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On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage was unconstitutional. I was outside the Supreme Court that day, celebrating the advocacy achievement that ...

Fifty-five years ago, a group of LGBTQ New Yorkers rioted, protested, and got arrested when taking a stand against a routine police raid of a gay bar in Greenwich Village. While the Stonewall Uprising ...

Today, is the tenth anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court decision striking down laws banning same-sex marriage. The ruling was a great victory for liberty and equality, and ...

Face Equality International (FEI), an Alliance of worldwide organizations working to end the discrimination experienced by people with facial disfigurements, asserts that disfigurement is a neglected ...

Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard] Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of ...

This blog regularly covers disability and ableism as neglected issues within greater human rights movements. A recent article we co-wrote makes a further point that facial disfigurement is even more ...