The Human Rights Campaign has launched End The Lies , a new interactive site that calls out the lies used by the right wing to thwart LGBT equality. "Again and again, opponents of equality have claimed one shallow victory after another by telling lies about who we are as individuals, as loving coupl...

The Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) have filed a federal challenge to Section 3 of the Defense Of Marriage Act in a Boston court. GLAD filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Boston on behalf of eight married couples and three surviving spouses from Massachusetts who have been ...

Gainesville, the bustling Central Florida town that is home to the massive University Of Florida campus, will next month vote on a repeal of that city's LGBT rights ordinances. Christianist activists there have placed an amendment on the ballot that will make it legal to fire, not hire, and deny hou...

A committee of the Idaho state senate refused to consider a bill that would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. About 50 supporters of the proposed change to the Idaho Human Rights Act filed quietly out of the room, some in tears, after the Senate State Affairs...

Yesterday the North Dakota senate voted to add sexual orientation to its list of groups protected from discrimination. "If someone is not doing their job, or habitually tardy, or doesn't get along with people, they can still be fired, whether gay, lesbian or straight," said Sen. Tom Fiebiger, D-Farg...

In Georgia, sometimes you can keep your kids if you come out after a heterosexual marriage. You just can't let your dirty homo friends anywhere near them. A gay man in the US state of Georgia is disputing a child custody agreement restriction which prohibits him from "exposing his children to his ho...

Over at Daily Kos, a straight woman is flabbergasted by the adoption form sent to her by the state of Florida. As I am a straight, married woman, and my husband is a straight, married man, it never occurred to either of us that--after the volumes of paperwork we had to complete as a couple, the copi...

Two more LGBT rights bills failed to get out of committee in the Utah legislature yesterday. Dead are the bills to allow gay and unmarried couples to adopt and the bill that would have protected LGBT folks from housing and employment discrimination. The haters framed their arguments against the bill...

Kentucky state Sen. Gary Tapp (R) wants to make double-extra sure that no dirty homos are allowed to adopt children and yesterday introduced a bill that will ban all unmarried couples from adopting. Human rights group The Fairness Campaign called Senator Gary Tapp’s bill "deceptively-worded." "It ...

Colorado makes a slight move towards LGBT rights. A bill making it easier for gays and lesbians to leave property to their partners and visit each other in the hospital is closer to approval in the Colorado Legislature. The measure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Monday and sent to the...