LGBT New Yorkers held a 'Take Back the Night' rally in response to a string of anti-LGBT attacks that have occurred in the last two weeks. The rally, organized by Queer Rising, brought together a diverse range of LGBT and allied people to advocate for LGBT safety.
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11/12/08
Connecticut married its first same-sex couples today after a final ruling on the case of Kerrigan et al v.
11/12/08
Many prominent California politicians have taken to the media to express their disapproval of anti-gay initiative Pr
11/03/08
The NO on Prop 8 campaign released a new ad that features quotes and pictures of Sen. Barack Obama, Gov.
10/24/08
This weekend, folks in Nashville, Tennessee are in for a one-of-a-kind faith conference that helps LGBT participants
10/24/08
10/24/08
Business owners have received threatening letters, incl
10/24/08
Proponents of California’s Proposition 8 have been talking about everything but taking away the right of gay couples
10/23/08
The below post is by Sarah Kennedy, the Central Region’s Media Field Strategist here at GLAAD.
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11/29/12
After announcing her intentions of resigning Tuesday, State Rep.-elect Stacie Marie Laughton said Wednesday that she will continue fighting to keep her forthcoming seat.
11/29/12
The trial began Wednesday in Columbiana County Municipal Court for a Canfield man accused of domestic violence after he allegedly attacked his openly gay 15-year-old son in the parking lot of a Lisbon theater in 2011.
11/29/12
Delegates with the Eastern District Conference of the Mennonite Church decided to end the group's "liaison relationship" with the Germantown Mennonite Church (GMC). GMC Pastor Amy Yoder McGloughlin told NewsWorks on Monday that she suspected that GMC's acceptance of LGBT members played a role.
11/29/12
A meeting will be held at Virginia Commonwealth University on Thursday to discuss the termination of former women's volleyball head coach, James Finley. Finley says he lost his job, because he is gay.
11/28/12
Police in Virginia are searching for a transgender teen who has been missing for more than a week. Sage Smith, 19, was last seen Nov. 20, in the 500 block of West Main Street in Charlottesville.
11/28/12
A South Florida teen was brutally beaten by a man at a gas station, and she says it was because of her sexual orientation. Nineteen-year-old Nachrisha Cash has cuts, welts and bruises on her face after she said she was a victim of a vicious beating outside a gas station.
11/28/12
The Maine Ethics Commission fined the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage for the late filing of a campaign finance report that detailed $800,000 in contributions from the Washington, D.C.-based group to the lead campaign opposing Maine's ballot initiative on marriage equality.
11/28/12
The Washington state Health Department will be changing marriage and divorce certificates in response to the same-sex marriage law that takes effect Dec. 6.