Lawsuit seeks release of Census data on sexual orientation and gender identity
The information can help in enforcement of civil rights laws, the suit notes.
September 24, 2025
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Defense Department monitored student groups more extensively than previously acknowledged
New information released by the Department of Defense shows that the government conducted more extensive surveillance of student groups protesting "don't ask, don't tell" than previously indicated.
June 28, 2006
Pentagon confirms it spied on gay groups
The Department of Defense released documents confirming that the U.S. government conducted surveillance on gay groups that mounted protest rallies at three colleges, the military advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced Tuesday.
April 11, 2006
Is HUD Keeping Secrets About Rollback of LGBT Programs?
A federal lawsuit seeks information on removal of LGBT references from descriptions of housing and justice programs.
March 2, 2018
Trump Makes It Even Easier to Discriminate Against Women & LGBT People
Language opposing sex discrimination and anti-LGBT bias in health care has disappeared from a government website.
July 19, 2018
Labor Department Stalls on Trans Discrimination Review
In February, Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced that the department would begin reviewing 2012's Macy v. Holder case, determining how best to integrate that decision into department policy.
June 4, 2014
Jeff Sessions Gives Closed-Door Speech to Anti-LGBT Group
Sessions's Tuesday speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom was very hush-hush and closed to the media.
July 12, 2017
Many LGBTQ+ Vets Still Having Trouble Getting Benefits, Suit Says
Some are seeing barriers because of the type of discharge they received, even after the government announced a simplified process.
July 14, 2022
HRC: We're Going After Sessions's Anti-LGBTQ Task Force
The president of the Human Rights Campaign explains what he's doing to stop the antigay attorney general's "Religious Liberty Task Force."
August 10, 2018
Documents Show Debunked Study Was Targeted at High Court
Documents recently released by the University of Texas show that a widely discredited study on family structures by associate professor Mark Regnerus was funded by a right-wing antigay group and intended to provide evidence that gay and lesbian parents are inadequate in order to present that argument to the Supreme Court.
March 11, 2013
Researcher: More Lesbians Than Gay Men in the Military
Lesbians could very well outnumber gay men in the military, according to Williams Institute senior research fellow Gary Gates. "The percentage of lesbians that serve in the military is really quite high," he said. "It's possible that there are more lesbians than gay men serving in the military."
June 25, 2008
DeRay Mckesson Wants You to Come Out of the Quiet
DeRay Mckesson wasn't planning to be on the front lines of a movement. But the educator-turned-activist says there's no turning back in the fight for life, liberation, and justice.
December 24, 2015
Lambda Legal Sues Education, Justice Depts. Over Attack on Trans Youth
The Education and Justice departments must explain why they "pulled the rug out from under transgender students," says Lambda Legal's Susan Sommer.
August 23, 2017
Shocking Report: Doctors Target Tomboy Babies with Off-Label Drugs
A new report details the dangerous experiementation that's been going on in fetal engineering, in which doctors are using a synthetic steroid off-label to prevent lesbian, bisexual, intersex, and tomboy babies.
August 5, 2012
Missouri and Kentucky military bases lead in antigay discharges
An Army base in Missouri used the "don't ask, don't tell" policy to kick out more gay and lesbian soldiers than any other military installation last year.
August 14, 2006
Project 2025’s horrors keep getting exposed on tape
Despite conservatives' concerted efforts to obscure the plan to institutionalize Trumpism, the public keeps learning more about the dystopian plan.
August 17, 2024
