Tag: LGBT Issues

In this Dec. 6, 2018, file photo, Karen Pence smiles as she gives a tour of the holiday decorations at the Vice President's residence in Washington.

Washington Secrets

Bunny battle erupts over Karen Pence’s return to teaching at Christian school

Paul Bedard · January 25, 2019 2:28 pm

Beltway Confidential

NBC News takes first place in media’s race to destroy Covington Catholic

Becket Adams · January 23, 2019 11:51 pm

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president.

National Security

Justice Department seeks to clear last hurdle to imposing Trump’s military transgender ban

Jamie McIntyre · January 23, 2019 2:52 pm

Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. Demonstrators flocked to a plaza named for San Francisco gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to protest President Donald Trumpâs abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s military transgender ban is more reasonable than you think

Nicole Russell · January 22, 2019 8:58 pm

FILE - In this March 27, 2018 file photo, plaintiffs Cathrine Schmid, second left, and Conner Callahan, second right, listen with supporters during a news conference in front of a federal courthouse following a hearing in Seattle. Transgender-rights activists are angered at moves by President Donald Trump and his administration to undermine gains achieved before his election. Trump is seeking to ban transgender people from military service, although that effort has stalled in court.

National Security

As rights groups decry Supreme Court decision, Pentagon says not all trans troops are banned

Jamie McIntyre · January 22, 2019 4:47 pm

The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce military’s transgender ban

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 2:52 pm

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said her constituents "live with the reality of this message popping up on their phones" at any moment because of the rising conflict between the U.S. and Pyongyang. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Cut Tulsi Gabbard some slack for her unsavory past on LGBT issues

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 22, 2019 3:34 am

Egypt TV host sentenced to year of hard labor for interviewing a gay man

Claude Thompson · January 22, 2019 2:29 am

Lady Gaga arrives at the 24th annual Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.

Lady Gaga slams Mike Pence’s Christian values for tolerating wife’s work at Christian school

Caitlin Yilek · January 21, 2019 3:49 pm

Tulsi Gabbard’s father: ‘I never realized how much trauma I put her through’

Caitlin Yilek · January 20, 2019 6:43 pm

Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan makes his acceptance speech after winning.

House Democratic bill clarifies that ‘Presidents do not have to be men’

Pete Kasperowicz · January 18, 2019 8:42 pm

Lesbian couple with rainbow flag.

Beltway Confidential

A 21st-century agenda for the LGBT Right

Casey Given · January 17, 2019 10:21 pm