President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the US Supreme Court bodes major trouble for the LGBT community given the judge's track record.

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court has sent labor unions in the country reeling-- and this has possible effects for LGBT workers.

YouTube anti gay ads are currently being run with LGBT video content, making us wonder if the video streaming platform is intentionally jerking our chain.

More areas in the US will now ban conversion therapy against LGBTQ youth, ranging from the state of Washington to the municipality of Milwaukee.

While reproductive technology has made some advances, it's starting to look like the businesses controlling the technology may not be open to LGBTQ people benefiting from it.

Republicans supporting Christian hardliner Roy Moore's senatorial campaign despite the sexual allegations are perfect examples of irony and hypocrisy.

Women taking care of their babies got a victory against breastfeeding discrimination with an Alabama appeals court ruling on a policewoman's case.

Orlando one year after, what's happened since the Pulse shooting that killed 49 people? Has there been efforts to better protect the LGBTQ community?

This is the story of Gavin Grimm, a student who just wanted to go to school like any normal kid-- and ended up going all the way to the high court.

The HRC and LPAC are pushing to get the lesbian vote out for Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton in a last-minute drive before November 8.

LGBT Republicans do think inclusive progress is being made with the party's platform, but any move to undo this inclusiveness is trying their patience.

An investigative report by Reuters noted that attacks against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders are not being reported as hate crimes.

Dubbed the 'Battle of the Bathroom,' the struggle for transgender equality and the fight against LGBT discrimination centers on trans access to bathrooms.

With the advances of the LGBT cause hanging in a balance, President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland for the post of Supreme Court justice.

Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren called on delaying Republican senators to "do their job" on selecting a nominee for the US Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has reversed an Alabama ruling on lesbian adoption rights in a case involving two lesbian parents over their adopted children.

The Center for American Progress has called for humanitarian parole to help reunite LGBT people separated by discriminatory laws in their countries.

The US Marine Corps is instituting some major changes to address the gender gap, even as the US military opens its frontline combat positions to women.

A couple of LGBT surveys have come out this year, detailing the current state of the LGBT struggle as well the state of the LGBT community itself in the US.

The cases of three UK transgender women imprisoned in an all-male prison have drawn attention to the general plight of transgenders in prison.

The ILGA has come out with a video on how people can help stop LGBT violence and discrimination, based on the OHCHR's recommendations.

A global report has warned that not only do LGBT people face dangers from anti-LGBT violence, but also LGBT activists and HIV service providers.

There's a proposal to mark June 26 as LGBT Equality Day in the US. Who would have thought that the 26th of June would have such importance?

The downside of the SC ruling in favor of same-sex marriage last June is that domestic partner benefits in the US gov't are slowly being recalled.

In an opinion piece for Lesbian News, noted activist Robin Tyler writes about Roberta Kaplan, her new book, United States v Windsor, and the defeat of DOMA.

Lesbian rights won a round against discrimination after a South Carolina student was allowed by her school to wear a t-shirt proclaiming she's a lesbian.

Anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church attacked Kim Davis, the Kentucky County clerk who refused to give same-sex marriage licenses.

The Supreme Court has taken no action on appeals asking it to take up the issue of same-sex marriage. The gay marriage cases are not among cases the court agreed to hear in its term that begins next week. The justices are expected Monday to turn away appeals in hundreds of cases, although it is not likely the same-sex marriage cases will be among those. The justices meet again in private on October 10 to consider new cases, and decisions about what to hear could be announced then or on October 14. (Courtesy of HuffPost.com)  

Today, September 22, Judge Edward Rubin of the 15th Judicial District Court ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in a state legal challenge to an amendment in Louisiana that denies same-sex couples the freedom to marry. The case, Costanza and Brewer v. Caldwell, was filed in 2013 on behalf of Angela Marie Costanza and Chastity Shanelle Brewer, who are raising their 10-year-old son in Lafayette. The case sought respect for Angela and Chastity's marriage license; since Louisiana did not respect their marriage, one mother was not permitted to legally adopt her son. The ruling today grants the second-parent adoption and affirms that the Louisiana amendment violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. The ruling today comes just three weeks after U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman became the first federal judge since June 2013 to uphold marriage discrimination, when he ruled in Robicheaux v. Caldwell in favor of marriage discrimination in Louisiana. Judge Rubin's order today is a

Symantec, the software firm behind Norton AntiVirus, routinely allowed customers to filter out LGBTI websites One of the biggest web filtering services in the world has announced they are scrapping a system that allows homophobes to block access to 'gay and lesbian' content. Symantec, the online security firm behind Norton AntiVirus, has routinely been filtering out LGBTI websites offering news, charity and support as they consider them to be essentially the same thing as child porn. The fourth-largest software company in the world, they say the 'lifestyle-sexual orientation' category will now be steadily removed from its databases. 'Making this change was not only the right thing to do, it was a good business decision,' said Fran Rosch, executive vice president, Norton Business Unit, Symantec today (16 September). 'Having a category in place that could be used to filter out all LGBT-oriented sites was inconsistent with Symantec's values and the mission of our software.' While Symantec will allow customers to set their search to block offensive websites,