Steny Hoyer

“Kevin can’t do anything about me!” Marjorie Taylor Greene said proudly, laughing as she got a standing ovation from Republicans.

Democrats could finally outlaw anti-LGBTQ discrimination after all these years.

In an exclusive interview, she tells LGBTQ Nation why she’s challenging House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and what kept her in the closet.

Ghosts of midterm’s past have not seemed to haunt Democrat leaders in the present into effectively planning for the future. Will they avoid repeating their mistakes?

The amendment sought to strike an Obama-era practice of requiring the Pentagon to pay for gender transition surgeries and hormone therapy.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer FTW.

Kristin Beck, a transgender former Navy SEAL, is planning a primary challenge to the second-ranking Democrat in the House, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer.

WASHINGTON — Nearly 200 Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday calling for an Executive Order banning contractors from receiving federal government contracts unless they have a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives’ continuing effort to defend the federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) will soon reach $3 million. Late Monday, House Democrats learned that Republican leadership had again privately raised the spending cap with attorney Paul Clement and the Washington-based law firm Bancroft LLC to defend DOMA in the U.S. […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Monday condemned efforts by House Republicans to prevent a decorated 12-year U.S. Army veteran and other married gay and lesbian veterans from receiving the same disability benefits provided to their married heterosexual counterparts.

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders are continuing to criticize Speaker John Boehner for defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court and accuse him of going beyond his existing authority in defense of the anti-gay law ahead of his planned intervention in a lesbian veteran’s litigation against the statute.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 132 other Democrats on Thursday joined in the fight to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in court by filing a legal brief in support of litigation against the anti-gay law.

House GOP leadership took a key step this week that will allow it to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman