It is now illegal to discriminate against a current or potential trans employee at Wal-Mart, America's largest employer. The corporation quietly updated its non-discrimination policy to include gender identity and gender expression.

President Obama continues his push to get on our good side (our left, if you were wondering) with word that he will once again give the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.

While giving a speech this morning during a United Nations address on Palistenian statehood, President Obama gave gay rights a shout-out from behind the podium. So, what did Obama have to say to fellow world leaders about the importance of LGBT rights?

Obama for America (OFA) is digitally targeting LGBT voters with ads and video messages... because they love us. Most of the early campaign steps have been to garner volunteers and funding, but one exception is the outreach to LGBT folk. Details and video after the jump.

After polling the country on rights for same-sex couples, it has been leaked that government leaders in the United Kingdom will tomorrow announce a commitment to achieving marriage equality.

It seems like every time Oklahoma's lead bigot Sally Kern makes a dangerously ignorant homophobic remark, the entire country reacts with audible contempt—the entire country except for Oklahoma's government, that is. Why, even after receiving 200,000 emails asking lawmakers to speak out against Sally's hate-mongering vitriol, does Oklahoma's government (on both sides of the aisle) refuse to break the silence?

A bit of positive news for LGBT rights in America (we've had quite the week!) arrives with the City Council in San Antonio, Texas voting in favor of providing domestic partner benefits to its LGBT employees. Details follow.

While we should have been working, planning our weekend trip and/or drinking our Hump Day margaritas, instead we have been sending e-mails telling on hateful legislators. An activist's work is never done. Details after the jump.

While many haters would like to see not only transgender people, but all LGBT people excluded from organized sports, the NCAA has introduced new guidelines to ensure that transgender people can participate at the collegiate level. Read the guidelines after the jump.

While part of the Human Rights Campaign is on a bus winding through the Midwest pushing for marriage equality support, work is still being done on all fronts at HRC headquarters. After the jump learn about HRC's new 50-state initiative to identify All Children-All Families (ACAF) partners for adoption opportuniies.

Are Oregon Republicans finally realizing that having an anti-gay stance is a lost cause? In their efforts to recruit younger generations and LGBT people, social issues are being dropped from the party's discourse, find out more after the jump.

The countless hordes of Western tourists planning their vactaions to Ghana take notice: one member of the Afrianc nation's parliament is chastising tourism "for the indoctrination of homosexuality" in the country.