SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Late Tuesday, attorneys for three couples challenging Utah’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples filed a brief in the United States Court…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— A federal judge in San Antonio, Texas, ruled Wednesday that Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution and…
Amid a landscape of victories across the country, Kentucky ruling is a major step towards full marriage equality in the Bluegrass State WASHINGTON – Yesterday,…
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…
By: Paul P. Jesep*/ TRT Columnist— The Talmud, a sacred Jewish book distinct from the Torah (Hebrew Scriptures, improperly referred to as the Old Testament)…
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…
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…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The attorney general of Virginia announced this morning that his office will no longer defend the constitutionality of the state’s…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is pondering whether to grant a stay of a federal district court’s order that…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— In an extraordinary interview, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist apologized last month for having supported efforts to ban on…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— One of the anti-gay right’s favorite arguments is that the gays are actually the intolerant ones. It’s a pretty laughable…
By: Chuck Colbert /TRT Reporter— BOSTON, Mass.—On the same day the governor signed legislation making same-sex marriages legal in Illinois and the Catholic bishop of…
By: Chuck Colbert /TRT Reporter— November marks the tenth anniversary of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling that made the state the first in…
By: Abby Dees*/Special to TRT— When the deadline for this column loomed, I panicked. I have absolutely no clear opinions about anything this week, aside…
Judge’s order is first to legally recognize marriage equality in New Mexico SANTA FE, New Mexico – Marriage equality may have finally come to New…
Scary straights, Kurt Cobain’s lesbian relative and being ‘normal in some ways’ By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to TRT— Just give Courtney Love 10 minutes – the…
But if you want to know how we’ll get full marriage equality anyway, just ask conservative Justice Scalia By: Abby Dees*/Special to TRT— The Supreme…
By: Clara Lefton/TRT Reporter— During the first week of May, Rhode Island governor Lincoln D. Chafee signed a Marriage Equality Act that will allow same-sex…
Ocean State poised to become 10th marriage equality state, final New England state BOSTON, Mass. — Today, in a bipartisan vote of 7 to 4, Rhode Island’s…
By: Abby Dees*/Special to TRT– This week, as the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of Prop 8 and DOMA, I’ve heard the following question a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two democratic U.S. Senators announced their support for marriage equality today, according to reports from the Human Rights Campaign, HRC. U.S. Sen….
By: Emily Scagel/TRT Assistant Editor– Boston, MA Report outlines how religious arguments undermine women and LGBTs A report entitled Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign…
WASHINGTON, DC – MoveOn.org members from Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana and Delaware are leading campaigns to urge their senators…