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The Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills that would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of state employees. Additionally, the measures prohibit any state government entity in Michigan from providing such benefits and prohibit unions from including them in collective bargaining agreements. [ Read more → ]

A GIRL trapped in a boy’s body has made the brave decision to return to school for the new term as a girl. The 10-year-old, a year six pupil at primary school in Worcester, was born a boy but took the decision with her family over the summer holidays to return as a girl. [ Read more → ]

Gay pioneer, writer, and neighborhood activist Arthur Evans, who lived at the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco since 1974, died Sunday, September 11 at his home. He was 68. [ Read more → ]

A Baltimore woman accused of beating a transgender woman at an area McDonald's on April 18 has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to the attack. [ Read more → ]

Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday tackled the growing controversy surrounding the upcoming appearance of transgender author and activist Chaz Bono on "Dancing With the Stars," and in during an interview with Bono, took a call from his famous mom, Cher. [ Read more → ]

A New Hampshire state House subcommittee on Wednesday endorsed a bill that would repeal the state's marriage equality law, and substitute same-sex marriage with a form of civil unions for both gay and heterosexuals couples. [ Read more → ]

A pair of measures is due for consideration and a vote in the Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday that would eliminate health care benefits for unmarried partners of public employees. [ Read more → ]

The White House late Tuesday issued a statement criticizing efforts by North Carolina lawmakers seeking a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and said the President opposes laws “designed to take rights away.” [ Read more → ]

The Oregon Republican party has voted to the remove language from the official party platform that some members saw as needlessly hostile toward gays. [ Read more → ]

Clint Eastwood: "I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of ... Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want." [ Read more → ]

Walter Righter, a bishop in the Episcopal Church and a staunch LGBT supporter among faith leaders, died Sunday at his home outside Pittsburgh. He was 87 years old. [ Read more → ]

It's time for this "we need to protect marriage" con to die. And it will. It could happen in North Carolina or Minnesota. Both states are facing anti-marriage equality votes next year. Or it could happen before then. But rest assured, it will happen. [ Read more → ]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wie Lynne appeared on ABC's "The View" on Tuesday, and eventually the conversation turned to same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

Two Florida state lawmakers have introduced a measure in both chambers of the legislature that would provide domestic partnership protections to committed same-sex couples throughout Florida. [ Read more → ]

Residents used a free-flowing public forum during Monday's Ledyard town board meeting to share their views on town clerk Rose Marie Belforti's refusal to sign same-sex marriage licenses. [ Read more → ]

The North Carolina state Senate on Tuesday approved a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, sending the measure to a statewide vote in May 2012. The Senate voted 30-16 in favor, just barely achieving the required three-fifths majority. The House approved the measure Monday... [ Read more → ]

A groundbreaking research poll commissioned by the LGBTQ charity and advocacy group Stonewall UK, showed that lesbian, gay and bisexual persons in Britain are far more likely to end up living alone and have less contact with family in later life than heterosexual people. [ Read more → ]

A Houston gay couple said they will appeal a ruling in a child custody case because the judge ordered that the divorced father of three is prohibited from ever leaving his children alone with his husband, or any other man who is not related to the children “by blood or adoption.” [ Read more → ]

RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina House of Representatives passed today, 75-42, a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition for same-sex couples. The House took up the amendment after its rushed passage through the... [ Read more → ]

When you contrast the millions upon millions of dollars that these parasitic groups of institutions have spent to marginalize and demonize LGBTQ persons against the stark reality of the needs of the poor, disadvantaged and children who need loving homes and who need to be nurtured, it is difficult to not feel disgusted and angered. [ Read more → ]