Republicans in the Michigan Legislature this week approved a resolution that seeks to overturn a decision to extend state-paid health insurance coverage to same-sex partners of state employees.

EL PASO, Texas -- An effort to block same-sex partners of city employees from obtaining health care benefits has back fired, and may strip benefits from thousands of others, including elected officials and partners of retired policemen and firefighters.

Allentown may soon become the first municipality in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley to offer medical benefits to partners of gay employees.

The surviving domestic partner of a gay Missouri state trooper killed in the line of duty has filed a lawsuit against the agency's pension system, claiming its policy for survivors' benefits discriminates against gay couples.

Federal employees insured through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program received an email on Thursday from Aetna promoting their new pet insurance plans, but DOMA still prohibits LGBT workers from covering their same-sex partners.

A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction preventing the State of Arizona from enforcing a law that would have prevented lesbian and gay state employees and their domestic partners from receiving health benefits, referring to it as illegal discrimination.

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin compensating gay and lesbian employees for an extra tax they must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits -- a tax that married straight couples are not required to pay.

President Obama is taking another step to expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of [...]

With six months left in his four-year term, Illinois state Treasurer (and candidate for U.S. Senate) Alexi Giannoulias signed an executive order on Sunday extending family-leave benefits to gay and [...]

President Obama on Wednesday extended a wider range of benefits to the same-sex partners of eligible federal workers, including access to medical treatment, relocation assistance, credit unions and fitness centers. [...]

Shipping giant FedEx announced Tuesday it will begin offering health insurance to same-sex domestic partners. The benefit won't become available until January 1, 2012, and while the company has yet [...]

The Archdiocese of Washington has changed its employee health care policy in the latest fallout from the District's decision to legalize same-sex marriage. As of Tuesday, Catholic Charities will no [...]

The recent death of a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper is once again putting the rights of same-sex couples under scrutiny. When Highway Patrol Cpl. Dennis Engelhard was killed in a Christmas Day traffic accident near Eureka, the agency described him as single with no [...]

The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of domestic-partner benefits. The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act would provide domestic partner benefits for [...]

A gay rights group has filed suit seeking damages for state employees whose families will lose their health-care coverage following the elimination this year of domestic-partner benefits. The lawsuit filed [...]