Tag: LGBT Issues

The move comes after Democrats last month added a pro-LGBT amendment to the fiscal 2017 bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP moves to keep Dem ‘poison pills’ out of spending debate

Susan Ferrechio · June 8, 2016 7:41 pm

Mabus acknowledged that the Pentagon's new policy on transgender troops is not yet complete. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

National Security

Navy secretary calls on discharged gays to get their records corrected

Jamie McIntyre · June 8, 2016 4:58 pm

The Human Rights Campaign announced that it hopes to "Make American Gay Again," and launched a gay rights awareness campaign that riffs off Donald Trump's campaign slogan. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

‘Make America Gay Again’ campaign announced

Mariana Barillas · June 7, 2016 1:21 am

The ACLU is arguing the insurance program —œdiscriminates on the basis of sex, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act.—£ (AP Photo)

ACLU sues to force insurance to cover transition treatment

Mariana Barillas · June 6, 2016 9:06 pm

The move reflects a nationwide movement in favor of transgender rights. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

VA proposes rule allowing gender reassignment surgery

Sarah Bedford · June 3, 2016 2:19 pm

This image released by Electronic Arts shows the new diverse characters that will be available on "The Sims 4" the latest edition of "The Sims" video game. (Electronic Arts via AP)

‘The Sims’ introduces gender-bending options

Joshua Axelrod · June 2, 2016 9:33 pm

"I didn't make it an issue," President Obama responded to a questioner. "There are a lot of things that are more pressing; you're absolutely right." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Transgender bathroom issue chose me

Nicole Duran · June 2, 2016 2:32 am

Old issues have been replaced by a different kind of barking or braying: angry rhetoric, nostalgia for imagined pasts and litanies of laughably unrealistic policies. (AP Photo)

The dogs that didn’t bark in 2016

Michael Barone · June 1, 2016 9:24 pm

President Obama is holding listening sessions with the LGBT community as he considers designating the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and an adjoining park as the first LGBT rights monument. (AP Photo)

White House mum on possibility of first LGBT monument

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 9:32 pm

The Transgender Locker Room

Steven Rhoads · May 27, 2016 5:50 am

The group said it stuck more than 3,500 Post-It notes to the windows of their Washington headquarters. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Activists spell out ‘Love Trumps Hate’ on office windows

Mariana Barillas · May 26, 2016 8:45 pm

Watch: Dem scolds witness at transgender hearing: ‘You are an ignorant bigot’

Watch: Dem scolds witness at transgender hearing: ‘You are an ignorant bigot’

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2016 4:12 pm