History in the High Court Part: Standing in the Way
How procedural questions in the two big marriage cases this month could preclude major rulings – and what that would mean … To prepare readers for…
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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…
Obama & DOJ Enter Brief in Prop 8 Case
By Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– The Obama administration continues to back up its words of support for marriage equality with action, this week taking the…
LGBT Military Equality Takes Center Stage at Tonight’s State of the Union
Same-sex wife of BG Tammy Smith to be seated with First Lady WASHINGTON, DC — The fight for LGBT military equality will be on display tonight…
Mary L. Bonauto receives American Bar Association’s First Stonewall Award
BOSTON, Mass. — The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity recognized Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defender’s Civil Rights Project Director…
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA AIDS Action Committee disapproves funding cuts The AIDS Action Committee has released a statement voicing concern of Gov….
MassEquality Statement on John Kerry’s Confirmation as Sec. of State
Yesterday, Sen. John Kerry was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as US Secretary of State. MassEquality Executive Director Kara Suffredini offered the…
Gayborhood News: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Grant received to educate gay men about domestic violence The Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project has received a…
Justice Scalia: A Reduction to Stone Throwing
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– The depth of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s discomfort for things gay became apparent in 1996, ten years after…
Creep of the Week: Justice Antonin Scalia’s Homosexual Stance
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– A famous Italian Catholic has had a big change of heart regarding marriage equality after publicly saying some pretty nasty…
The Religious Freedom Red Herring & DOMA
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT– By the time you read this, you’ll probably know if the Supreme Court has decided to hear one of the…
MassEquality, Others React to U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on Prop. 8 & DOMA
BOSTON, Massachusetts — On December 7th, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments in Windsor v. United States, which challenges Section 3 of the…
Historic: The U.S. Supreme Court Takes Prop. 8 and Windsor
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– In a surprise development, the U.S. Supreme Court announced on December 7 that it will review both the Proposition 8…
Historic: First Trans Woman to Head OutServe-SLDN
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– She’s the right person in the right place at the right time. That’s the consensus viewpoint about West Point graduate Allyson…
Equality Needs a Champion Like Elizabeth Warren
By: Kara Suffredini, Esq.*/Special to TRT– Eight years ago, we knew that if we won the right to marry in Massachusetts the rest of the…
Historic Supreme Court Session Opens Monday
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Perhaps the most historic U.S. Supreme Court session ever for the LGBT community gets underway officially October 1, with a…
GLAD Asks High Court to Hear Pedersen DOMA Challenge
BOSTON, Mass. — Today, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) asked the Supreme Court to review Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management, a lawsuit challenging…
“Stories From Home: Letters From Military Families to Congress”
Washington, DC – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT service members, launched a new online campaign today spotlighting the…
Prop 8 Could Head to The U.S. Supreme Court
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…
City Hall Rainbow Flag Raising Initiates Boston Pride 2012
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– BOSTON — June is busting out all over with LGBT Pride. This year, there’s plenty of pride and joy to go…
DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Appeals Court in Boston
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…
First Argument Against DOMA at U.S. Court of Appeals First Circuit
By: Lisa Keen & Chuck Colbert/Keen News Service– The seventh-floor courtroom of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston was…
In Historic First, Appellate Court Will Decide Constitutionality of DOMA
Boston, MA — On Wednesday, April 4, seven married same-sex couples and three widowers will go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First…