Forcing The Spring: The Becker Marriage Equality Book Outrage
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— To say there’s been a flurry of discussion around the release of a new book Tuesday on the legal case…
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Coakley Unveils Plan to Support LGBTQ Community
Focus On Youth, Bullying Prevention, Public Health BOSTON, Mass.—Attorney General Martha Coakley, a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, called for greater efforts to better the…
10th Circuit: Will Banning Same-Sex Couples from Marrying Violate the Constitution?
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week will become the second federal appeals court to tackle the question…
Creep of the Week: Anti-Gay & Anti-Women Hobby Lobby
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— It’s really amazing that in 2014 Americans are still fighting over birth control. As in whether or not contraception makes…
Maura Healey in Historic Campaign for Massachusetts Attorney General
By: Chuck Colbert/ TRT Reporter— In closing remarks, the candidate for attorney general made her pitch quite clear: “I say as a point guard, I…
Sixth Circuit Issues Stay Until Wednesday
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a stay at 5 p.m. Saturday of a district court decision Friday…
Breaking: Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— A federal judge in Detroit ruled Friday that Michigan’s ban against same-sex couples marrying violates the couples’ constitutional rights to…
Creep of the Week: Gov. Rick Snyder, More Worried About Same-Sex Parents than His State’s Fate
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— The Michigan marriage trial, officially known as DeBoer v. Snyder for plaintiff April DeBoer and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, has…
Ruling: Tenn. to Recognize Marriages of 3 Same-sex Couples
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– NASHVILLE, Tenn.–In an important but narrow ruling, a U.S. district court judge in Nashville issued a preliminary injunction late Friday…
Same-Sex Couples & Wyoming Equality File Lawsuit Seeking Freedom to Marry
CHEYENNE, Wyoming—Today, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in state court in Cheyenne challenging Wyoming’s laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying…
Religious Extremists & LGBT Rights: What Would Jesus Do?
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist— Ted Cruz is currently championing a bill that will allow the state of Texas to regulate marriage to not include…
Pregúntale a Lambda Legal: Personas LGBT de la Tercera Edad
Por: Karen Loewy/Abogada y Estratega Principal, Programa de Personas de la Tercera Edad de Lambda Legal— P: Mi pareja y yo hemos estado juntos por…
Historic Ruling for Marriage Equality in Virginia
New progress in the Old Dominion as U.S. District Judge rules ban on marriage for gay and lesbian couples unconstitutional WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. District…
Marriage Equality Advocates Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary of “Winter of Love”
SAN FRANCISCO—Ten years ago, former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made history when he ordered the City and County of San Francisco to issue marriage…
Holder Gay Marriage Benefits Announcement Scrutinized
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a Human Rights Campaign audience in New York Saturday that, beginning Monday, he “will…
Attorney General Makes Landmark Marriage Equality Announcement from HRC NY Gala Stage
NEW YORK—At tonight’s HRC New York Dinner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced landmark changes to the way the federal government treats married lesbian and gay…
Pregúntale a Lambda Legal: El Matrimonio Civil en Utah
Por: Hayley Gorenberg/Adjunto Directora Legal para Lambda Legal— P: He estado leyendo acerca del matrimonio civil en Utah y la Corte Suprema ¿Qué tan grave…
Ask Lambda Legal: Utah Same-Sex Marriages
By: Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director Hayley Gorenberg— Dear Ask Lambda Legal – Utah Marriages Q: I’ve been reading about the Supreme Court stopping marriages…
Judge in Virginia Same-Sex Case Says She’ll Rule “Soon”
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— A federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, told attorneys in a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ban on same-sex couples marrying that she…
LGBT Momentum Report: Some Surprises
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— An independent think tank that studies the progress of the movement on equal rights for LGBT people released its latest…
Indiana House Clears the Bill
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Indiana House on Tuesday approved a proposal to change the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The vote on…
TN Brookdale Senior Living Sued for Barring Employee’s Same-Sex Spouse from Health Plan
Despite DOMA’s Demise, Employer Refused to Allow Kerry Considine to Put Her Wife on Health Insurance Plan Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has…
Macklemore and Marriage Equality Steal the Show at the Grammy’s
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— Macklemore and Ryan Lewis basked in the limelight of the Grammys’s 2014 defining performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,…