The Obama administration announced last week that it will no longer defend in court a part of the Defense of Marriage Act that forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage. One widow’s story was one of two cases pending in federal courts cited in the announcement of President...

The last week has been an absolute roller coaster for LGBT servicemembers, recruits, veterans, and family members. Tens of thousands sit back, comb the headlines, and wait with baited breathe. The most recent news to hit CNN doesn’t sound promising. In fact, it sounds like the Justice Department...

This week marks a victory in a battle our country’s LGBT activists have been fighting for over four decades, and conversely the first step in ending an oppression that has existed in our country for lifetimes. The Defense Department issued an order to the U.S. Army Recruiting Command to begin...

The cat’s out of the bag, and everybody’s talking about it — U.S. district court judge Virginia Phillips has ordered the suspension of all investigations, discharges, and other such activities conducted under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. Fears are thick...

I just love David Badash to bits and pieces, and if you are unfamiliar with his work in the fight for our equality, well … what rock have you been living under? At any rate, he has an amazing site called, “The New Civil Rights Movement,” that I highly recommend you check out immediately,...

A ranking Saudi diplomat told NBC News that he has asked for political asylum in the United States, saying he fears for his life if he is forced to return to his native country. The diplomat, Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed U.S. Department of...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A gay couple has filed a federal lawsuit in Cheyenne challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman. David Shupe-Roderick, 25, and Ryan W. Dupree, 21, who are representing themselves in court, although neither is a lawyer said the Laramie...

As many of you may have already figured out, we hear at Speak Equal took a bit of a blogging recess this past summer. Nothing horribly and dramatic happened, merely several of our teammates and moving parts had a summer chock full of classes, work, training, and travel. With that being said, it’s...

A prominent gay rights organization says eight of 17 Washington-area hospitals do not explicitly include a reference to sexual orientation in their patient nondiscrimination policies. The report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation follows President Barack Obama’s mandate that...

The Minnesota Family Council is attempting to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit seeking legal gay marriage in Minnesota. The group is represented by Alliance Defense Fund attorney Jordan Lorence, who frequently represents conservative Christian groups around the country in gay rights cases. He’s...