gay rights

Noir genre fiction from L.A.

May 5, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

Think "Stonewall," and you conjure up images of gay and trans bar patrons in Greenwich Village who finally had seen enough of police brutality and, and fought back in June 1969.

After Senate win, gay rights groups shift focus to Obama

November 8, 2013 By Julie Pace

WASHINGTON (AP) - Moments after the Senate passed a historic measure to outlaw workplace discrimination against gay and transgendered workers, activists turned their attention toward President Barack Obama and a long-sought executive order that would have...

Bar Association condemns “panic” defense in LGBTQ murders

August 21, 2013 By Lily Connor

It's a major step forward that the American Bar Association has now officially condemned "panic" defenses used to justify anti-gay hate crimes.

Today in labor history: Stonewall sparks gay rights movement

June 28, 2013 By John Wojcik

Forty four years ago today the Stonewall demonstrations broke out in New York City,

Union leaders hail court dumping of DOMA

June 28, 2013 By Press Associates

WASHINGTON (PAI) - Union leaders hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to throw out the Defense of Marriage Act, the anti-gay law a Republican-run Congress railroaded through, and which then-President Bill Clinton signed.