When President Obama signs the hate crimes law on Wednesday , an important six-year journey will be complete. What won't be fulfilled, ...

Congressman Pete Stark (D-California) has introduced H.R., 3827 , the Every Child Deserves a Family Act. The bill would prohibit entities ...

Blogging has clearly become too incestuous when I am tempted to write about someone who posts anonymously at another blog. But in this case...

The Knox County Election Commission does a great job of making candidate information public. They use a Facebook page to make citizens qu...

guest post by Nancy VanReece , TEP Foundation board member The sister agency to TEP, The TEP Foundation , is rolling out fantastic opportu...

Tonight Metro Councilman Sam Coleman withdrew his substitute non-discrimination ordinance, BL2009-526 , which was to be on third and final r...

The Family Action Council of Tennessee has been writing about the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the Respect for Marriage Ac...

In my last post, I talked about developments in Illinois and Texas that put those two states on the road to marriage equality. I mentioned...

Some interesting marriage equality news has just come out. A Texas judge ruled today in a "gay divorce" case that the state'...

Mike Byrd longs for the days when so-called progressives got their panties or boxers in a wad over the TN Eagle Forum. I'll admit tha...

An East Carolina University study concludes that gay and lesbian couples are as fit to adopt children as their straight counterparts. Let...

Last week, the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center launched a billboard advertising campaign for National Coming Out Day in O...

Mayor Karl Dean signed BL2009-502 today around 11:00 a.m. Central Time. The ordinance prohibits discrimination in Metro government employ...

" ...having chosen the terrain, each charge achieved the maximum impact ." So Desmond Seward describes the 13th century military ...

Adam Bink has an interesting post at Open Left about a controversy within the GLBT community about the National Equality March and whether ...

The Tennessee Equality Project endorses the National Equality March . We support the stated goal of "Equal protection in all matters g...

One could say a great deal about why the effort to pass the Metro non-discrimination ordinance succeeded. I had thought about writing exten...

This morning, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced a bill in Congress to repeal the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act....

WMCTV5 and the League of Women Voters held an informative and entertaining forum at Opera Memphis featuring candidates for Mayor of Memphis...

The Rev. Dr. Kenneth T. Whalum, Jr.'s response to media inquiries over why his church expelled a lesbian couple from a worship service a...