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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. “I just don’t agree...

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. On yesterday’s edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly weighed...

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.” The BSA's full executive board voted 45-12 in favor of the...

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 discrimination (or sex...

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. "Today's Department of Defense announcement is a...

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. In an exclusive statement to the Washington Blade, U.S....

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. Via the Washington Blade: U.S. Circuit Court Judges Juan Torruella, Ojetta Rogerlee Thompson and William Kayatta, Jr.,...

The Episcopal Church on Wednesday adopted a resolution that will allow clergy to marry same-sex couples, The Washington Blade reports. Members of the House of Bishops, which is the denomination’s governing body, on Monday approved the resolution by a 129-26...

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. The 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges comes as cities across the...

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. Gates,...

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...

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.” The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act would be the first federal law to protect LGBT...

Historic arguments on same-sex marriage took place at the Supreme Court Tuesday. The Washington Blade: The historic oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday on pending marriage cases consisted of tough questioning for attorneys on both...

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 ban...

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. "There are so few reminders...

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. The historic vote on Tuesday night by The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)...

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. While the...

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. In the new survey released Monday, 59 percent of respondents said that they support marriage...

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 nation against racial...

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. “The laws they challenge exclude a long-mistreated class of human beings from a legal...