London – A leaked memo from the US Embassy in Paris, to the State Department in Washington, has revealed that French President Nicolas Sarkozy lobbied Russian President Vladimir Putin on the “violent repression of a recent gay rights parade in Moscow.” The parade took place in 2007. The memo followed a dinner meeting on the…
An opinion poll has predicted that gay politician David Norris is ahead in the race for the Irish presidency. The Irish independent senator was preferred by 27 percent of the 1,001 people surveyed. The second place candidate only received 13 percent support from the survey respondents. Mr. Norris has almost 25 years of political experience….
Rio de Janeiro – In Brazil a scandal has been created by the designation of toilets for the exclusive use of gays and transvestites in samba schools preparing for Carnival. Unidos de Tujuca, one of the top Rio de Janeiro samba schools, is one of the schools being asked to use segregated toilets. Protesters have…
London – A gay priest, who sexually propositioned a gay couple who were staying with him, has been fired for “inappropriate” conduct. The London Evening Standard reported that the Reverend David Gilmore, rector of St Anne’s Anglican Church in Soho London, was found guilty of “conduct unbecoming or inappropriate to the office and work of…
The National Organization for Mar-riage (NOM) has just released its 2009 Form 990, a tax form they are required to submit to the IRS. This followed a specific request by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) for transparency. While NOM filed its form on November 14, 2010, it did not disclose the information publicly until the…
The 2010 midterm turnover of the NC legislature finds it now under GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction. Predictably this has produced a raft of bigots going right for the throats of the LGBT community. Right off the bat, there is talk about cutting funding for HIV/AIDS and pushing a marriage amendment, which…
On January 18, 2011, new hospital visitation rights went into effect that will impact millions of LGBT Americans and their families. President Obama saw an injustice, has spoken about hospital visitation often over a number of years and felt very strongly the injustice needed to be addressed. On April 15, 2010, the President directed Health…
A “Top Ten Anti-Christian Events in 2010” list has just been released by Defend Christians.org, a San Diego-based “ministry” of the self-styled Christian Anti-Defamation Commis-sion. The list is the result of an online poll of “Christians and people of good will” at the group’s website. Asking the question, what were the top 10 most egregious…
Chick-fil-A, the chain of fast-food chicken restaurants, has been criticized for its support of a reportedly anti-gay organization. The restaurant chain is listed as a sponsor of a two-day marriage retreat hosted by the Pennsylvania Family Institute (PFI). PFI’s president, Michael Geer, has been vocal in the past regarding his opposition to same sex marriage….
Openly gay Congressional intern, Dan Hernandez, was standing 30 feet away from Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) during a Congress on your Corner event when gunshots were heard. Hernandez ran to where he believed the shots were fired, moving from victim to victim checking for pulses. Hernandez told the Arizona Republic, “I didn’t even know if…
