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The Electoral College: Why do we have it and how does it — or doesn't it — work

Here's why presidential candidates have to concentrate on a handful of swing states and why the winner of the popular vote doesn't always become president.

Op-ed: Marching on Washington and the Issues We All Face

Whether our cause is ending racial discrimination or boosting LGBT rights, we're all in this struggle together.

Transphobia Is the Official Position of the Trump White House

The exclusion of trans people from the armed forces is an injustice to all trans people, regardless of our relationship with the military.

WATCH: Do We Need 100 More Jesse Helmses?

Rising Republican star Ted Cruz says we do.

Careful or Maxine Lapiduss will sing about you too

The writer and performer sings her heart out about the Secretary of State.

An Interview Between Bayard Rustin and Joseph Beam

Read this exclusive 1986 interview between Bayard Rustin and Joseph Beam about gay rights, which is now available in the republished book Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin.

Where’s the outrage?

America's GLBT leaders were largely silent in the wake of Sunday's far-right (and, de facto, antigay) rally called "Justice Sunday: Stop the Filibuster Against People of Faith." We should all be ashamed--and scared

Former Republican N.C. Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86

Former senator Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists, and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. ''It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men,'' said former North Carolina GOP representative Bill Cobey.

The Atlantic, James Kirchick Dishonor Pride With a Serving of Crap

Black trans women are dying, LGBTQ rights are being chipped away, and The Atlantic thinks it's a good idea to publish a neocon who says all our problems are behind us.

1973: When the LGBTQ+ Movement Caught Fire

Stonewall shook the establishment, but four years later, queer rights started to take over the mainstream.

Biden Champions LGBTQ+ Rights Amidst Global Challenges in Keynote Speech

The president and first lady address discrimination in global human rights and urge unity against hate at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.

Sparks on fire

He's angry with the president. He's tired of being misunderstood. And he's ready for another season of making out with Robert Gant. Queer as Folk star Hal Sparks lets fly with an in-your-face interview