NEW YORK -- Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a visit to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Tuesday, receiving the host's blessing as a presidential hopeful while touching on issues including equal rights and email and delivering a number of clever lines.

Last January, Compass announced a grant award that would be used to start a groundbreaking new program called The Transgender Economic Empowerment (TEE) Program.

Congressional Democrats have filed a bill to recover benefits for LGBT veterans who were discharged from the Armed Forces simply due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Charlie Crist easily dispatched Nikki Fried in the Democratic primary Tuesday taking about 60% of the vote to her 35%.  

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Liberal discontent with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo could erupt into insurgency this weekend as the left-leaning Working Families Party gathers to nominate its pick for governor.

(PGN) Zach Wilcha already had a coffee meeting (although he drank water; he doesn’t like coffee) and a 20-minute phone call with an LGBT business owner by the time he biked to his glass-walled office at the Industrious Workspace on Broad Street on a recent Thursday morning.

(WB) Fanned by nearly 100-degree heat, tensions ran high during the first day of the Democratic National Convention as Bernie Sanders supporters booed Hillary Clinton at an event designed to promote her candidacy.

Prince William County, Virginia, Delegate Elizabeth Guzmán is calling out WJLA report after they reported inaccuracies about a recent bill. 

(PGN) As America’s two major parties hold their conventions this month, their platforms take opposite approaches to LGBT voters, with Democrats bringing the community closer into the fold and Republicans excising it.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in a tug-of-war over who's the best standard-bearer for progressive values as they road test lines of argument for the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic campaign.

In the face of the growing possibility of a Republican wave this November, Florida Democrats will gather this weekend to figure out ways to motivate the queer vote.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Singer-songwriter Clay Aiken doesn't have a problem with name recognition. But that doesn't mean voters in North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District will send the ``American Idol'' star to Washington to represent them in Congress.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Nan Rich touted her liberal credentials and questioned rival Charlie Crist's credibility Friday as she fights for her party's nomination.

To help heal racial wounds, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn came up with a proposal to make it so “everybody can identify with” the national hymn.

(CNN) -- Bernie Sanders apologized for his aides' breach of Hillary Clinton's proprietary voter data in the opening moments of Saturday's Democratic debate -- and Clinton dropped the issue.

South Florida Gay News (SFGN) Powered By Queer News Tonight reported that Democratic leaders, including State party chair Nikki Fried and Senate minority leader Lauren Book, were arrested at a peaceful protest in Tallahassee over passaging Florida's proposed six-week abortion ban.

The Democratic National Committee announced at its annual summer meeting in Minneapolis recently that they will partner with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to select LGBT-owned businesses to provide services for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. 

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Gov. Ron DeSantis recently passed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Eight Democrats took the stage in Atlanta Wednesday evening to make their case why they should chair the national party.

(WB) Democrats ratified a party platform late Monday called the most LGBT-inclusive in history and a unifying document after a bitter primary.

(WB) Vows to protect transgender health, pass the Equality Act and undo the anti-LGBT policies of the Trump administration are among the LGBT highlights of the party platform Democrats have proposed for 2020.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Tuesday she won't run for a Senate seat from Florida in 2016.

The Dolphin Democrats unanimously passed a resolution calling for the reinstatement of fired Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Larry Scirotto and suspension without pay for City Manager Chris Lagerbloom.

The Dolphin Democrats, Broward County’s oldest gay political club, issued endorsements late Wednesday evening following a long meeting at the Pride Center.

Democrats have taken it on the chin at the ballot box and LGBT has suffered at every turn as a result.

Massachusetts became the first state to elect an openly gay attorney general, while the gay candidate in Maine's gubernatorial race narrowly lost his chance to make history. Nationally, gay-rights activists worried that conservative gains in Congress would hamper their bid for federal anti-bias legislation.

For a man who likes to fix things, the Florida Democratic Party is the ultimate challenge.

President Barack Obama is the man in the middle, caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She beat three other primary candidates and now she’s poised for a chance to become the nation’s first transgender state legislator.