“Ex-gay” survivor and Advocate contributor Jallen Rix talks about a new study that compares the actions of the reparative therapy movement to genocide.

COMMENTARY: The Arizona immigration law is still alive and well...  and dangerous, and Lambda Legal's Jon Davidson and Francisco Dueñas says gays and lesbians need to join the fight.

Brittany Novotny is hoping to become Oklahoma's first transgender state representative — by giving the boot to Sally Kern.

Tuesday’s Illinois primary election boasted numerous openly gay candidates and saw wins for several.

Following her historic election in Houston over the weekend, mayor-elect Annise Parker talks about her hard-fought campaign—and her emerging role as a gay politician on the national scene.

Right-wing group's spending gets desired results in Maine but not in Washington.

OurScene TV’s Blake Hayes filed a video report from New York City’s Union Square, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the vote in Maine Tuesday that overturned marriage equality in that state.

As the curtain lifted on same-sex marriages in the nation’s capital in early March, the country witnessed the most diverse showing yet of gay couples entering into matrimony.

He’s aggressive, calculating, and determined to end inequality for gay and lesbian couples once and for all. This is why Chad Griffin, mastermind of the federal lawsuit against Proposition 8, is the new face of the marriage movement.

Senator Bennett's health care bill amendment that sought to strip D.C. of marriage equality was defeated in a largely party-line vote.

Reports that a gay couple was denied admittance into a taping of Top Gear, a British television show for car enthusiasts, have forced the BBC to release a statement insisting that it does not discriminate against gays.

Rupert Murdoch wants to make all the news his News Corp. media empire generates unavailable to Google users. Is this mere folly or a move that could further divide our divided nation?

Just hours before President Obama is scheduled to sign the Matthew Shepard and James Bryd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Eastern), the Human Rights Campaign has released a tribute video to Judy and Dennis Shepard, who have lobbied for passage of this legislation since they lost their son Matthew to hate-motivated murder in 1998. 

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church found themselves outnumbered during their anti-Semitic protest at Rutgers University on Wednesday.

David Mixner has been volunteering, getting arrested, and standing up for noble causes since he was in high school. As the Point Foundation honors him with its Legend Award April 19, Mixner reflects on decades of activism and what's to come in the future.

Robert Gibbs took exception to Congressman Barney Frank’s charge that the White House is “ducking” on a “don’t ask, don’t tell” timeline, but Gibbs provided no specifics on timing for repeal. 

As Lt. Dan Choi is asked to return to his unit, thousands of other service members wait for the military to reopen the doors to their future.

Washington, D.C., has become a temporary tundra, but Capitol Hill shows signs of thawing on repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Brittany Novotny is hoping to become Oklahoma's first transgender state representative — by giving the boot to Sally Kern.

A show-of-hands vote killed a bill that would have protected Virginia's gay state employees from discrimination.

If he gets his way, Steve Pougnet, the gay mayor of Palm Springs, will unseat Chaz Bono’s stepmother from Congress.

Will Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts cause Democrats to shrink even further from gay rights? 

He’s aggressive, calculating, and determined to end inequality for gay and lesbian couples once and for all. This is why Chad Griffin, mastermind of the federal lawsuit against Proposition 8, is the new face of the marriage movement.

Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, two of the four plaintiffs challenging California’s Prop. 8 in federal court, talk to Advocate.com about their resolve (and occasional nerves) during the testimony phase of the trial.

After 12 days of arguing from nearly every conceivable angle that marriage is a fundamental right, the plaintiffs' co-lead attorney David Boies tells The Advocate, "I think we’re at the cusp of putting this discrimination behind us."

In Tuesday's testimony David Blankenhorn had great difficulty in answering this question: Do any scholars assert that permitting same-sex marriage would result in a lower rate of heterosexual marriage?

A battle over statistics dominated Tuesday’s testimony at the federal Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco.

Granting hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples is one of many small steps President Obama has taken to advance equal rights for LGBT Americans, but he has yet to deliver on big campaign promises.

As Congress returns from recess this week, pro-equality bills enter into a critical period that could indicate the beginning — or the end — of LGBT legislative aspirations for the year.