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The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) celebrated its 33rd anniversary and their 2009 accomplishments t their annual gala May 1 in San Francisco. Founded in 1977, NCLR is a national non-profit legal organization that works to advance the civil and human rights of LGBT people and their families through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education.

The out MSNBC anchor said the nation's 180 on LGBT civil rights and decriminalized marijuana is nothing short of astounding — and no thanks to Bill Clinton.

The assault on a woman's right to choose runs parallel to right-wing efforts to roll back queer rights.

The freedom to marry will finally arrive in Idaho on Wednesday, according to an order from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Now that the state has marriage equality, Navy vet Madelynn 'Lee' Taylor has the right to a joint interment with her late wife, Nancy Mixner.

A new report finds Netflix, Subway, Amazon.com, Google, & YouTube are the top five beloved brands currently cashing in on gay customer’s patronage. So take care of all that pesky wedding present shopping for the onslaught of same-sex weddings you’re sure to be invited to by shopping LGBT’s favorite brands.

History being made...

At the beginning of October, the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) began to tackle homophobia and transphobia in sports. As a first step they are "collecting the stories of LGBT athletes, coaches and allies who can shed light on the challenges and barriers homophobia and transphobia present.

Three groups of people had never before been mentioned explicitly in a State of the Union address.

Although Chick-fil-A supposedly assured a Chicago alderman that it would stop donating to antigay groups, this week it held a fundraiser for one anyway.

President Barack Obama traveled to New York on Thursday for several fund-raisers with LGBT donors where he celebrated his accomplishments to date but stopped short of an endorsement for marriage equality before asking for more support.

Listening to the media after President Barack Obama -- it's so good to say that, no more president-elect-anyway --  gave his inaugural speech there was disappointment because there was no one easy catchphrase, no one easy quote to take away. Perhaps the era of sound bite politics is over.

President Obama touted the advances his administration has made on LGBT rights and promised more at the White House LGBT Pride Month Celebration this afternoon.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) will honor Jane Lynch and six students from Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District at its 2012 Anniversary Celebration—which marks its 35th year—on May 5, 2012 at San Francisco’s Metreon Cityview with the well-known political humorist Kate Clinton returning for a command performance as emcee.

This weekend we celebrate July 4, with rounds of festivities marking our nation’s 234 years of independence.But this country’s need to showcase her indomitable spirit of heroism continues to come at the expense of basic freedoms and protections denied to us lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans.

For many lesbians, the attacks on abortion availability can be background noise. We focus on problems that seem to affect lesbians more directly, such as same-sex marriage, the military’s dismantling of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, or even the newest lesbian celebrity gossip. When we think about our own reproductive rights, it is more often about becoming pregnant and raising our children. To the extent we consider abortion, it may seem an issue exclusively for our heterosexual sisters.