Same-sex married couples may get a tax break from Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan. The latest iteration of the Build Back Better Act would let taxpayers who were legally married under state law before 2010 claim federal tax benefits…
President Joe Biden has signed landmark infrastructure legislation that has been promised by multiple administrations but never actually accomplished. The bipartisan bill invests $1 trillion into American roads, electrical grid, and environmental projects. Out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has vowed…
Today, the religious equality watchdog American Atheists praised the Biden Administration and the Department of Labor for proposing rescission of a Trump-era regulation that allows federal contractors to discriminate against workers on the basis of religion. In December 2020, the Trump…
Social Security survivors benefits will now be available to same-sex spouses and partners who had been denied access due to previous bans on gay marriage. The Department of Justice and the Social Security Administration on Monday announced that they dismissed…
Out Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) has reintroduced legislation to protect LGBTQ veterans. It’s called the SERVE Act (Securing the Rights our Veterans Earned). It would guarantee and protect Veteran Affairs (VA) benefits for LGBTQ veterans discharged from the military due…
An openly gay congressman from New York has reintroduced a bill to track data on violent deaths involving LGBTQ victims. Last week, U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney reintroduced the LGBTQ Essential Data Act, which would authorize $25 million to fully fund…
The Biden administration made official on Wednesday its position that discrimination against LGBTQ kids in schools is illegal under federal law at a time when states have enacted measures prohibiting transgender kids from playing in school sports or obtaining transition-related…
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