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Pop queen Lady Gaga concluded a huge European gay rights march in Rome on Saturday night with a rousing call to governments to defend gay rights.
“Today and every day we fight for freedom. We fight for justice. We beckon for compassion, understanding and above all we want full equality now,” she shouted to a crowd […]

A school board in Clovis, New Mexico, voted to ban all extra-curricular clubs from meeting during school hours after a gay-straight alliance applied to become a club.
School officials call it coincidental that the alliance applied while school policies were being reviewed, but representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico say they are […]

A group of transgender residents filed a lawsuit against New York City over what they say are burdensome requirements for them to change the gender on their birth certificates.
The city’s birth certificate requirements amount to discrimination for transgender residents, said Noah Lewis, an attorney representing the residents in the case.
New York’s Health Department requires residents […]

Critics call it legalized discrimination; supporters say it protects religious associations, schools and charities By Meghan Malloy 

An Iowa House subcommittee will consider legislation Wednesday that would allow businesses and organizations to deny services to people whose marriage violates their personal religious beliefs.
The bill, which is aimed squarely at legally married same-sex couples in Iowa, mirrors […]

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and his partner, Freedom to Marry political director Sean Eldridge, have a made a huge commitment to the nonprofit push for marriage equality nationwide. The couple will match donations made to Freedom to Marry, Empire State Pride Agenda, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and Equality Maryland for the rest of […]

Actress Julianne Moore spoke out in favor of same-sex parents as she presented “The Kids Are All Right,” a film where she and Annette Bening play a long-term lesbian couple raising their teenaged children.
The movie was screened at the Rome film festival, where Moore will receive a life-time acting award later on Tuesday.
Moore told reporters […]

At a White House reception commemorating the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, President Barack Obama told about 300 civil rights leaders that the day was a milestone toward the fair treatment of all Americans.
 
“As a nation we’ve come far on the journey towards a more perfect union. […]

Impatient and discouraged by what they see as a certain detachment by President Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets Sunday in the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade.
The rally was primarily the undertaking of a new generation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocates who have grown disillusioned […]