This morning That’s My Congress has released a report scoring the legislative performance of members of the LGBT Equality Caucus of the House of Representatives in the 111th Congress. The report takes 12 bills identified by the caucus as a slate of legislation in support of civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. [...]

In her campaign to be elected as Ohio’s 15th District representative to the U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Kilroy asked for help. On August 31, 2008, about fifty members of Columbus’ gay and lesbian activist community turned out in a Get Out the Vote operation for members of the Democratic Party up and down the ticket. [...]

Obama’s base of popularity appears to be crumbling now, due to his support for DOMA’s discrimination against same-sex couples. It seems to be a good time to press the issue, but not one bill seeking to overturn DOMA exists in either house of Congress. Why?

Unlike many of his rivals for the 10th district’s seat in Congress, Jeremy Cloward has given a clear, unambiguous statement in support of full marriage equality for all couples, heterosexual and homosexual alike

The amendment would also nullify civil union laws, or any other state of union “having the legal incidents of marriage”.

If volume were an indicator of success, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2) would be a knockout. Jackson has introduced no fewer than nine amendments to the Constitution of the United States this year. Let’s take a peek at these, the Jackson Nine: Jackson Amendment 1: H.J. Res. 28, providing a universal right to vote for [...]

Dan Lungren, Republican Representative for California’s 3rd congressional district, has taken a step backward in history with the introduction of House Joint Resolution 37. Although the United States did not begin as a nation that embraced equality for all its citizens, in the 222 years since the drafting of the Constitution we have come to [...]

For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.

It’s fair to say that, if John McCain had been elected President, he would have used his power to veto the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and frustrated the ability of workers to seek compensation when they are discriminated against.

You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]