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02/12/13
A group of LGBT labor activists is launching a nationwide campaign to push unions to bargain for transgender health benefits for their members.
02/12/13
Same sex couples would have access to many of the benefits and legal protections afforded to heterosexual married couples if a bill and several resolutions filed in the Texas Legislature gain approval.
02/12/13
The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity today recognized three lawyers with the inaugural Stonewall Award during a ceremony at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Dallas.
02/12/13
Nick McDaniel lives within a couple of miles of the sites of some of his worst memories. Growing up in the farming community of Salinas, McDaniel, a transgender man, survived sexual assault and years of severe depression, multiple attempts at suicide, and many months spent in county psychiatric wards.
02/12/13
The clerk was nervous as he filled out the first same-sex marriage license ever issued in New Mexico. “He knew it was going to be controversial,” recalls Mary Houdek, one-half of the couple being issued a license. “That gentleman was shaking.”
02/12/13
According to a new report in the Washington Post, the Obama administration is currently considering a reversal on signing an sign executive order that would protect gay federal contractors from workplace discrimination.
02/12/13
Educators, service-club leaders and a local pastor were adamant before the Lake County SchoolBoard Monday that members not move forward with rules that would keep a 'gay-straight' student club from forming.
02/12/13
The state House Judiciary Committee has decided not to schedule a hearing for a bill that would legalize gay marriage, which means the issue is likely tabled for this legislative session.