Amidst the media flurry surrounding the Obama administration’s decision last week to discontinue court defense of the DOMA, the White House made another landmark move in support of LGBT equality. Officials announced last Friday that Jeremy Bernard, an openly gay senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, will assume the position of President’ Obama’s…
California’s attorney general Kamala Harris requested today that a federal appeals court allow same-sex marriages to resume during the California Supreme Court’s consideration of legal questions surrounding the state’s ban on gay marriage. In a letter to the 9th Ciruit Court of Appeals, Harris argued that a continued enforcement of Proposition 8 was in direct…
Outserve, an organization made up of LGBT members of the United States Armed Services, has recently announced that the Navy will be the first of the branches to implement Tier 3 Training, also known as General Population Training. The training centers on the recent repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, and how…
Organizations in three California cities are expected to announce on Tuesday they are cancelling events that were to feature Nikolai Alekseev, a Russian gay leader/activist currently on his first tour in the US, after the has made anti-semitic and other derogatory comments towards Americans, according to reliable sources. Alekseev was to tour seven US cities…
