The U.S. House of Representatives sole lesbian member will introduce a bill targeted at providing gay federal employees many of the same rights as their straight co-workers in a domestic partnership bill timed to join up with a matching Senate version of the bill sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman ...

Some time this month, openly lesbian Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) plans to introduce legislation to grant benefits to the domestic partners of federal employees. The bill would grant the partners of gay federal employees the same benefits that are available to the spouses of straight employees. Version...

Via- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel : Democrat Tammy Baldwin joined the only other openly gay member of Congress, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), on Wednesday to unveil a new House caucus focusing on gay rights. The group, called the LGBT Equality Caucus, has received the support of 50 other members of the...

Lesbian politico Tammy Baldwin and others are sick and tired of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s “unsatisfactory response” to the unequal treatment of gays in the State Department. “They said they are looking to Secretary Rice for her ‘personal leadership on this i...

Lesbian politico Tammy Baldwin schooled her Congressional colleagues on Day of Silence this morning. Speaking on the House floor, Baldwin chatted about how 500,000 students are shutting their mouths to break the silence on anti-gay bullying. She then reminded them of Lawrence King and implored our n...

An update on yesterday's post. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reversed decision and allowed Tammy Baldwin's partner Lauren Azar to travel on congressional trip after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intervened. Soul departed: "Life Before Death" photographic portrait project shows in London. Like Ryan Sea...

The United States government’s queer discrimination runs deeper than we thought. Politico reports this morning that the Pentagon attempted to block Tammy Baldwin from traveling with her long time lover, Lauren Azar, with whom she exchanged domestic partner vows in 1998. While Defense Secretary...

After the Super Tuesday primaries two weeks ago, Sen. Barack Obama faced continuing questions about the support he could draw from lower-income white voters and those with less education, who had to that point proved to be the bedrock of support for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton....

Here comes another cut and paste job. (Hey, I am on vacation) This article penned by some members of the Judiciary Committee is serious, and it should not be ignored. Did I mention that I agree with it 100%? "The allegations that he abused power are credible. [U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (D., Fla.), Lu...

Jared Polis, a web entrepreneur who launched his bid for a Colorado U.S. House seat last May and has received the endorsements of openly gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin as well as the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, was bypassed by top gay fundraisers and activists in his home state in favor of Joan Fitz-Gerald,...