On Tuesday, a 15-4 vote by the Jacksonville City Council restored the town’s LGBTQ non-discrimination protections after a Florida appeals court struck it down due to a legislative technicality in May. Mayor Lenny Curry has signaled that he will sign the…
Residents of Ketchikan, Alaska, have rallied around a same-sex couple denied flowers for their wedding by a local florist. Tommy Varela, who lives in Illinois but grew up in Ketchikan, and his fiancé, Stephen Kossak, plan to marry in the…
On Friday Anderson Cooper, the popular host of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 will make history, covering the first-ever Pride issue of People Magazine. But, he won’t appear alone. For the momentous occasion, Cooper will appear in his new role as a dad…
The Human Rights Campaign has endorsed 16 candidates challenging incumbent members of Congress as part of an effort to expand the number of pro-equality members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The national LGBTQ rights organization threw its weight behind several…
Michelangelo Signorile has argued that outing a prominent Republican senator would be justified if he has a history of opposing LGBTQ rights. The journalist, author, and host of The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM defended the practice of outing…
Lori Lightfoot is taking a stand against homophobic cops. The first Black lesbian mayor of Chicago has promised to fire a police officer who was caught on camera hurling an antigay slur at protesters after a projectile was thrown…
Rosemary Ketchum has just become the first openly transgender person elected to office in West Virginia. Ketchum was elected to the Wheeling City Council Tuesday, besting three others in the nonpartisan race, local TV station WTRF reports. She will represent the…
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