We here at Queerty are big fans of the United States, the nation that bore us, Celebrity Jeopardy, the hamburger and that whole representative democracy thing. It's a nation rich in natural resources, can-do attitude and homosexuals, and each week, we're visiting a new state to find out ju...

Marc Solomon, the Executive Director of MassEquality has accepted a position as Marriage Director at Equality California. Solomon headed the organization when it went from a small statewide organization with a budget of less than a half-million dollars to its current budget of over 3 million dollars...

Most women responding to a survey conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) clinics indicated they would be willing to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and to have their daughters and even sons vaccinated in order to prevent cancer in their children. The report in the Mar...

Below is a guest commentary I wrote and submitted to Bay Windows this week, regarding Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders’ (GLAD) challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act filed on Tuesday. I previously wrote on this subject at Q-Notes‘ blog, assembloge. Guest Opinion DOMA cha...

A number of same-sex spouses and widows who were legally married in Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that a 1996 federal law discriminates against married same-sex couples by limiting certain protections and benefits that are normally provided to married...

Unfortunately, legal gay marriage doesn't always come along with the same rights that straight marriage does. In Massachusetts, eight same-sex couples and three gay widowers are trying to change that by suing the federal government. According to advocates of gay marriage, even same-sex couples m...

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 ...

GLAD (the one with one 'a') will this morning hold a press conference wherein the LGBT legal eagles will lay out plans to challenge that dumb-a law known as DOMA. Here's more from the organization itself: Gill et al. v. Office of Personnel Management et al. targets the denial of certain federal righ...

In their search for revenue, states are looking at such ideas as legalizing marijuana and taxing pornography....

A proposal by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to levy a 5 percent surcharge tax on sugar-laden snacks and beverages, pitched by his office as “a critical first step in discouraging the consumption of these empty calories,” has raised again some basic questions about the wisdom and p...