Category: Politics

Obama renews campaign pledges to repeal ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,’ ‘DOMA’ at HRC dinner

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama, struggling to keep promises made during his presidential campaign, renewed his pledge to end the military's ban on openly gay service members and once again called for repeal the [...]

Barney Frank calls National Equality March a ‘waste of time’

Rep. Barney Frank, an openly gay member of Congress, says he'd rather see gay rights supporters lobbying their elected officials than marching in Washington this weekend, calling the demonstration "a waste of time at [...]

Obama to appoint gay attorney to Ambassador post

President Obama is preparing to nominate his first openly gay ambassador, according to a knowledgeable source. David Huebner, who serves as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's general counsel, will be nominated to become [...]

Education department official expresses regret for controversial incident

A senior official of the Department of Education expressed regret Wednesday for an incident that happened when he was a young teacher in the late 1980s, saying he should have handled it differently, but that [...]

Illinois Treasurer running for U.S. Senate, favors legalizing gay marriage

[caption id="attachment_1296" align="alignleft" width="275" caption="Alexi Giannoulias"][/caption] Alexi Giannoulias is running for the U.S. Senate, and says he favors legalization of same-sex marriage and repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. The 33 year old Illinois [...]

Sen. Ted Kennedy, longtime advocate for LGBT issues, dead at 77

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died shortly before Midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He was 77. The man known as the "liberal lion [...]

Bill to end LGBT workplace discrimination introduced in Senate

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace bias based on sexual orientation and gender discrimination, has a chance of becoming law by the end of 2009, according to Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., its lead [...]

NY Senator takes action against ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Monday cemented her stand on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, announcing a hearing to repeal what she called “an unfair, outdated measure that violates the [...]