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Erin Faith Page is an out lesbian who was selected by her classmates at New England College as the student commencement speaker this year. But NEC, a...
2013-05-17 17:24
Like a lot of Americans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a law banning workplace discrimination against LGBT people would impact his family...
2013-05-16 12:56

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Following criticism that they were hostile to a prospective transgender student, Massachusetts's Smith College will form a committee to change their policies on trans women.
2013-05-03 15:27
"The country is ready for a woman president," declares a new campaign from Emily's List called Madam President.
2013-05-02 16:09
Civil unions in Colorado took effect May 1, and the first couple to be licensed was a pair of lesbian moms, both dressed in white wedding gowns, with their son Jeremy, 5, at their side. 
2013-05-01 14:35
A 19-year-old lesbian from Brighton, Mich., was fired from her job at a Boy Scout Camp near Detroit because she is gay, according to a petition the teenager launched on Change.org. The woman says she...
2013-05-01 13:41
A group of students will deliver a petition with 4,000 signatures to all-women Smith College after refusing to consider the application of a transgender student. Calliope Wong will join Smith Q&A...
2013-04-30 18:56
Spain's only openly lesbian politician asked her fellow closeted officials to come out at Madrid's annual Day of Lesbian Visibility on April 26.  Ángeles Álvarez, a member of Spain's ruling...
2013-04-29 14:03
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." So begins the historic coming-out essay from NBA center Jason Collins, which appears in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated.
2013-04-29 13:04
Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a bill earlier this week that will change all the state's statutes, dating back to 1854, to gender-neutral descriptions. Terms like "Firemen" have also already...
2013-04-26 19:03
Natasha Frosh and Tony Friesen got married in Minnesota on Saturday, April 20. But when it came time for the traditional bouquet toss, the bride stepped up to the mic and took a moment to advocate...
2013-04-26 14:50
A pair of lesbian moms from Jonesboro, Ga., just wrapped up a whirlwind trip across the country, packing their seven (!) kids up in the family van and getting married nine times, in eight different...
2013-04-25 18:23