Chris Jarvis

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King & Spaulding Drop DOMA Case

King & Spaulding, the legal firm that had agreed to take up the defense of DOMA in federal courts, has backed out of the deal with Congress. “Today the firm filed a motion to withdraw from its engagement to represent the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives on the constitutional issues regarding

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TONIGHT (Monday April 25th) – Watch Stonewall Uprising on PBS

Watch Stonewall Uprising on PBS tonight, Monday, April 25th at 9PM… Through eyewitness interviews and archival footage, documentary filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner recapture a pivotal moment in time that mobilized a generation of gay activists and marked the dawn of the modern Gay Rights Movement. Much like Rosa Parks’s symbolic refusal to move

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VIDEO: Transgender Woman Beaten at McDonalds While People Watch

WARNING: The attached video is very violent and difficult to watch but illustrates the violence trans people face every day. Use the link in the attached text from Bilerico Project to contact McDonald’s about this incident. Courtesy Bilerico Project… This is absolutely disgusting. After an unidentified transwoman tried to use the bathroom at a Baltimore

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