Chicago, IL — Friday evening at 7pm on March 12, 2010 activists from across the Midwest will welcome Chicago artists performing at an opening ceremony and event to kick-off an unprecedented three-day event that aims at uniting many Midwestern organizers and individuals at Chicago’s Columbia...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is stepping up internal discussions on how gay men and lesbians might be able to serve openly in the armed services, military officials said on Thursday, in anticipation of fulfilling President Obama’s campaign pledge to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. The...

This past Sunday I was invited to speak to Skylands Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to talk about ENDA and the faith community’s responsibilities to speak up and take action in support of fair workplaces on behalf of our LGBT brothers and sisters all across this nation. Skylands Fellowship sits in...

human rights BEIJING (AFP) – State press splashed a front-page photo of China’s first publicly “married” gay couple on Wednesday — the latest sign of new openness about homosexuality in a country where it has long been taboo. The page-one story in the English-language China...

(AP) WASHINGTON, DC — The DC Board of Elections and Ethics has announced it will hold a public hearing on whether the public should be able to vote on a measure to allow same-sex marriages in the nation’s capital. The board announced Thursday that it will hold a hearing Feb. 16. It will be...

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will stage its 22nd annual Creating Change Conference in Dallas on Feb. 3. Creating Change is the leading LGBT political, leadership and skills-building conference. Held in a different city each year, Dallas last hosted the event in 1994. Local co-chair Henry...

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has joined the calls for a gay couple in Malawi to be released from prison. The group said that Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who were arrested on December 28th, were “prisoners of conscience” and called for their immediate and unconditional...

VIRGINA — Loudoun County Supervisors cast a historic vote to include language in the county’s Human Resources Policy Handbook that forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Loudoun Times reports. Supervisor Stevens Miller (D-Dulles) decided to propose the...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s state Senate is set to vote on whether to legalize gay marriage. Sen. President Richard Codey has scheduled the vote for Thursday. Codey said Tuesday that the people of New Jersey “deserve the right to a formal debate on the Senate floor.” Five states...

The District of Columbia is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by opponents of same-sex marriage. The plaintiffs, led by local pastor Bishop Harry Jackson, are seeking to get their proposed ban on gay marriage on the ballot. They are suing after the Board of Elections and Ethics turned them down. City...