NEW YORK, NY– GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) today called on iHeartMedia CEO Robert Pittman to speak out against comments made earlier this week…
All summer long, in an appalling display of election year cowardice, Governor Rick Scott has been in a crouch position, attempting to hide behind Attorney…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— Dear Religious Freedom: Fu@k off. Actually, that should say “so-called religious freedom” (or “so-called religious liberty”) since I happen to…
By: Lauren Walleser/ TRT Assistant Editor— BOSTON, Mass.—Equaldex—a collaborative website that serves as a database for LGBT rights—uses crowdsourcing to create a visual database and…
By: Eric Brus*— High levels of hate violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities continued last year, according to the new report, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,…
In New Documentary, Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda By: Mike Bahr*/Special to TRT— As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality,…
New Federal Report Shows Gay Government Employees Inconsistently Protected from Discrimination; Patchwork of policies, laws and shifting culture still leaves 53 percent of LGBT workers…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week will become the second federal appeals court to tackle the question…
Nobody spoke about recent efforts to circumvent laws protecting LGBT from discrimination by claiming religious motivations; nobody pointed out that people with religious objections to contraception often have religious objections to alternative insemination for lesbians and condom distribution for safe sex education.
The following statement can be attributed to Kara Coredini, Executive Director of MassEquality: We are extremely disappointed with the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council’s…
President Yoweri Museveni’s reversal comes after a review of junk science from so-called “medical experts” WASHINGTON – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is planning to sign an…
By: Chuck Colbert*/ TRT Reporter— BOSTON, Mass.—When Irish eyes are smiling, the world is bright and gay, or so go lyrics of the popular song….
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— The Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying that he was “unable to reach a legal…
Brattleboro, VT — Self Care for the Whole Person – a full day of wellness workshops – will take place on Saturday, November 9, from 9 a.m….
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— A chairman for Barilla, the world’s largest pasta producer, has created a chain reaction and a major boycott from the LGBT…
By: Lorelei Erisis*/TRT Columnist— To some extent it’s always been the aim of my writing, as well as my activism, to personalize transgender people, to…
By: Jason Lydon*/TRT Columnist— Five hundred and four days passed between the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ‘not guilty’ verdict of George…
By: Nicole Lashomb/TRT Editor-in-Chief— Pride. Is it really still necessary? This type of question has often surfaced during discussions around my dining room table. In…
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist— The Boston Pride theme for 2013 is “Moving forward … Proud, Strong, United!” This signifies the struggle that LGBT people…
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT— The Christian-dominated religious right in America is not exactly known for being BFFs with Jews. I mean, there’s that whole…
By: Nicole Lashomb*/Editor-in-Chief– Today, I had the privilege of lining up in my first St. Patrick’s Peace Parade, which started one mile behind the traditional…
More than 20K asking school officials to let 6-year-old transgender girl Coy Mathis use the correct bathroom; School is refusing mediation in civil rights case…
Washington — Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin released the following statement regarding the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut: “The entire HRC family…