We are approaching the one year anniversary of the passage of Marriage Equality in New York State. 

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law on June 24th, 2011 ending years of struggle and enabling couples to legally marry in New York and share the same rights as heterosexual couples ...

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A Baptist Church in North Carolina has taken an unusual stance in the fight for equality in marriage.  As noted in the Huffington Post article Pullen Memorial Baptist Church has elected not to perform marriages for heterosexual couples as long as same sex couples are barred from marriage. This is ...

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A great article was published via the NY Times today with financial aid application tips for kids with lesbian, gay and/or bisexual parents in a variety of parenting situations.

I applaud the NY Times for including information that is key to accessing education for married LGB folks and the ...

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Our Families: LGBT Latino Stories

Our Families: LGBT Asian and Pacific Islander Stories

Our Families: LGBT African-American Stories

This series of interviews and stories about LGBT people in African-American, Latino and Asian and Pacific Islander communities was created as part of BasicRights' Our Families campaign in Oregon that gives LGBT ...

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Today is the thirteenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death.

While I was only eight years old at the time of his death, like many other youth of my generation, his death shaped my understanding of what it meant to be LGBT in America. Througout my childhood and teen years ...

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We borrowed this from Reverend Irene Monroe's blog on queer issues and spirituality. We thought her writing on this issue is really thought-provoking and important.

Black Queers Tying Knot

More and more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of African descent are marrying.

An idea that was once ...

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