BTL Staff VIRGINIA - The United States Supreme Court agreed to stay the decision made by a federal appeals court in Virginia last month, blocking same-sex marriages from taking place this week. The court issued [...]

AJ Trager Detroit Ferguson Rally on Aug. 14 Transgenderlawcenter.org along with many different LGBT organizations including the ACLU, Advocates for Youth, Equality Michigan, BiNet USA and AIDS United have come together to release an [...]

BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - Lambda Legal and Morrison Foerster LLP have filed suit against the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on behalf of the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) arguing that the denial of benefits [...]

AP PORTLAND - Oregon's Medicaid program will soon pay for gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and other treatments for transgender patients, becoming on Aug. 14 the third state joining the District of Columbia, California and [...]

BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - The creators of Will & Grace, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, traveled to Washington D.C. today [Aug. 19] to donate items from the hit show to be added into the [...]

BTL Staff NEW JERSEY - The school that previously stated that Rachel Pepe could not attend unless she presented as a boy, has retracted their statement and changed their position. On the evening of Aug. [...]

BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - The creators of Will & Grace, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, traveled to Washington D.C. today [Aug. 19] to donate items from the hit show to be added into the [...]

BTL Staff WASHINGTON D.C. - The creators of Will & Grace, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, traveled to Washington D.C. today [Aug. 19] to donate items from the hit show to be added into the [...]

BTL Staff TEXAS - Anti-gay activist and radio host Bryan Fisher has claimed that District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg is responsible for Gov. Rick Perry's grand jury indictment. Fisher tweeted incorrectly that Lehmberg indicted Perry, suggesting [...]

BTL Staff BALITMORE - Mia Henderson's life was taken on July 16th. She was found dead in a Baltimore alley. Henderson is the second transgender woman killed in Baltimore this summer. During the month previous, [...]

BTL Staff LOS ANGELES - Orange is the New Black star Uzo Aduba won an Emmy for her portrayal of Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren. She beat out five other women including co-stars Laverne Cox and [...]

By BTL Staff LonestarQ reports that sixty-three Texas legislators signed a court brief last week to uphold the state's ban on same-sex marriage. The ban was struck down in February. The brief, which calls on [...]

BTL Staff Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is fighting a court ruling that would allow for marriage equality in Utah. QSaltLake reported on Aug. 13 that Facebook made a $10,000 donation to Utah Attorney [...]

By BTL Staff Advocate.com reports that a new Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network study found that LGBT youth faced three times as much cyber bullying than their non-LGBT peers. The findings, which note that [...]

BTL Staff CHICAGO - With nearly 410,000 members the American Bar Association (ABA) is one of the largest voluntary professional membership organizations around the world. Earlier this week the ABA adopted Resolution 114B stating that [...]

BTL Staff CALIFORNIA - The California Senate is considering a bill this week that would make birth certificates more LGBT parent friendly, the East Bay Express reports. AB 1951, would require the Cali. Department of [...]

BTL Staff FLORIDA - Aug. 11th Douglas MacKinnon, former aide to President Reagan, filed an article with The Tampa Tribune, saying that Disney is indoctrinating children with its "pro-gay" agenda. MacKinnon contended the company is [...]

BTL Staff TEXAS - President of Texas Values, a large anti-gay group in Texas, Jonathan Saenz is known for his opposition of gay rights, his anti-abortion stance and his defense for conservatives to have the [...]

AJ Trager WASHINGTON D.C. - The Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute announced on Aug. 14th the appointment of Ben Panico as a Victory Congressional Fellow for the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. This appointment makes Panico [...]

By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seemed to signal pretty clearly where they're headed on the six marriage equality lawsuits they heard arguments in [...]

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AJ Trager CINCINNATI - Hours before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals was to hear testimony from Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee hundreds gathered outside the Potter Stewart Federal Courthouse in the heart of downtown. [...]

By AJ Trager NATIONAL - The same week the 6th Circuit Court heard testimony for marriage equality, three different states requested that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) review federal court appeals, to [...]

By BTL Staff NEW YORK - The Tyler Clementi Foundation, based in New York City, has named Sean Kosofsky as its first full-time executive director. TCF was formed in 2012 to honor the memory of [...]

BTL STAFF A new documentary from OHO Media titled "Transmormon" highlights a young trans woman's self-realization while intimately introducing viewers to her family, her faith and her journey. The film follows 25-year-old Eri Hayward through [...]