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Illinois U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, along with several members of the Illinois U.S. House delegation have co-sponsored the recently introduced Student Non-Discrimination Act. The Act was introduced earlier this week in the U.S. Senate as an amendment to...

PROMO - Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization - announced on Friday that all Missouri counties are now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples following last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling making marriage equality the law of the land. #Boom...

Two southern Missouri judges have decided to not marry any couples - straight or gay - following last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. According to the Associated Press, Laclede County Associate Circuit...

CHICAGO, Ill. – Equality Illinois this week launched a new publication and a series of training seminars to help business executives build inclusive companies that benefit them, their staffs, and the customers they serve. The presenting partner of this project...

As of Wednesday afternoon, Barry County in Southwest Missouri on the Arkansas boarder is the lone holdout in actively issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, according to PROMO, Missouri's statewide LGBT advocacy organization. Barry County is currently "in process" to...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced today that he has issued an executive order mandating all state government agencies must comply with last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Nixon, a Democrat,...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Openly gay St. Louis Alderman Shane Cohn has introduced a bill that calls for raising the minimum wage in St. Louis City to $15 an hour by 2020, KTVI reports. Time is of...

Jim Obergefell and John Arthur had been together for two wonderful decades in 2011 when Arthur was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurological disease that paralyzes the body. It soon became clear that their time together...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Two of the region's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) entities will be merging it was announced today in a conference call with LGBT media. PROMO Fund, the 501(c)3 entity in charge of outreach...

SPRINGFIELD – In a bipartisan vote on Tuesday the Illinois Senate approved a measure to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth from so-called “conversion therapy" to change their sexual orientation and gender identity. Similar legislation passed the...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Senate on Wednesday unanimously gave final approval to a bill enhancing hate crimes protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Illinoisans. Last month, the measure, House Bill 3930, passed the Illinois House of Representatives...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In a bipartisan vote on Tuesday the Illinois House approved a measure to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth from so-called “conversion therapy" to change their sexual orientation and gender identity. In a release...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Continuing its longstanding support of scholarship within the St. Louis lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual, and ally (LGBTQIA) community, Pride St. Louis, Inc. announced Saturday the opening of the application period for the 2015...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A St. Charles County jury recommended a potential 60 years in prison on Friday for a 23-year-old man convicted of infecting another man with HIV and exposing four others to the disease while attending college. The jury...

RAYMORE, Mo. — A Missouri high school teacher was removed from the classroom and placed on administrative leave after he showed students a decades-old public service announcement that depicted gay men as depraved sexual predators. Ken Simon is facing disciplinary...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals announced on Wednesday that they will delay the hearing on cases involving challenges to the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage until after a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the same issue. On...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Local and regional lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history played a prominent role at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at America's Center and Renaissance Grand Hotel, April 16-19. The...

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, on Thursday, sent a new case study to Missouri lawmakers urging them to reject anti-equality bills like the religious refusal bill in Indiana that would put lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people at...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Chamber of Commerce, today, again went on record in opposition to adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Missouri Human Rights Statute in a hearing before the House Civil and Criminal Proceedings...

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that one of two lawyers who have been chosen to argue in favor of same-sex marriage rights before the United States Supreme Court in April has St. Louis ties. Via the...