Posts Tagged ‘LGBT Rights’

So, you’ve done it all right. You’ve meticulously chosen your Facebook privacy settings so that only your closest friends can see the most personal information about you. No one else has access. Or so you think. Turns out, it’... Full story

Last Friday, a federal court of appeals issued an important decision, setting limits on the right to use religion to discriminate. The case concerned Jennifer Keeton, a student enrolled in a graduate school counseling program who told her faculty ... Full story

When graduating senior Ceara Sturgis chose to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook photo, rather than the drape typically reserved for girls, her school responded by excluding her entirely from the senior portrait section of the yearbook. The ACLU... Full story

On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines (10-8) in support of the Respect for Marriage Act (S. 598), legislation that would fully repeal the discriminatory and unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Unsu... Full story

Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Respect for Marriage Act by a vote of 10-8! We'll have more soon. Read our release: "Senate Committee Passes Repeal to Discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act" >> Full story

The Department of Homeland Security assumes that mass detention is the key to immigration enforcement. But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of... Full story

And here football fans thought, at least from our perspective, that one of the most important things the new NFL collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between team owners and players did was end the lockout and remove the ominous cloud of a possible... Full story

Today marks the official end of the discriminatory policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." For nearly 18 years, DADT forced lesbian, gay and bisexual service members to painstakingly hide their true selves, as well as their partners and... Full story

That’s basically what a high school principal told Ceara Sturgis at the start of her senior year — you’ve got to wear a “drape,” or scoop-necked covering that looks like the top of a dress, in the yearbook photo. Cear... Full story

Over the past several months, there has been a steady drum beat of devastating news stories involving same-sex, binational couples facing the threat of deportation, including the recent example of a gay California couple in which one partner, the pr... Full story