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What would late civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall say about the current court?

Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet, who once clerked for Marshall and chronicled his career in two books, reflects on how today’s justices have strayed from his example.

The real cost of gay marriage

Allowing gay men and lesbians to legally marry in California will pour billions into the state's economy. So why aren't we being treated equally?

The Impending Veto

Forty years after the Lovings won the freedom to marry, gays and lesbians are still denied what the Supreme Court deemed a "basic civil right."

In a Loving spirit

An open letter to the African-American community on marriage equality for same-sex couples

Netflix's 'Amend' Traces the Fight for Equal Rights for All

The documentary series deals with the Fourteenth Amendment's impact on voting rights, desegregation, marriage equality, and more.

U.S. Navy Launches Ship Honoring Harvey Milk

The USNS Harvey Milk is the second replenishment oiler to be built in a class of ships dedicated to U.S. human rights activists. 

A New Justice

The long road ahead

Fifty years after Brown v. the Board of Education, people forget that most victories in the fight for racial equality came after that court decision outlawing segregation. For gays and lesbians, it's time to steel ourselves for the decades of work we still have to do to achieve equality.

Attorney General Calls For LGBT Equality

In a speech delivered to the Parliament of Sweden, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said LGBT rights are among "the defining civil rights challenges of our time."

People of the Year: Anthony & the Supremes

While Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy deserves special notice for his poetic opinion for the majority, it was the entire court’s role in marriage equality that had the greatest impact on LGBT lives in 2015.

The Gay Male Couple Guide to Nonmonogamy

Mikey Rox and Everett Earl Morrow, both now 30, were committed to monogamy when they met and fell in love.

The Advocate Covers Over the Decades

America's oldest LGBTQ publication has come a long way since its start as a newsletter in Los Angeles in 1967.

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The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers

What is the most essential movie ever for LGBT viewers? There can be only one. We've made our pick, and now you can vote on Facebook and Twitter in a "Clash of the Classics!"