Human Rights Campaign

Iowa court: Married same-sex parents must be on birth certificate

2013-05-04 08:00:00

Iowa parents in same-sex marriages must be allowed to have both their names listed on their newborn’s birth certificate, the state’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled. Officials with the state’s Department of Public Health have...

Openly gay athlete Jason Collins is what 'we've all been waiting for'

2013-04-29 13:54:00

National political leaders, gay rights groups and entertainment icons on Monday spoke in support of Jason Collins, the first active professional athlete to come out as gay. The 34-year-old Los Angeles native, who helped lead Harvard-Westlake School to...

A power play on the dance floor unsettles the score

2013-03-02 00:00:00

Being swirled around the ballroom was different from how I approached life: in control. But there I was, being blindly guided to step, turn, twirl and dip to changing tempos. "There should be absolutely no jerking of the body," the dainty instructor...

Sen. Mark Kirk announces support for same-sex marriage

2013-04-02 12:09:00

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday announced that he supports gay marriage, joining a growing list of U.S. senators who offer such support. "When I climbed the Capitol steps in January, I promised myself that I would return to the...

Gay marriage gets its day in court and on the Web

2013-03-26 15:21:00

Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court arguments over whether gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry in California became a spectacle both in D.C. and on the Web. In Washington, demonstrators expressed both opposition to and support of same-sex...

Supreme Court turns to Defense of Marriage Act today

2013-03-27 07:22:00

The day after hearing arguments over the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court will continue to wade into the issue of gay rights Wednesday as it hears a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. As Times...

At the Supreme Court, arguments on gay marriage inside and out

2013-03-27 07:59:00

WASHINGTON — With arguments underway Wednesday in the Supreme Court over whether the federal government should recognize gay marriage, activists on both sides of the debate competed for eardrums outside by cranking up the volume of protest songs...

Hillary Rodham Clinton announces support for same-sex marriage

2013-03-18 09:56:00

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton, free to dip her toe in the water of domestic politics after four years as the nation’s chief diplomat, joined other leading Democrats in endorsing same-sex marriage. Clinton’s announcement –...

Jeanne Manford dies at 92; co-founder of group for parents of gays

2013-01-10 00:00:00

Her message was as simple as it was powerful, a quiet, courageous statement of unconditional love. Walking alongside her son in an early New York City gay pride parade in 1972, elementary school teacher Jeanne Manford carried a sign she had written...

Chuck Hagel's mea culpa to the LGBT community

2012-12-24 10:11:00

A few days ago there was speculation that President Obama would introduce two Cabinet nominees last week -- Sen. John Kerry for secretary of State and former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska for secretary of Defense. But Kerry stood alone with...

Fitting allies: Timeline on fashion industry's support for gay rights

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita's Tie the Knot bow ties are not the first product to emerge from the intersection of fashion and the marriage movement. Here's a brief timeline of other recent occasions when the fashion industry showed its support...

Election shows country is changing, gay marriage advocates say

2012-11-07 11:02:00

Same-sex marriage advocates are reveling in their four victories at the ballot box after 32 straight defeats, calling the results in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington on Tuesday a sea change for the gay rights movement. “When the history...

The elementary school teacher who walked alongside her son in a New York City gay pride parade in 1972 became the cofounder of the support group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG. President Obama praised Manford in a 2009 speech to the Human Rights Campaign.

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