A judge ruled Wednesday an assistant federal public defender’s spouse must be compensated for health care benefits withheld since July 2008 because the couple are gay.

Stephen Reinhardt, a member of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also reminded the bureaucracy that he decreed nine months ago in the same case that withholding benefits based [...]

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today condemned the brutal murder of Jorge Steven López, 19, in Cayey, Puerto Rico.  López’s body was discovered on an isolated road, dismembered and burned, last Friday.  Late Monday night, police arrested Juan A. Martinez in connection with [...]

Florida is one of two states that have instituted bans on adoption for LGBT families, sharing the dubious honor with Arkansas. Thankfully, there’s movement in Florida to overturn this out-dated law that not only fosters homophobia, but punishes children by keeping them away from healthy families.
First a judge last year in Miami ruled that the [...]