LGBT equality
Some 300 Occupy activists marched in Manchester, N.H., to counter the blatant homophobia in the Republican debates.
January 12, 2012 : Jeff Bale Far-right Michigan Republicans are behind several pieces of discriminatory legislation that target the LGBT community.
November 16, 2011 Why was I treated differently by police after being arrested at an Occupy Wall Street march? The reason is that I am transgender.
October 6, 2011 Activists demand justice for nine people arrested while peacefully sitting in to demand marriage licenses for same-sex couples.
October 3, 2011 In July, activists held a rally to protest a discriminatory dress code at Nephew's bar in San Marcos, Texas.
August 18, 2011 Marchers gathered to put pressure on Holland, Mich., officials to include sexual orientation in the city's anti-discrimination policy.
August 10, 2011 : Jake Kornegay Though I know polls show ever-increasing support for same-sex marriage, it's exhilarating to actually experience it.
August 10, 2011 LGBT activists came out to block a protest by the National Organization of Marriage on the first day of same-sex marriages in New York.
August 3, 2011 : Juanita Arbelaez New reports show that a brutal 2009 police raid on an Atlanta gay bar was about cops' anti-gay discrimination, not about crime.
August 2, 2011 An estimated 400 people turned out for a late-night march to protest a string of recent anti-gay assaults.
August 1, 2011 More than 100 people marked Pride month with a march through a mainly immigrant neighborhood in New York City.
July 11, 2011 In February 2004, a new LGBT civil rights movement took to the streets in a struggle to win the right of same-sex marriage.
July 1, 2011 : Jake Kornegay On Friday, New York became the sixth state--and the largest one--where same-sex marriage is the law of the land.
June 24, 2011 : Brian Coalson Austin residents came together to celebrate Norma Hurtado and her mother--and protest the bigotry behind their murders.
May 16, 2011 The fight for full same-sex marriage rights is not over, but activists must fight to set the terms of the debate and make the legislature act.
May 12, 2011 I was outraged that a McDonald's employee would film the attack on a transgender woman and encourage the assailants to flee.
May 5, 2011 More than 300 people came together in San Francisco's Mission District to protest an assault on a transgender woman.
May 2, 2011 : Keegan O'Brien Kobe Bryant's homophobic outburst during a game and his supporters' excuses for it tell us something about anti-LGBTQ bigotry.
April 28, 2011 : Christine Darosa A 22-year-old transwoman was viciously beaten inside a McDonald's in the Baltimore area--for using the women's restroom.
April 27, 2011 : Derron Thweatt Retailer J. Crew became the target of a right-wing firestorm when it depicted a boy with pink nail polish on his toes in an ad.
April 26, 2011 : Jackson Bowman A San Francisco activist discusses how the community came together to stop the closing of Lyon-Martin Health Services.
April 18, 2011 I volunteered to serve my country during a time of war, but was kicked out of the Marines for being gay.
April 5, 2011 Nine activists are facing charges from the city attorney for choosing to sit in to demand our civil rights in August 2010.
March 29, 2011 We may not win full civil rights for LGBT people this year or the next, but the only way we ever will is if we keep fighting.
March 16, 2011 Students at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Md., refused to be silent in the face of a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church.
March 10, 2011
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