Edward Markey

Two months after entering jail, he was using a wheelchair and unable to speak, his mother says.

Progressives are divided over the important internet legislation, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren on one side and the ACLU on the other. Will KOSA ruin the internet for LGBTQ+ youth. or will it protect them?

She wrote a long “manifesto” in which she called LGBTQ+ people sex abusers and conversion therapy “successful.”

The resolution calls for Congress to protect trans people from violence, discrimination, and more.

The bill is a rebuke of Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back LGBTQ human rights in international law.

Killing someone because they’re LGBTQ “is not a defense, it is a hate crime.”

The International Human Rights Defense Act would appoint a special envoy within the U.S. Department of State to coordinate efforts to prevent discrimination and advance the rights of LGBT people worldwide.

BOSTON — As the nation celebrates National LBGT Pride Month, U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, on Friday introduced legislation that would affirm LGBT human rights are a foreign policy priority for the U.S. government.

WASHINGTON — At least two U.S. Senators are speaking out over growing concerns of Russia’s anti-gay laws, and how enforcement of those laws would affect athletes and spectators attending the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

MEDFORD, Mass. — An openly gay Massachusetts state lawmaker has announced plans to seek a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives should U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D) be successful in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry.