ABERDEEN, Miss. — Mississippi officials who canceled a prom after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend told a federal judge Monday that there were issues with the event even before that. The American Civil Liberties Union is suing in U.S. District Court to force the Itawamba County school...

JACKSON, Miss. — About a week ago, when Constance McMillan approached school officials at the Itawamba Agricultural High School about wanting to take her lesbian partner with her to the prom, she was met with scorn and discrimination. School officials advised her to get “guys” to take her...

Jena Lewis went through a sex change more than five years ago and carries a driver's license that identifies her as a female. PHOTO BY Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids Press Republican Paul Scott, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, has promised to block the possibility of transgender men...

A Clinton Township man accused of bioterrorism after biting his neighbor is garnering support from two national groups hoping the charges against him will be dropped. As previously reported, 44-year-old Daniel Allen and his 28-year-old neighbor, Winfred Fernandis Jr., got into a scuffle when a football...

Yesterday, for the first time in a decade, the Justice Department intervened in a gay rights suit. In August, an openly gay 14-year-old student named Jacob — with the help of the ACLU — sued the Mohawk Central School District in upstate New York because officials “did not appropriately respond...

Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado After meeting on Monday with the ACLU of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Department of Justice has agreed to investigate the brutal murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado as a hate crime. The Department of Justice has also agreed to work with the ACLU to train Judges and prosecutors...

Separation of Church & State Anyone? In everyone’s haste to harken back to our so-called founding fathers’ original intentions and religious convictions, it seems everyone keeps forgetting one of their most passionate beliefs: separation of church & state. During the 18th century,...