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Major investors are joining the fight against North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law
About 60 investors representing $2.1 trillion in managed assets are joining the call for North Carolina to repeal its law.
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Judge: employer’s religious freedom outweighs transgender civil rights
This ruling may set a potentially devastating precedent for trans people that can be traced to the Hobby Lobby decision.
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Hillary Clinton has become a true mensch to the LGBT community
In traveling her moral spiral of progress, Hillary Clinton has bent toward justice. And yes, she is a true mensch.
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‘You beat us… you kill us:’ Brian Sims demands PA. pass LGBTQ rights
“This state has spent far too long putting a bullseye on my back and the backs of the people standing with me,” Sims declared.
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Why weren’t there any gay people on Star Trek?
George Takei explains.
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Obama invokes gay rights struggle in marking Selma civil rights milestone
“We’re the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge.”
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50 years after Selma, Joe Biden draws parallels between LGBT rights, civil rights
LGBT Americans are fighting for the same rights to equality that African Americans fought for decades ago, says Biden.
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GLAD’s Mary Bonauto receives MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’
CHICAGO — Mary L. Bonauto, the Civil Rights Project Director for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), has been awarded a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes referred to as a “genius grant.” The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced on Wednesday this year’s recipients of the grants that have been …
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Dear Matt Barber: Calling yourself a Christian does not make it so
Calling yourself a Christian does not give you special privileges in this country. Calling yourself a Christian does not make you a better American than me. And calling yourself a Christian does not absolve you from rights and responsibilities that all Americans have. This is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian nation, and the rest of us who don’t practice your beliefs do not exist here for your will and pleasure.
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Boies, Olson: ‘We’re trying to bring marriage equality to every state in the Union’
AUSTIN, Texas — David Boies and Ted Olson, the legal team who helped take down California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, were on hand for the the kick-off Tuesday of the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.