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: Lauren Walleser/ TRT Assistant Editor— BOSTON, Mass.—After a roundtable discussion with key members of the Massachusetts LGBTQ community last month at Fenway Health, United…
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Boise attorneys Deborah A. Ferguson and Craig Durham filed a lawsuit yesterday on behalf of Madelynn Lee…
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,…
By: Robert Trestan, Anti-Defamation League New England Regional Director and Melissa Garlick, Anti-Defamation League Eastern States Civil Rights Counsel Pride month in Israel was welcomed with…
In a sudden but not necessarily unexpected gesture, the White House indicated today that President Obama has “directed his staff” to prepare an executive order to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
By: Keegan O’Brien/Special to TRT— Every year in June, the LGBTQ community comes together to celebrate Pride month; and every year you’re guaranteed to see…
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— A federal district court judge on June 3 dismissed most of a lawsuit by the National Organization for Marriage that…
BOISE, Idaho—Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit temporarily put on hold a federal district court’s decision that overturned Idaho’s ban…
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…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) announced the launch of the Rural Pride campaign to…
Iggy Azalea on ‘lame fake lesbians,’ hip-hop homophobia and safeguarding her gays By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to TRT— Let’s get something straight: Iggy Azalea is not…
By: Nicole Lashomb/Editor-in-Chief— Pride season is not only a time of year where we come together as one community, celebrating, advocating, and affirmatively being who…
By: Corey Yarbrough* Five years ago, I was one of many Black gay men in Boston searching for community. Attending local lesbian, bisexual, gay, and…
By: Dan Woog*/Special to TRT— As a young referee, Ryan Powell heard a coach yell at a youth soccer player: “Stop being a fairy! And…
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…
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…
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist— In the quest for trans rights, one of the alleged issues is the bathroom. Opponents claim that they don’t want…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, is calling on the Boy Scouts of…
WSSU slow to act as student is target of aggressive anti-gay cyber bullying WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
There are a lot of things about the right-wing universe that don’t make a lot of sense to me. The fanatical obsession with the unborn paired with the callous disregard of poor children and their families, for example. The insistence that the Bible is literal and must be adhered to, and yet the careful cherry picking of what passages they actually want to follow.
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.