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Maggie Gallagher, the chairman of the board for the National Organization for Marriage will testify Friday morning at a House subcommittee hearing titled "Defending Marriage."

The Minnesota preacher who filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Minnesota Independent reporter Andy Birkey has a long track record of broadcasting antigay comments, Think Progress LGBT's Zack Ford writes.

The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken’s most recent project, the CBS pilot Quean, about a female hacker, has been axed after it was embroiled in a copyright tug-of-war for bearing too close a resemblance to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo franchise.

Covered California announces statewide partnership in targeting LGBT people to enroll in the Affordable Care Act.

We all know that Fox News is not exactly a haven progressive feminist thought. But while we've perhaps come to expect some phallo-centric douchebaggery from the right-leaning "news" organization, a discussion on host Lou Dobbs's show Wednesday truly illuminated the misogyny characteristic of the network's talking heads.

Members of Parliament in the island nation of Malta approved legislation Monday granting same-sex couples the right to enter into a civil union and adopt children together.

Ever wonder what lesbian life is like in The Big Easy? Creator of FabFemme.com Aryka Randall now brings you Girl Play, a web series loosely based on her life and friends in New Orleans, and we've got the series premiere below.

Ever wonder what lesbian life is like in The Big Easy? Creator of FabFemme.com Aryka Randall now brings you Girl Play, a web series loosely based on her life and friends in New Orleans. The series premieres later this month but we’ve got an extended preview of it below.

Six Florida couples are challenging the law that bars same-sex couples from marrying.

No need to worry--the ladies have this one.

For many lesbians, the attacks on abortion availability can be background noise. We focus on problems that seem to affect lesbians more directly, such as same-sex marriage, the military’s dismantling of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, or even the newest lesbian celebrity gossip. When we think about our own reproductive rights, it is more often about becoming pregnant and raising our children. To the extent we consider abortion, it may seem an issue exclusively for our heterosexual sisters.

Equal rights for everyone, including gay and lesbian people wanting to marry, might already be encompassed in the Constitution, in the 14th Amendment. 

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You may have heard that there's a Veronica Mars MOVIE in the works! Here's why you should catch up STAT!

Brandon is just ruining EVERYTHING!

In the latest surprising twist along the long and winding path of the Maryland marriage equality bill, the house of delegates voted Friday afternoon to recommit the bill to committee, effectively ensuring there would be no further action on the bill until next year.  Following three hours of impassioned debate, house chairman Joseph Vallario proposed the motion to recommit, which delegates approved in a voice vote. The procedural maneuver sends the bill back to the judiciary committee, where it can be taken up again in 2012. The committee advanced the bill by a 12-10 vote last week.

Despite high-profile gains in the fight to establish marriage equality, conservative officials in states across the country are digging in their heels when it comes to denying LGBT people basic rights.

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