It is safe to say that our military is fighting a war on three fronts, as opposed to two. There is Iraq. There is Afghanistan. Then there are the frontlines of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” battle, which is really nothing more than a butcher-block of political ideology, and has...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A gay couple has filed a federal lawsuit in Cheyenne challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman. David Shupe-Roderick, 25, and Ryan W. Dupree, 21, who are representing themselves in court, although neither is a lawyer said the Laramie...

The Common Application, a generic application aspiring college students can use to apply to multiple colleges at once, is considering adding voluntary questions about applicants’ sexual orientation and gender identity. The application is used by hundreds of colleges and universities — including...

Everyone’s all abuzz about the Target flashmob that happened in a West Seattle ! Not gonna lie … it’s pretty friggin’ epic! That aside, what’s even more epic is Target’s blaring mishandling of the situation. Their Public Affairs staff should be fired, hired, and...

As many of you may have already figured out, we hear at Speak Equal took a bit of a blogging recess this past summer. Nothing horribly and dramatic happened, merely several of our teammates and moving parts had a summer chock full of classes, work, training, and travel. With that being said, it’s...

A nearly 20-year study following 78 lesbian parents through their pregnancy and into their children’s adolescent lives has found that their children are doing fine. That is, they’re doing fine socially, psychologically, and academically. In fact, they even show signs of being less prone to...

Teaching Tolerance’s new documentary, Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History, shows how one bullied student stood up to his tormentors. The Teaching Tolerance is a program run by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and works to foster school environments that are inclusive and nurturing...

Despite vote counts that indicated it could pass the full New York state senate this month, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which would protect against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in areas like housing and employment, died Tuesday morning in the senate...

The New York Life Foundation has announced grants totaling $150,000 to two organizations offering safe places to learn and grow and educational enhancement opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people. The Foundation made a $50,000 grant to the Lesbian...

A prominent gay rights organization says eight of 17 Washington-area hospitals do not explicitly include a reference to sexual orientation in their patient nondiscrimination policies. The report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation follows President Barack Obama’s mandate that...