Author Archives: Lisa Keen

State of the Union: polarizing or forward thinking?

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg called President Trump's State of the Union address "highly polarizing" and said it included "some disturbing efforts...to further divide the American people." Log Cabin spokesman Charles Moran saw it as "forward thinking."

Buttigieg declares victory in Iowa; official results pending

Official results from the Iowa caucuses have not been released, due to a technical glitch, but openly gay presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg declared his campaign "victorious."

Iowa Monday: Buttigieg part of a ‘four-way tie’

Openly gay presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has defied the odds and finds himself in a four-way tie going into Monday's caucus voting in Iowa.

Appeals court rules Indiana must recognize non-bio mom

The Republican-appointed federal appeals judges ruled January 17 that Indiana cannot refuse to put a non-biological mother's name on the birth certificate of the child her wife gave birth to.

Supreme Court will review religious health care exemptions

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will review two appeals decisions that upheld a national injunction against proposed Trump administration regulations that seek to expand the ability of employers to deny coverage for certain procedures by claiming religious, moral, or

How the field looks going around the last turn before Iowa

Here's how the debate, data, and dollars stack up for the top Democratic presidential hopefuls following Tuesday night's debate -the last before Iowa's February 3 caucuses.

Appeals panel rules for servicemembers with HIV

A Fourth Circuit U.S. Circuit Court panel on January 10 upheld a national injunction that prevents the U.S. military from discharging servicemembers just because they have HIV infection.

The Decade: ‘Best of times’ meets ‘Hard Times’

The decade now closing was like a Dickens novel: One year was like the golden age for the LGBT movement, others were filled with a new level of dread and despair.

2019: a surprise star and a looming future

One might argue that 2019 was a pretty good year for LGBT people. An openly gay man rose to the top tier of a large field of Democratic presidential candidates. A second openly LGBT person was sworn into the U.S.

Buttigieg under attack during Democratic debate

Openly gay presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg had to fend off several attacks during Thursday night's Democratic debate and a post-debate poll suggests viewers' perception was that he didn't do as well as his chief rivals.