…here are a few reminders of how horrific life can be when you and your spouse are considered legal strangers.  Both stories happen to be from Texas, but they could just as easily be from Michigan, Montana, Florida or any of the 30 states with no relationship recognition laws for same-sex couples. From McKinney, Texas, [...]

The Senate of Puerto Rico passed an LGBT anti-discrimination bill on Thursday on a vote of 15-11. The bill (PS-238) would amend Puerto Rico’s existing anti-discrimination laws, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the classes already protected against discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and government services. “The bill’s passage comes three days after [...]

Comments left of Sen. Harry Reid’s Facebook page illustrate why we need ENDA. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) reiterated his longstanding support for passage of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) on Wednesday with a personal note. “My niece is a lesbian,” Reid told reporters. “She’s a school teacher. Her employment shouldn’t be affected with that. [...]

“There goes the neighborhood” is a phrase I grew up hearing from racist neighbors in the white, middle-class suburbia of my 1960s and 1970s childhood. The phrase — or better said, epithet — packed a lot of meaning. It expressed the opinion that when a black family moved into an all-white neighborhood, expectations were that [...]

Assisted by five young lady-staffers, Eugene Delgaudio claimed on Monday to be delivering 1,000,000 petitions to Congress. Mr. Delgaudio is president of Public Advocate of the United States, an anti-LGBT organization with a million-dollar annual budget.  Public Advocate of the United States has paid Mr. Delgaudio a total of at least $720,000 in “management” fees for [...]

The passage of a marriage equality law in Delaware last week leaves New Jersey the only Atlantic coast state north of Virginia to retain a discriminatory marriage law. “[V]acationers this summer can travel anywhere from Portland, Maine, to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and all the way to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy the Atlantic coastline in [...]

The British House of Commons is scheduled to give the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill its third reading on May 20 and 21. The bill, which would legalize marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales, was overwhelmingly approved by the House of Commons in February on a Second Reading vote of 400 to 175.  The [...]

In a glass houses moment, National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown chucked stones at the gays last week after the Minnesota House passed the bipartisan marriage equality bill.  Mr. Brown wrote: The recent actions in Minnesota should serve as a wakeup call to other states that have not yet passed Marriage Protection Amendments: if you [...]

With the list of marriage equality states doubling in the last six months and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s introduction this week of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act which would remove barriers to same-sex couples who wish to foster or adopt children, it is fitting that The New Yorker honors mothers this year [...]

Today the Minnesota state House passed the marriage equality bill (HF 1054) with a bipartisan 75 to 59 vote.  The bill now moves to the Senate, where a vote is expected on Monday, May 13. “In Minnesota, we don’t turn our backs on our families,” Representative Karen Clark (DFL-Minneapolis) said in her introductory remarks on [...]