ARIZONA – An Arizona law that would have ended domestic partner benefits for state employees has been prevented from taking effect by the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. In September 2009, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a budget provision passed by the Arizona legislature that eliminated state workers’ domestic partner benefits by…
MARYLAND – Teonna Monae Brown, 19, who pleaded guilty last month to first-degree assault and a hate crime in the beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, at a McDonalds restaurant, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, plus three years of supervised probation. The April attack drew national…
CALIFORNIA – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that will bar the state of California from entering into contracts in excess of $100,000 with businesses and other entities that deny equal benefits to the same-sex spouses of their employees. The Equal Benefits bill (SB 117) was authored by Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) and sponsored…
NORTH CAROLINA. – A majority of North Carolina voters oppose a Republican proposed constitutional amendment that would ban the state from recognizing same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships. Fifty-five percent would vote against the amendment and only 30 percent would vote in favor of the amendment. The recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey also…
AUSTRALIA – The Australian government has recently introduced new passport rules allowing citizens to nominate their official gender as male, female or indeterminate, without having to undergo surgery as proof of a sex change. The government had previously required a person whose gender was different from that of their birth to have reassignment surgery before…
BELGIUM – Jonathan De Falco, 26, a former soccer player with Belgian team Racing Mechelen, has made ??a surprising career change. The Brussels born star now acts under the stage name “Stany Falcone” in gay porn films. De Falco told the Antwerp Gazette, “It all went quite fast. I do large productions in France, England…
Be afraid … be very afraid. I’ve decided that I will become very active on the Internet with a personal blog and a Facebook account by the end of the year. You can bank on this decision of mine. This will all happen by Jan. 1, 2012. By the way I lost my cell phone…
Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood have voiced their opposition to gay marriage bans. In an interview in the October issue of GQ magazine the pair discuss their upcoming movie J. Edgar and their views on gay marriage. In typical style Eastwood said he’s OK with gay marriage, “These people who are making a big deal…
Last July at Comic-Con International Archie Comics announced that its hugely popular new character, Kevin Keller, the first openly homosexual member of the iconic Riverdale Gang, would get married in a future issue of Life With Archie. Last week, the publisher announced in a press release that the momentous event will take place in Life…
