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The number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills being signed into law has shifted in the last year, leaving advocates feeling “cautiously optimistic” over a turning of the legislative tide.
The self-proclaimed 'Pro-Family Rally' featured speeches from Texas-based Presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Rick Perry.
Queer statehouse candidates in Louisiana say running for office was 'traumatic.'
Most of the extreme bills have failed to pass, but trans adults are watching statehouses with heightened anxiety.
The Indiana legislature is meeting for Organization Day with supporters and opponents of LGBT rights holding dueling rallies at the Statehouse.
After overseeing an impressive city makeover, Providence mayor David Cicilline has his sights set on the statehouse.
Jim McGreeveey, the gay former governor of New Jersey, will have his official portrait hung at the statehouse in a private ceremony this summer.
Patricia Todd won the Democratic primary for a seat in Alabama's statehouse on Tuesday and, with no Republican opponent in November, becomes the state's first openly gay representative.
Florida’s bill seems to have inspired a flurry of similar anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in statehouses around the country.
Gay rights supporters cheered loudly from the California statehouse gallery as lawmakers became the first in the country to approve a same-sex marriage bill, sponsored in the state assembly by San Francisco Democrat Mark Leno (pictured). But their celebration may be short-lived if California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the measure.
With no foreign policy credentials, next to no national profile, and having served in the statehouse for less than two years, Palin has such a thin record -- both legislatively and in terms of public statements -- that it's difficult to predict just what sort of vice president she might soon become. As for issues affecting gay Americans, there's only a handful of legal decisions -- made early in her tenure as governor -- that can help us divine where she stands.
Same-sex couples plan to celebrate New Hampshire's new civil unions law by holding a group ceremony the minute the law takes effect January 1, organizers said Wednesday. Democratic state representative Gail Morrison and Jen Major said the event is to take place just after midnight on the statehouse steps. Both are former board members of the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition and said they plan to get civil unions with their own partners that night.
New Hampshire is becoming the fourth state to legalize civil unions, and about 20 couples have decided to be the first to take advantage of the new law with a late-night ceremony on the statehouse steps in Concord Monday night. Jennifer Major of Gilmanton, who helped organize the group ceremony, said festivities would begin at about 11 p.m. Monday with poetry readings and live music. The civil unions can take place once the law takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Major and her partner, Kelley Morris, planned to be among the couples saying ''I do.''
Republican Scott Wiggam was caught on video this month shoving a protester who was lawfully demonstrating in favor of LGBTQ+ rights.
Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed ballot measure Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage in the only state that allows it.
