Creep of the Week: Anti-Gay Liberty Ridge Farm
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— While I’ve never been there in person, Liberty Ridge Farm looks like a beautiful place according to the photos on…
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Chelsea Manning Responds to Government Move to Dismiss Lawsuit Seeking Health Care for Gender Dysphoria
The Department of Justice has filed a brief In Chelsea Manning’s case against the United States government challenging her request to grow her hair beyond the two…
Stonewall Transgender Woman Celebrates Marriage Equality Decision
By: Erica Kay-Webster— WEST BARNSTABLE, Mass—At The Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969 we firmly stood our ground and refused to surrender to the injustices that…
LGBTQ Discrimination in the Workplace: Local Orgs. Provide Support
By: Clara Lefton/TRT Reporter— CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people has been a hot topic in the media recently after Indiana…
Breaking: Veterans for Peace Cancels Annual Saint Patrick’s Peace Parade
Judge’s initial ruling allows City to deny noon start time on March 15 – ACLU lawsuit on behalf of VFP will continue to challenge City’s…
NCLR & ACLU Publish New Legal Guide for Transgender Prisoners
Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have released “Know Your Rights: Laws, Court Decisions, and Advocacy…
Two Same Sword Edges: Becker Book Lessons, Part 2
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— May 14, 2009. Hollywood producer Rob Reiner and his wife Michele hosted a lunch to talk about a lawsuit they…
NC Gets a Unique Kind of Lawsuit Against Marriage Ban
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— In a first of its kind lawsuit, a group of ministers filed a complaint in federal court Monday against North…
Devastating Effects of Religious Liberty & Phelps
By: Nicole Lashomb*/TRT Editor-in-Chief— Freedom of Religion has recently been coined the new phrase to justify discrimination again LGBTQ people. Based on this premise, LGBT…
Federal Appeals Court Rules for GID
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service—A federal appeals court Friday affirmed a district judge’s order that a state prison violated the constitutional rights of a prisoner…
Three Marriage Equality Cases Move Forward
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— Federal judges in three states advanced marriage equality lawsuits Monday. One of two lawsuits challenging Virginia’s ban on recognizing the…
LGBT Groups Challenge Medicare’s Refusal to Provide Healthcare to Transgender Patients
Last week, several national LGBT groups and a cooperating attorney filed an administrative challenge to Medicare’s ban on medically necessary healthcare for transgender patients. Medicare,…
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Albany, NY NY to introduce transgender nondiscrimination measure A bill is making its way in NY state legislature that would…
Discrimination the “Very Purpose” of DOMA, Glad & Lambda Legal Argue in Brief
Washington, DC – Lambda Legal and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in U.S. v. Windsor urging the U.S. Supreme Court…
Terrence McNally: The interview
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– The celebrated playwright Terrence McNally, who is openly gay, has won four Tony Awards, including one in 1995 for his gay-themed Love!…
Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit: Seeks Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in Illinois
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…