With a wave of recent victories, marriage equality throughout the United States seems inevitable but much more needs to be done in areas such as immigration, poverty, and global rights. That was the ...

Editor's note: This commentary was originally published online Dec. 4, and updated for print Dec. 8. An Oct. 30 announcement by a new ballot question committee, Fair Michigan – formed by attorney Dana ...

A pastor who this week derailed Michigan’s proposed non-discrimination ordinance is now calling Matthew Shepard a “criminal” and “a victim of his own lascivious lifestyle.” This week a pastor spoke ...

RALEIGH, NC -- A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can't be enforced, The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The Justice ...

The modern LGBT civil rights movement began when a bunch of tipsy queens in a gay bar decided to fight back. Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and every year we have parades and ...

Teacher Kimberly Hively alleged Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend, Ind., denied her a full-time job because she is a lesbian. On Tuesday, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said such ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

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