(AP) The former Vermont auditor of accounts and state senator credited as the first openly gay lawmaker in the country elected to statewide office has died.

Tina Kotek, a lesbian, won the nomination for governor of Oregon, and an LGBT center is set to open in Vermont.

A father and daughter are suing the school district after being suspended over transphobic remarks in Vermont, and Catholic leaders are targeting trans students and gay parents in Colorado.

Talk-show host Jimmy Fallon called presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton a "tough mother" and pulled her hair at her invitation on "The Tonight Show."

(WB) Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont against U.S. military officials and the Vermont National Guard, challenging the antiquated, irrational, and discriminatory policies that bar individuals living with HIV from their professional aspirations of enlisting in or commissioning to the military. 

In 1989, I was part of the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, DC, as abortion rights were at risk of being overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The abundance of snow is enticing Vermont skiers to venture off trails into backcountry powder.