Historic moment as Laphonza Butler becomes first openly LGBTQ+ individual appointed as California's U.S. Senator. Governor Newsom fulfills promise of a Black woman in the Senate. LGBTQ+ rights gain another advocate.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, a measure taken up in response to worries the Supreme Court could overturn a 2015 decision tha…
NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A “rainbow wave” that lifted record numbers of LGBTQ+ candidates to victory in the U.S. midterms is a promising sign of growing acceptance, but tough legislative fights st…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate votes on legislation protecting gay marriage on Thursday were put off until after the Nov. 8 congressional elections, as negotiators failed to win enough Republican support to ensure p…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate could add language protecting gay marriage rights to a stopgap measure to keep the federal government funded and running, in a bill that will need Republic…
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the sex abuse trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and a Memphis litigator at the law firm Butler Snow to serve as fe…
(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed two more of President Joe Biden's federal appeals court nominees, including a Vermont state supreme court justice who will become the first openly LGBTQ female circuit jud…
