We need your help – a message from Kate Kendell at NCLR, an urgent call to cction: Please join the National Center for Lesbian Rights and other co-sponsors of the bill—Equality California, Transgender Law Center, GSA Network, and Gender Spectrum—to make a difference in the lives of young members of our community. It only takes [...]

A dangerous bill racing through the Florida legislature would overturn several of Florida’s strongest local LGBT rights policies and would block future policies statewide. SB 726 by Senator Simmons is a way to eliminate requirements on what kind of benefits businesses must offer their employees. The bill has already passed the House of Representatives and [...]

Reps. Pete Visclosky and Ron Kind have joined the side of marriage equality for all Americans. Two Democratic Congressmen endorsed marriage equality Thursday. In statements on their Facebook pages, Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) joined the vast majority of their Democratic colleagues and two House Republicans in supporting equal marriage for [...]

MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA STANDS UP FOR EQUALITY FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES ON TAX DAY UPDATED: April 15, 2013. MEUSA: Our hearts and thoughts are with the victims and the injured in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as with their families and friends. In solidarity with all of those affected by the traumatic events we are canceling the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – , Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, attended the Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of U.S. v. Windsor, a landmark challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  DOMA defines marriage for purposes of federal law as “only [...]

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, AFER’s federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. Two couples, Kris Perry & Sandy Stier and Paul Katami & Jeff Zarrillo, are represented by Ted Olson and David Boies, who argued that Prop. 8 violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of [...]

The Amicus Brief which makes the argument for why – with thanks to Howard University, Prof. Aderson Francois and his team and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Ayesha N. Khan, Legal Director and her team. The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) says in its talking points against marriage equality that if [...]

Same-Sex Couples File Lawsuit Seeking the Freedom to Marry in New Mexico Marriage equality is coming to New Mexico! Albuquerque, NM, March 21, 2013)—Today, two same-sex couples seeking the freedom to marry filed a lawsuit in Albuquerque’s district court after they applied for and were denied marriage licenses by the Bernalillo County Clerk. The lawsuit [...]

Will their Rally be a flop?  If you value your equality help ensure it is! If you have yet to be persuaded to come out maybe this will help: WHY you must come to D.C. to Rally for marriage equality: Arch enemy NOM, the anti-gay group founded by Maggie Gallagher, is begging for money and [...]

  Marriage Equality USA belongs to the United for Marriage Coalition which is sponsoring Light the Way to Justice events that are taking place across the country leading up to and during March 26-27, 2013, when the Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) will be listening to oral arguments on the challenge [...]