Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Clarence Thomas in Affirmative Action Dissent
Thomas accused the court's newest justice of casting all Black people as victims and wanting to "reallocate society’s riches by racial means."
June 29, 2023
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LISTEN: Biden Says Marriage Equality Case Could Be Next Brown v. Board of Education
Joe Biden is optimistic about the way the Supreme Court is going to rule on Obergefell v. Hodges.
May 4, 2015
Mexican Court Uses American Legal Precedent for Marriage Equality
Mexico's high court used landmark American cases -- Loving v. Virginia and Brown v. Board of Education -- to rule in favor of same-sex couples and their families.
February 19, 2013
The long road ahead
Fifty years after Brown v. the Board of Education, people forget that most victories in the fight for racial equality came after that court decision outlawing segregation. For gays and lesbians, it's time to steel ourselves for the decades of work we still have to do to achieve equality.
October 8, 2005
Op-ed: Celebration With Trepidation
As we've learned with the landmark cases of the civil rights movement, the Supreme Court's decree is often not enough.
June 28, 2013
WATCH: Judge Rules Marriage Ban Like 'Separate But Equal'
In a major decision, a Louisiana judge has compared marriage bans to the state's old unconstitutional 'separate but equal' laws.
September 29, 2014
Smiling and Crying Through the Stilted Progression of LGBTQ Equality
When you reside at the intersections of multiple identities, anniversaries of your civil rights struggles can be both bitter and sweet.Â
May 22, 2019
Anti-Trans School Restroom Policies Unconstitutional, Court Rules
In the case brought by Virginia student Gavin Grimm, the Fourth Circuit says such policies violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
August 26, 2020
Democrats Grill a Cautious Neil Gorsuch on Privacy Rights
The Supreme Court nominee avoids saying much about the concept on which many civil rights rulings rest.
March 22, 2017
Trump Is Horrible, But Mitch McConnell Is Really Destroying America
By abusing power, the Senate majority leader has held back progress on everything from LGBTQ rights to environmental protections. He must go.
May 27, 2019
Beyond marriage
Two vital lessons, 14 months after marriage equality came to Massachusetts: First, the courts are only one of many battlegrounds. Second, every other issue--job and HIV discrimination, for instance--still needs our attention
June 15, 2005
Obama: Constitution Guarantees Marriage Equality in 50 States
The former University of Chicago law professor told The New Yorker he believes the U.S. Constitution includes a right to same-sex marriage.
October 20, 2014
Larry Kramer's Loud, Proud Activism Remains Necessary
We need positive disruptors to remind us the status quo isn't working.
June 5, 2020
Obama To Alabama Judges: Federal Law Will Be Obeyed
'I think that the courts at the federal level will have something to say' to Alabama's antigay Chief Justice Roy Moore, says President Obama.
February 11, 2015
Judge Rules for Marriage Equality in Pennsylvania
If his ruling is not appealed, the Keystone State would be the 19th in the U.S. with marriage equality.
May 20, 2014
Donald Trump Hijacked My Holidays
A black gay man reflects on how racism and homophobia prevented him from going home to North Carolina for Christmas.
December 25, 2016
White House Withdraws Controversial Judicial Nominee Ryan Bounds
His writings on racial, gender, and LGBT issues were out of bounds even for some Republicans.
July 19, 2018