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Gay couples win major victory after Alaska denied them benefits for years
The state’s oil wealth fund refused to pay same-sex spouses benefits for years after marriage equality was legalized. That just ended.
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What does the Bible say about “traditional marriage values” anyway?
The reality is that our love is good, and our parenting skills are good, no better and no worse than that of heterosexuals, and in the final analysis, love is what it takes to make a family.
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The Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage 20 years ago today
Four same-sex couples married just after midnight in Amsterdam 20 years ago. Now 29 countries recognize marriage equality.
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Missouri Republicans block repeal of state’s marriage equality ban
Democrats have tried to repeal the defunct ban seven times. Republicans blocked them again.
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Marriage equality plaintiff Jim Obergefell is still fighting for LGBTQ rights
“Activism is now part of who I am. I can’t let that go.”
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Japanese court rules same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional
Japan is the only G7 country that doesn’t treat LGBTQ couples equally with shameful laws that harm them instead.
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Pope says Catholic Church can’t bless same-sex relationships because they’re “sin”
The Catholic Church says that same-sex relationships are not compatible with “the designs of God inscribed in creation.”
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Jasmine Beach-Ferrara is a gay Democrat running in North Carolina. Here’s how she says she can win.
She’s running against one of the most far-right seditionist members of Congress, Madison Cawthorn.
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Parents are outraged over an American Girl doll’s lesbian aunts
“Homosexuality is an inappropriate topic for a children’s book,” one angry parent wrote about the doll with lesbian aunts.
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Rob Portman is considered pro-LGBTQ. But he’s undercut our rights as much as he supported them.
The Senator is known for bucking the Republican Party to favor marriage equality. But he’s also voted in favor of Trump and his anti-LGBTQ advocates.