - OutServe-SLDN is applauding Rep. Jackie Speir's (D-CA) amendment the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which was signed on Monday by President Donald Trump.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Justice (DOJ) cal...

On October 19, 2017, millions of Americans and people around the world will “go purple” on Spirit Day in a stand against bullying and in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. In an effort to close the gap between gr...

The Boy Scouts of America's board of directors announced today that the organization unanimously agreed to welcome girls into the Cub Scout program and to forge a path for older girls to pursue and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout. ...

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump notified the people of the United States on Twitter that transgender people will no longer be able to serve openly in the United States military. ...

WASHINGTON , DC - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released a report detailing why President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supre...

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – On Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, responded to the release of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Ha...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released the following statement ahead of Hillary Clinton’s speech ad...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released the following statement after a new national poll shows Americans are str...

The transgender community and its allies are already out in full force against various “bathroom bills” being proposed by GOP-led legislatures, and an anti-LGBTQ/anti-trans platform from the Republican Party. But what if someone was ejected from a ga...

President Barack Obama issued his final Presidential Proclamation marking LGBT Pride Month this week. The president, who will leave office in January 2017, leaves behind an unrivaled legacy both in word and deed of procuring and furthering equal righ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79, according to multiple news reports. ...

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) became the first G.O.P. Senator to co-sponsor the federal Equality Act this week. The comprehensive legislation would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans from discrimination. ...

The New York City Commission On Human Rights has officially banned willful misuse of gender pronouns as part of a new update to the city’s 1945 Human Rights Law. ...

  The memorial service for 42-year-old Daniel Kaufman took place this Saturday, honoring the gay man who was murdered while working at a coffee cart inside the Inland Regional Center for people with disabilities in San Bernardino. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Secretary of Defense on Thursday said he’s ordering the military to open all combat jobs to women, Politico reports. The directive overrules Marine Corps commanders who requested exceptions for a small number of front-line...

LOS ANGELES, Ca. — Marriages by same-sex couples have generated an estimated $813 million boost to state and local economies and $52 million in state and local sales tax revenue since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision extending marriage equality nati...

Family Research Council president and hate group leader Tony Perkins is weighing in on a new California policy allowing transgender prisoners to obtain gender reassignment surgery, which he describes as “rewarding people who don’t just break the stat...

  In her book, "Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography," Victoria Price explored the many facets of her famous father. The Hollywood legend, who died in 1993, enjoyed a career on stage and screen that spanned some 60 years and the urbane actor...

  President Obama just gave Amanda Simpson a worthy promotion from Executive Director of the U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy. ...

A hardware store owner says he’s already sold out of hats and bumper stickers, but he’s having more shipped in by the end of the week   Hardware store owner Jeff Amyx clearly doesn’t like gay people. ...

WASHINGTON — Last weekend on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, pundit Danielle Moodie-Mills suggested that traditional and digital media outlets should get fined by the FCC every time they mis-genderedtransgender people. ...

The Boy Scouts of America voted on Monday to end its ban on gay adult scout leaders due to a “sea change in the law with respect to gay rights.” ...

NEW YORK –– On Thursday afternoon, Buzzfeed reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that pre-existing civil rights laws –– namely, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 –– already prohibits sexuality-based discr...

Pentagon leaders announced today they are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the military, essentially lifting one of the last barriers to LGBT military service, the Associated Press reports. ...

Married same-sex couples will receive full federal benefits - including Social Security and veterans spousal benefits - following last month's Supreme Court decision making marriage equality the law of the land. ...

  A three-judge panel with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled Puerto Rico’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, the Washington Blade reports. ...

The Episcopal Church on Wednesday adopted a resolution that will allow clergy to marry same-sex couples, The Washington Blade reports. ...

       VICTORY!     The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry legalizing marriage equality across the land.    ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - Boy Scouts of America President Dr. Robert Gates today told the organization that he thinks the current ban on gay adults is unsustainable and is formally re-opening the conversation about adult inclusion in the Boy Scouts.   ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — A new Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that, for the first time, a majority of Americans say same-sex orientation is something gays and lesbians are born with, rather than something that is determined by their upbringing or envi...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Tuesday announced he is introducing into Congress the first nationwide bill that would ban on so-called “conversion therapy.”   ...

  Historic arguments on same-sex marriage took place at the Supreme Court Tuesday.    ...

  WASHINGTON - The Washington Blade reports that a Missouri congresswoman has introduced a resolution in the U.S. House calling on Congress to disapprove a bill affirmed by the D.C. City Council and signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser that would ba...

Four women, including former U.S. First Lady and confirmed bisexual Eleanor Roosevelt, have been selected as finalists by organizers pushing to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, USA Today reports.   ...

  One of the nation's largest religious denominations has amended its definition of marriage to include a "commitment between two people," thus recognizing same-sex marriage in its Christian church constitution.   ...

  ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Construction of the iconic blue and yellow IKEA store, the world's leading home furnishings retailer, is well underway on 21 acres along Interstate-64 at Vandeventer Avenue not far from the city's Grove gayborhood.  ...

  Nearly six in ten Americans say they support legalizing same-sex marriage, the highest level of support ever recorded in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. ...

  America’s racial history “still casts its long shadow upon us,” President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists whose beatings by police a half-century ago galvanized much of the na...

  The Obama Administration on Friday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the high court to strike down same-sex marriage bans across the nation.   ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vice President Joe Biden addressed the Human Rights Campaign's Spring Equity Convention on Friday in the nation's capital proclaiming that LGBT Americans are fighting for the same rights to equality that were born 50 years ago in S...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday released long-awaited guidance to ensure equal access for transgender people in homeless shelters that receive federal funding. ...

  Sixty-three percent of Americans say that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry and have their marriages recognized by the law as valid, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Thursday.   ...

  WASHINGTON — In a new interview Wednesday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talks with Bloomberg about the outlook for legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation. ...

  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), joined by 11 fellow GOP Senators, re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act on Tuesday, a bill that would require the federal government to recognize only marriages that are valid under the laws...

  NEW YORK - Services and Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) announced on Tuesday plans for a national strategy to address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) elder housing needs.    ...

  Bryan Fischer, the virulently anti-gay mouthpiece of the American Family Association, has reportedly been stripped of his position as group’s official spokesperson and Director of Issues Analysis, but will retain his daily radio progra...

  WASHINGTON — Speaking before a joint session of Congress, including members of the U.S. Supreme Court who will decide the fate of marriage equality in the months to come, President Barack Obama praised the issue on Tuesday as “a s...

Former anti-gay activist and conversion therapy proponent Randy Thomas, who once served as vice-president of the now defunct “ex-gay” therapy group Exodus International, has come out as gay. ...

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has just reported that The Supreme Court has announced it will decide whether same-sex couples nationwide have a right to marry under the Constitution. ...

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The city of West Hollywood plans to require gender-neutral restrooms to accommodate individuals’ whose gender identity conflicts with their ascribed biological sex.   ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take on a same-sex marriage case from Louisiana that remains under review in a federal appeals court, but otherwise took no action on cases from four other states. ...

  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases on Friday as gay rights activists eagerly awaited news that it might consider a new round of cases challenging states’ ability to ban same-sex marriage.   ...

    WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers kicked off the 114th Congress on Tuesday by reintroducing the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would fully repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.   ...

  WASHINGTON — Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will not reconvene to continue discussions or to recommend an end to the lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.   ...

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act has contributed to a significant increase in the number of same-sex couples marrying – even in states that had marriage equality long be...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new regulations that would require hospitals that accept Medicare or Medicaid to recognize same-sex spouses as a condition for participation.   ...

  WASHINGTON — Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet this week to consider a recommendation that it end its lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with men.   ...

  URBANA, Ill. – Lambda Legal has announced that it learned late last Friday of the death of Naya Taylor, who unexpectedly passed away after complications from a heart attack.   ...

  WASHINGTON -- After close consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing guidance to same-sex married couples on the benefits and services to which they are entitled under current law...

  With just days left before the end of Missouri’s legislative session this week, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth has come out in support of the LGBT-inclusive Missouri Non-discrimination Act (MONA).    ...

  TOPEKA, Kan. — Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, is near death in a local hospice, according to a Facebook post Saturday night by his son Nathan Phelps. ...