WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate mass spam texts that are taking aim at President Barack Obama, marriage equality, and a number of other progressive issues.

Recently, HRC supporters have received unsolicited anti-gay text messages such as: “Obama endorses the legality of same-sex marriage. Say No to Obama at the polls on Nov 6.”

WASHINGTON – During an interview with MTV conducted Friday at the White House, President Barack Obama confirmed his support for marriage equality and LGBT equality.

Obama said it should be up to individual states to determine whether to approve marriage-equality laws and said he expected the courts to weigh in on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which he believes is unconstitutional.

The President noted that he originally supported civil unions, but that his opinion evolved as he spoke to same-sex couples who persuaded him that civil unions were not equal to marriage.

LONDON, Ky. – Two cousins have been found guilty of kidnapping in a 2011 attack on a gay man, but the jury acquitted them of federal hate-crime charges.

The case was the first-ever prosecution under a federal hate-crimes law signed by President Obama.

Despite testimony from friends and relatives of the two cousins that they used anti-gay slurs during the attack, the jury late Wednesday rejected the prosecution’s argument that Kevin Pennington, 29, was assaulted because he is gay.

LGBT Americans are remarkably unlike straight Americans in their political leanings and party identification, a new study finds.

A recently released Gallup Report shatters the myth that LGBT Americans are liberals who dutifully vote Democratic during elections. And indeed on Tuesday, the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Mitt Romney, one of the most anti-gay political candidates in modern history.