This past weekend, mass gun violence was unleashed yet again. This time in Orlando, in a crowded night club. Something like 50 people, fellow human beings, murdered and an equal number injured by one extremist psychopath, armed with an assault rifle. The most casualties in a single gun incident in our nation’s history.

This week, the White House announced the hiring of Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a transgender activist, as an outreach-recruitment officer in the White House Office of Personal Management. (more…)

The next battle on tap for the LGBT community is a legal framework for outlawing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender Americans. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon is a co-sponsor of the bill in the senate. A companion bill has been introduced in the House. (more…)