By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– For the hundred-plus LGBT bloggers, activists, journalists, and community leaders who attended the Netroots Nation conference in Providence, Rhode Island, last…
Imagine being denied access to a loved one who is critically ill or dying. For the more than 9 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), and a coalition of partners today launched an innovative multimedia effort…
WASHINGTON — Trans United for Obama, a national volunteer effort, has launched a campaign to rally transgender people, their allies, families, and supporters in the…
Washington, DC — A flawed, misleading, and scientifically unsound paper that seeks to disparage lesbian and gay parents was roundly criticized by organizations that protect and advance…
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– Prayers and petitions to the patron saint of Boston Pride were made. And Barbra Streisand delivered. For the first time in…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Leslie Feinberg was arrested last night amidst hundreds of Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald supporters protesting outside of the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility….
New HRC President Chad Griffin calls tremendous disparities between LGBT and straight young people a call to action WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign – the…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– A glimmer of politics showed through Tuesday (June 5) when the full Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined a…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– A unanimous three-judge panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today (Thursday, May 31) that the core…
By: Linda DeMarco/President of Boston Pride– Pride Week is finally almost upon us and 2012 is already promising to be an important year for an…
By: Jason Cianciotto & Sean Cahill*/Special for TRT– As parades and celebrations occur across the Bay State, LGBT youth are putting their pride into action…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Lambda Legal Defense and the ACLU filed separate lawsuits Wednesday (May 30), seeking the right to marry for same-sex couples…
By: Casey Rocheteau/TRT Reporter– The fight for marriage equality in Rhode Island got a thrust in the right direction May 14, when Governor Lincoln Chafee…
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– When Scott Brown first ran for election to the US Senate in 2010 he promised not to be “another loud and…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Saying that the NAACP has “always stood against laws that demean, dehumanize, and discriminate against people,” NAACP Board Chairman Roslyn…
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– Two anti-gay measures have been introduced in the House Armed Services Committee in an apparent attempt to undermine the successful implementation…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Despite a warning that President Obama may exercise his veto power, the U.S. House Wednesday (May 16) approved a version…
By: Gautam Raghavan*/White House– A couple of days ago, in an interview with ABC News, President Obama articulated his support for marriage equality, saying “I think…
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter– This afternoon, The Rainbow Times caught up with local community leaders on their response to President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage…
By Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– President Obama said in a White House-arranged interview Wednesday afternoon that “same-sex couples should be able to get married.” The…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– BOSTON – Three Iowa state Supreme Court justices ousted by voters in 2010 for ruling that same-sex couples were due…
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter– A new House version of the Violence Against Women Act leaves LGBT, immigrant and Native women and men without vital services…