Jim Obergefell shares how his love story became the catalyst for one of the most pivotal civil rights victories in U.S.

The ballot board had to determine if the petitions for the Ohio Equal Rights Amendment should be circulated as one or more ...

April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...

I think there are a lot of people who are rightfully relieved,’ Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of ...

We are who we’ve been waiting for. On this 10-year anniversary of marriage equality, we toast to what we have and what we will fight to keep! Happy gay marriage anniversary, and happy Pride! Sandy ...

By Jeanne Rizzo and Pali Cooper– San Francisco Gay Pride weekend marks the anniversary of our first date—the one and only anniversary we celebrated from 1989 until 2008. When Gavin Newsom defied DOMA ...

The Supreme Court finally agreed on June 26, 2015—exactly two years to the day after it overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and 12 years after its 6–3 decision in Lawrence v.

When John dies, his last record as a person—his death certificate—will be wrong because of the Ohio state-level Defense of Marriage Act.

A few other states followed, and 2013 saw two other milestones from the courts: the fall of the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned federal government recognition of same-sex marriages, and of ...

On June 26, 2025, joy emanated on the steps of the United States Supreme Court. Among those in the crowd stood a Cincinnati native, Jim Obergefell.

But five days later, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which had defined marriage as between one man and one woman, in Windsor v. United States. Then, two years later in ...