Support for LGBT community removed from White House website on Trump Day 1
Within hours of Trump's inauguration, the web page supporting the LGBT community disappeared from the White House website. Also removed: web pages supporting the national HIV/AIDS strategy, civil rights, climate change, and the White House...
Human Rights Campaign: Trump opposes marriage equality
No doubt today's presidential inauguration marks the beginning of a new chapter of challenges (to put it mildly) for the LGBT community (and, well, everyone). Just check out this report on the new president...
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s espionage sentence
It's not exactly Caitlyn Jenner this time. Transgender awareness has taken the spotlight on the national stage once again, not in a Jenner-style glossy fashion shoot for Vanity Fair but from federal prison and the...
AIDS survivor’s story: A black lesbian’s struggle for answers
In the early 1980s, Shirley Royster, an African American lesbian, knew something was wrong. She saw people in the black community dying at an alarming rate. For six years, Royster had been a drug...
Secretary of State Kerry apologizes for decades of State Dept. discrimination
“These actions were wrong then, just as they would be wrong today."
With this words, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry apologized to the LGBT community on behalf of the State Department for decades of...
Vermont Senator Leahy blasts AG nominee Sessions’ anti-civil rights record
"When I pushed in 2009 to advance the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act," says Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, "it was Sessions who sought to derail it."
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, writes Leahy in...
MassEquality greets 2017 with six-point LGBT-rights agenda
2017 is here, and the fight for LGBT civil rights — both in terms of progress and saving basic, hard-fought civil rights — is on.
For the Bay State, MassEquality has put forth its six-point agenda for the New...
Natick residents supporting lesbian neighbors named Bostonians of the Year
It's the kind of story that shows what the "A" in LGBTQA is all about — for the neighbors of Natick lesbian couple Cari and Lauri Ryding are true allies.
When the couple returned home from...
NH Democratic chair is a top contender to head DNC
Raymond Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is a top contender to become chairman of the national party organization.
Buckley is also the first out gay...
U-Maine Black Bears stand against North Carolina discrimination bill
The University of Maine Black Bears basketball team took a stand ahead of its December 2 game against Duke by protesting North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 bill. The team, playing in Durham, wore special warm-up...
