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This week featured a major event in the Republican Party’s still-ongoing evolution on gay marriage, with Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) becoming the latest of a handful of congressional Republicans to say he supports it. But while Democrats have come out en masse for gay marriage in the last couple of years, don’t expect a similar […]

A couple interesting new studies out this week on how straight people view gays. First off, a new Gallup poll shows that 37% still believe being gay is a choice. Queerty reports: According to Gallup’s latest results, posted on Wednesday, 37 percent of Americans “believe people become gay as a result of factors such as

A figurative and literal step forward as transgender actress Laverne Cox is featured this week on the cover of Time Magazine. Think Progress reports: Time Magazine has declared that society has reached a “transgender tipping point,” offering up a new feature that includes an extensive “Transgender 101″ article covering the gamut of issues affecting the

The White House on Friday released a proclamation by the President making June LGBT Pride Month. President Obama has proclaimed June as LGBT Pride month since he took office in 2009. Here is the proclamation: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION As progress spreads from State to State, as justice is

Anthony Villarreal rose from the Sanger High track and field program to become the top distance runner for William Jessup University, only to be kicked out, he says, because he is gay. But the private Christian college east of Sacramento disputed that Friday and stated it has a nondiscrimination policy, even when it comes to

There’s a fair chance that US marriage equality is just around the corner. Vox reports: At this point, it’s looking more and more likely that the battle for marriage equality will once again reach the Supreme Court. By Paul Smith’s estimate, it’s going to take at most two years for the nation’s top court to

With thanks, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the introduction of Bella Abzug’s extraordinary comprehensive gay civil rights bill to Congress, known as the Equality Act of 1974, and we call all who are silent, to speak out for the demise of its flawed inadequate substitute, The Employment Non Discrimination Act. ” 1974 – On

(OK, so we’re a little late with the story/video, but in our defense, the only time ESPN is on is for the food eating competitions)Video here This is nothing short of amazing – Sam gets picked in the draft, and then the whole world sees an NFL player kiss his boyfriend on TV Queerty reports:

As recently as 2011, I was still in the habit of telling people that I was against gay marriage. In my mega-liberal home state of Massachusetts, it felt like a lark to be the lesbian in favor of civil unions. “It’s not that I think we should give marriage back, now that we have it