We fight, and we fight, and we fight. It’s true that LGBT activists are fighting a multi-front battle with little resources. Most of us are stretched thin. Many of us do what we do unpaid, under-appreciated, and sometimes even unrecognized. We manage the weight of our careers, our families,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Servicemembers United, the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, today released a newly obtained document from the National Guard Bureau showing 630 additional discharges pursuant to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law...

Sen. Jim Forrester, a Gaston County Republican, is trying once again to write a ban on same-sex marriages into the N.C. Constitution. Forrester has authored several similar bills in previous legislative sessions in an attempt to push an amendment to the state Constitution banning marriage equality measures....

A moderate Republican gubernatorial candidate and his openly gayrunning mate, Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei, are the target of a Massachusetts-based right-wing group. MassResistance (Massresistance.org )has spoken against the Republican nominees for the upcoming gubernatorial race in that state. On...

California State Sen. Roy Ashburn has become the first gay recipient of the “Pink Brick Award.” The award, given by the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Committee, highlights a person (or organization) who has done the most to anger and/or disappoint the gay community....

NOTE: The following story was originally published via the Huffington Post. Efforts to proofread and correct grammatical errors, as well as errors in reference to the transgender men and women involved have been made to the best of our ability. New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members...

(The Hague, Netherlands) A retired American general has apologized for a remark to the U.S. Senate suggesting gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for the Srebrenica massacre by Serb soldiers in Bosnia, according to the Defense Ministry. The comment by retired Gen. John Sheehan during testimony opposing...

(CNN) — A Mississippi lesbian Tuesday won a judge’s backing for her contention that her First Amendment rights were violated when her high school refused to allow her to attend her prom with her girlfriend. But U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson refused to order the Itawamba County School...

Southern states are notoriously red, unapologetically conservative, and not necessarily touted as popular hot spots for social reform. That being said, it came as no surprise to the nation when a Mississippi school district made national news for cancelling its senior prom rather than letting a young,...

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...