The antigay National Organization for Marriage, which provides significant financial backing to stall or repeal state-level marriage equality laws, has set its sights on New Jersey.
Marriage advocates are in a race against the clock — and the opposition of the Trenton, N.J.–based National Organization for Marriage.
“New Jersey is at the very top of our list, […]
Academy Award-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has been barred from a discussion on sexuality at Hope College in Holland, Mich., because college administrators believe his gay advocacy is divisive and not educational.
Read more on this story at the Advocate.
Following the success of their “Legalize Gay” T-shirt, American Apparel has released two more shirts with pro-gay messages.
They’re part of the company’s Library Series, a collection of four poly-cotton blend T-shirts feature black-and-white newspaper photographs from the 1980s. One shirt has an image of two men joined together marching in the 1984 West Hollywood gay […]
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act by a vote of 408-9, sending the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk.
The Senate approved the legislation last week and the president is expected to sign it based on a Statement of Administration Policy that encouraged passage of the legislation.
The bill […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it would create the first national resource center to assist communities across the country in providing services and support for older LGBT individuals.
As many as 1.5 to 4 million LGBT individuals are age 60 and older, and many agencies that serve elders may be […]
There are certain rules — explicit rules — that all made members of the mob are meant to follow: No beards. No sleeping with another gangster’s wife. No cooperation with the government in accordance with “omertà,” the Mafia code of silence.
But then there are those customs that are so engrained as part of the mob […]
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 […]
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