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Monday, November 16, 2009 - 9:45am By System AdministratorGreat kid. Last week I mentioned Will Phillips, the 10-year-old Arkansan who has refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance until gays and lesbians have equal rights. CNN's John Roberts asks Phillips why the issue is so important to him. Says Phillips...
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Friday, November 13, 2009 - 12:30pm By System AdministratorThe right-wing group America Forever has responded to the LDS Church's endorsement of the Salt Lake City gay rights ordinance by faxing 80,000 over their followers with the fax above. 8: The Mormon Proposition writes: "...we cannot forget that when...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 12:22pm By System AdministratorRhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch has criticized Governor Donald Carcieri's veto of a bill that would have given gays and lesbians the right to make funeral arrangements for their deceased domestic partners. Said Carcieri: "This bill...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 9:15am By Matthew LawrenceTwo odd pieces of news on the gay rights front: Salt Lake City becomes the first place in Utah to pass anti-discrimination legislation against gays and lesbians. The law, which provides gays and lesbians protection from housing and employment...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 4:35pm By System AdministratorIf you're gay and you die in Rhode Island your domestic partner won't be able to make funeral arrangements for you because Governor Donald Carcieri just vetoed a bill providing for that. Why? According to Carcieri, "This bill represents a...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:50am By System AdministratorA rally is planned for 5pm this evening outside Fort Worth City Hall as recommendations by a Diversity Task Force undertaken after the Rainbow Lounge Raid in July come up for a vote at City Council. The task force recommends Fort Worth amend the...
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Friday, November 6, 2009 - 8:36am By System AdministratorSaying the University of Alabama Birmingham's policy of offering health benefits to same-sx partners runs counter to the state's ban on same-sex marriage, state lawmaker DuWayne Bridges has been gathering support for a proposal to block the benefits...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 10:59am By System AdministratorDavid Mixner follows up his post from yesterday with a call to action to the LGBT community as a response to the events in Maine. Says Mixner, calling for a major shake-up: "How can we have any dignity, honor or pride in ourselves if we validate...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 5:47pm By Theresa IkardTaipei, the capital of Taiwan, hosted its first gay pride parade seven years ago. In 2003, that inaugural parade drew 500 participants. In 2006, there were 3000, then 5000 in 2007, and 18,000 last year. This year, the reported numbers were close to...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 4:09pm By System AdministratorAs part of CNN's "Black in America" series, Don Lemon talks to a panel consisting of Tyree 'DJ Drama Simmons, Farrah Gray, Bishop Eddie Long, Tyrone McGowan, and Steve Perry about gay equality, the "down-low", and African-American culture. He...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:32pm By System AdministratorNYT: Six tests for equality and fairness. "Three jurisdictions — New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia — seem tantalizingly close to securing legislative approval for measures ending the hurtful and unjustifiable exclusion of same-sex...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:44pm By Tim McElreavyHope College, a small liberal arts college in western Michigan, has nixed an invitation to Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the film Milk, to participate in a roundtable discussion on sexuality. Dean of Students Richard Frost...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 1:00pm By System AdministratorCOREY JOHNSON Yesterday was an historic day for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. The hate crimes measure named in honor of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. which was signed by President Obama in an early afternoon ceremony...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 7:58am By System AdministratorA really nice montage of speeches put together by Sean Chapin, AFTER THE JUMP...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 6:50am By System AdministratorTom Perez, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, yesterday called for more engagement on LGBT rights on the part of government: "Perez on Wednesday he gave his first speech to division...
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