In 1974, the Equality Act was introduced to add sexual orientation throughout the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Twenty years later, for various political reasons, the bill was stripped down to be only an ...

Congressional Democrats reintroduced the Equality Act on Tuesday, reviving a long-running effort to enshrine federal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey joined several other members of Congress and LGBTQ+ advocates on Wednesday to announce they were reintroducing the Equality Act, legislation designed to protect LGBTQ+ ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WSET) — Virginia Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, alongside their fellow lawmakers, have taken a significant step towards safeguarding the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans by ...

Democrats in both chambers of Congress on Wednesday resurrected a proposal to extend federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ Americans, vowing to pass the landmark civil rights legislation that ...

Domestic violence is a public health crisis that continues to take lives, forever change lives, and permeate every community in the United States of America. It can happen to anyone, but most victims ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As a kid growing up in Germantown, Andre Carroll spent hours after school at the Police Athletic League Community Center. "The first person to help me with my homework, outside ...

LONDON — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist ...