equal rights

From Texas Standard . Last week, the Illinois State Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment , an addition to the U.S. Constitution that would...

With a final vote Wednesday, Nevada approved the ERA, long after Congress' 1982 deadline for ratification. But the state has given the amendment's supporters new reason to hope.

"We may rank number one in the world at the moment, but the job is not done still," Iceland's Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson says.

HAGATNA, Guam — There were no flowers. There was no music. The onlookers witnessing Guam's first wedding of a gay couple were mostly members of the…

AUSTIN — Divisive efforts by Texas Republicans to defy the U.S. Supreme Court if same-sex marriage is legalized ended Wednesday night with conservative…

Both sides in the debate conceded that the referendum to enshrine marriage equality in the Irish constitution has succeeded.

HOUSTON — Beau Miller and Patrick Summers have been dating for four years, but last December was the first time they spent Christmas at Miller’s parents’…

The June 1969 Stonewall riots in New York sparked the gay rights movement. But three years earlier, unrest in San Francisco marked the transgender community's public debut in the rights struggle.

AUSTIN — The national debate over religious objection laws roiled again Thursday in Texas, after Republican lawmakers abruptly pushed a new proposal on…

People have been lining up for days hoping they will be among the lucky ones to get a seat for Tuesday's historic arguments. At issue: whether states can ban, and refuse to recognize, gay marriage.