The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced plans to establish the first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older LGBT individuals.

The Copiah County School District is standing behind a decision not to publish Ceara Sturgis’ senior picture in Wesson Attendance Center’s yearbook because she chose to be photographed in a tuxedo instead of the drape reserved for girls.

A Wesson student is fighting back after being excluded from her high school yearbook for wearing men’s clothing in her class photo.

WLBT reports: Ceara Sturgis, a lesbian teen at Wesson Attendance Center’s high school, chose to have her senior class picture taken wearing a tuxedo. The school has informed her that the photo will not be included in the yearbook.

“People tend to believe that racism, on all sides of the color lines, is something that stops at the gates of the LGBT community… It just doesn’t happen that way,” writes actor Doug Spearman in an essay for the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality Forward series.

LZ Granderson says criticism of Obama from the gay community has gone too far… Read his opinion on CNN then share your thoughts

Panelists discuss these pivotal events; the role the media played in generating visibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people; and what the media accounts got right and wrong.

Is Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie as staged as his MTV Awards brawl with Eminem? An exclusive look at a small Southern town presented as a hotbed of homophobia in the film.

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The ONE IN TEN SCREENPLAY CONTEST, a screenplay contest
dedicated to the positive portrayal of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trangender and
queer individuals in film, celebrates its 11th anniversary in 2009. Entries are
now being accepted online and are limited to the first 600 for 2009. Executive
Director, David Jensen, “We are excited to celebrate our 11th anniversary and
are looking at a record number of entries this year. We have even added a new
contest this year, The Gay (GLBTQ) Movie Title Contest. We are …

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when gays and lesbians fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted homosexuals, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
American gays and lesbians …