In response to news of his cancelled California speaking tour, Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseev published a statement yesterday to address controversial, seemingly anti-semetic blog posts published in response to recent revolutionary events in Egypt. Alekseev began his statement by emphasizing his strong belief in human rights and equality for everyone, “irrespective of any…
As part of a planned increase in education enrichment programs, the White House will host a conference next week at which President Obama will address concerns surrounding anti-LGBT bullying. In the wake several high-profile, bullying-related suicides last year, the issue of LGBT bullying and its effect on education and safety has received new attention and…
Chief Justice John Roberts summed up today’s Supreme Court ruling in the case of Snyder v. Phelps with a simple statement: according to 8 out of 9 justices, the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church members who protested at the funeral of gay Iraq war veteran Matthew Snyder “had the right to be where they were.” MetroWeekly…
UNITED KINGDOM – Hundreds of people gathered outside the locked doors of the John Snow pub in Soho, London last week and staged a mass kiss-in at 7 p.m. as a protest at the London pub after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing. Several weeks ago two men were asked to…
