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  • AG Holder sends letter to Speaker Boehner explaining DOMA decision

    Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to House Speaker Boehner on Wednesday explaining in further detail why he and President Barack Obama have made the decision to stop defending the Defense Of Marriage Act in court. Full text […]

  • LGBT community breathes sigh of relief over Obama’s 2012 federal budget

    There was relatively little for the LGBT and HIV communities to complain about in the proposed 2012 budget released by President Obama Monday. Given the proposed five-year freeze in non-essential domestic spending, there were sighs of relief.

  • White House issues statement honoring murdered Ugandan gay rights activist

    The White House today issued a statement by President Barack Obama regarding the murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato, who was found having been beaten in the skull with a hammer a his home.

  • Obama makes three prominent LGBT appointments to administration, judgeship

    President Obama on Wednesday appointed two prominent gays to important positions in his administration and nominated an openly gay attorney to a judgeship for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • Obama promises gays in the military ‘this year’ in ‘State of the Union’ address

    President Obama once again brought up the issue of gays in the military during his annual State of the Union address. Last year, he called for repeal of the federal law barring openly gay people from serving. This year, just a month after having signed a bill to repeal that law, the president…

  • Obama’s Gay State of the Union

    Obama’s relationship with the LGBT community has been much like a stormy marriage that is saved by the husband delivering bouquets of red roses only moments before the divorce papers arrive. With flowers in hand, the disillusioned spouse remembers why she fell in love in the first place…

  • Obama’s flip-flop on gay marriage: What changed between 1996 and 2011?

    Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged the subject of same-sex marriage at Monday’s press briefing when Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson grilled him on President Barack Obama’s apparent flip-flop on gay marriage.

    • 2010

  • ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ — The Ghost Is Slain

    Anti-gay activists have long considered 1993’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” compromise one of their most prized victories. In one fell swoop, they humiliated President Bill Clinton, flexed their political muscle, and put lesbian and gay people in their place.

  • President Obama signs ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal — ‘It’s a good day’

    WASHINGTON — This morning, before packed audience in the Sydney Yates auditorium at the U. S. Department of the Interior building, President Barack Obama signed the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” into law.

  • ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal: the perfect alignment, with a price

    The suspense is over: The U.S. Senate finally took a vote on a bill to repeal the ban on openly gay people in the military and passed it, 65 to 31. Having Congress pass that bill, to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and having that bill signed by the President is an important legislative and political milestone.