This personal reflection on testifying before a Maryland House committee comes from HRC’s Youth and Campus Outreach Associate Director, Candace Gingrich-Jones: Yesterday I had the honor of traveling with my wife to Annapolis to testify against HB 90 in front of the Maryland House Judiciary Committee....

Employees of Pennsylvania’s court system who are in same-sex relationships will now be entitled to the same benefits as their heterosexual married counterparts. The domestic-partner policy, announced Jan. 29 to all employees through a memo with their paystubs, will allow the partners of gay and lesbian...

Chuck Iavarone, a U.S. Soldier, has tired of living two lives. Chuck Iavarone was 19 when he decided to start living his life as an openly gay man. He came out after he graduated from Cicero-North Syracuse High School. He started college, but left after the Sept. 11 attacks to join the U.S. Army Reserve. He...

(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...

Marchers in support of civil unions arrive at the Statehouse in Montpelier for a rally in October 2000. Tension built throughout 1999 as month after month passed without a decision from the Vermont Supreme Court on a case that challenged the justices to decide whether gay and lesbian couples were entitled...

The Milwaukee County Board Thursday narrowly upheld County Executive Scott Walker’s veto of a measure that would have laid the groundwork for establishing health benefits for domestic partners of county workers. Advocates of the measure defended domestic partner benefits as an issue of fairness. “It’s...

Human Rights Campaign From Human Rights Campaign: WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today praised the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for marking up S. 1102, the Domestic...

VIENNA — Austria’s parliament passed legislation Thursday allowing homosexual couples to enter into civil unions, a move hailed by proponents as a historic win for gay rights in the country. The bill, slated to become law Jan. 1., will give same-sex couples a series of rights enjoyed by...

DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a gay man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple should be permitted to see his 3-year-old son regularly — in part because Ireland’s constitution doesn’t recognize the lesbians as a valid family unit. The ruling was a legal...