It’s the largest gay dance festival in the world when men from around the globe converge for White Party, the three-day long annual spectacular, April 8-11 in Palm Springs. With the entertainers scheduled to appear this year, however, you might mistake the White Party for a music festival. “Again this year, we’ve got incredible breakthrough…
CALIFORNIA – The Assembly Committee on Higher Education has approved Assemblymember Marty Block’s (AD-78) bill to improve the campus climates for LGBT students at public colleges and universities. AB 620 would require the California State University and California Community Colleges, and request the University of California, to adopt policies on harassment, intimidation and bullying in…
SAN FRANCISCO – Log Cabin Republicans have filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals calling upon the Department of Defense to end discharges under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy. In a brief filed in San Francisco, lawyers for Log Cabin Republicans said keeping the policy in place was “absurd.” At issue is…
WASHINGTON D.C. – OutServe, the underground network of more than 2,900 LGBT military personnel, has announced the launch of a worldwide publication for gay military members. OutServe magazine contains features about DADT repeal implementation and OutServe chapters, as well as other information of interest to currently-serving LGBT military members. “Our first objective with the magazine…
NEW YORK – A new Washington Post-ABC News poll has confirmed that a majority of Americans support the freedom to marry for same-sex couples – the third national poll to report majority support in the past few months. At 53 percent, the new poll reflects the highest levels of support to date; following nationwide polls…
INDIANA – The Indiana Senate has approved legislation to change the state constitution to ban gay marriage and same-sex civil unions. The vote was 40-10. Now the bill must pass again in the session slated for 2012 or 2014, with a separately elected legislature. If the bill passes again, voters would make the final decision…
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri have sent letters to public high schools demanding that the schools stop viewpoint-based censorship of web content geared toward the LGBT communities. The ACLU was notified that the schools were censoring material after teaming with…
CZECH REPUBLIC – The skeleton of what researchers believe to be a transgender woman who lived 5,000 years ago has been discovered in a Prague suburb. Though anatomically male, the skeleton was buried in rituals and traditions generally provided for females in the Copper Age culture of the area. Men from the era were buried…
MALTA – A transgender man in Malta has won the right to have his birth certificate changed to “male.” The man, whose name cannot be published by court order, was born on May 22, 1984 as a girl, but said in his writ that he had “male inclinations, behavior and orientation both psychologically and externally”…
FINLAND – Thousands of people have reportedly left the Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland after a campaign against homosexuality. The week-long campaign, which was drawn up by several Christian groups, was met with anger. Called “älä alistu” (“don’t acquiesce”), it claimed that gay people can become straight and urged youths not to give in to…
