Top news stories of interest to the LGBT community – full coverage of gay politics, equal rights, same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws.

White House (CNN) – President Obama thanked his gay college professor Monday for being an influence on shaping his thoughts about gay rights issues.

Posts from the Gay rights Category at Politics News, Elections Coverage, Political Analysis and Opinion

The book ends with chapters that discuss the ways in which the political struggle for gay rights has played out in various arenas—in The Politics of Gay Rights

The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. The society is the first gay rights organization as well as the oldest documented in America.

This timeline provides information about the gay rights movement in the United States from 1924 to the present: including the Stonewall riots; the contributions of

The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States vary on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. Since June 26, 2003, sexual

Civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between

Gay Rights in the States August 2009 We present theoretical arguments as to when and how public opinion will shape gay rights policies, high-lighting two potential