Married same-sex couples in Florida can now receive birth certificates that list both parents. On Thursday, May 5th, the Department of Health instructed all hospitals…
As a result, in part, of a lawsuit filed by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Justice in Aging, and Foley Hoag LLP on behalf…
Today Pope Francis finalized a document that celebrated “family life,” just not family life for same-sex couples, couples who wed later in life and are…
NEW YORK—The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court today affirmed that it is illegal for businesses to discriminate based on sexual orientation. The…
By: Mike Givens*/TRT Assistant Editor— June 26, 2015 was a historic day for LGBTQ people. That warm Friday was one that I will never forget. I…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— Making sure that gays and lesbians were never afforded legally recognized marriages was the focus for the anti-gay right for…
By: Paul P. Jesep*/TRT Columnist— Justin Tanis (http://goo.gl/Jbkahs), Managing Director at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (http://goo.gl/IBWXqy), established at…
Ask to have Both Parents Listed on their Children’s Birth Certificates TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Yesterday, the married same-sex couples suing the State of Florida asked a federal…
Review Unprecedented Alabama Refusal to Recognize a Same-Sex Parent Adoption from Another State and Asks the Court to Stay Alabama Decision So She Can Have Visitation with…
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— Thousands of LGBTQ Mormons and Allies resigned from the Church of Latter-Day Saints on Saturday, November 14 due to a new…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— Dear LGBT Community, This is a cease and desist letter regarding the accusation that Ben Carson is a homophobe. Stop…
Ask to have Both Parents Listed on their Children’s Birth Certificates TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Yesterday, the married same-sex couples suing the State of Florida asked a federal…
By: Nicole Lashomb/Editor-in-Chief— BOSTON, Mass.—Alarming figures indicate that up to 75 percent of LGBTQ individuals have experienced Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), as found in a…
Florida officials responded to Equality Florida’s birth certificate lawsuit late Thursday by asking a federal judge to clarify the law. Equality Florida responded Friday by…
By: Keegan O’Brien*— While millions celebrated the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on June 26 making gay marriage the law of the land in all fifty…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— Now that the rainbow dust is starting to settle after all the big gay parades celebrating the Supreme Court decision,…
By: Paul P. Jesep/ TRT Columnist— The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on marriage equality. Absent the introduction of a constitutional amendment in…
By: Nicole Lashomb, Editor-in-Chief— Since the SCOTUS decision leading to the legalization of same-sex marriage across the nation, I have found myself breathing a bit…
By: Keegan O’Brien*/Special to TRT— I still vividly remember how it felt to be spat on and called a “fag&ot” at fourteen, when I went…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and John Roberts We were gathered to celebrate something that many of us didn’t…
MOBILE, Ala—U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade today issued an order confirming that her injunction directing all Alabama probate judges to issue marriage licenses to…
“The proof that one truly believes is in action.” ― Bayard Rustin BOSTON, Mass.—The Hispanic Black Gay Coalition and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice dream of a…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— June 26 has been solidified as the historic date for LGBT history in the United States. It is the day in 2003…