Dublin City Council has voted 38-4 to allow same-sex civil marriage there. A press release by Marriage Equality stated two motions in support of marriage equality were put forward by councilors from Labour and Sinn Féin and passed at last night’s council meeting, having been considered jointly. Dublin City Council joins Cork City Council and…
Actor and LGBT advocate Wilson Cruz has joined The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) staff as the strategic giving officer. Cruz will be part of GLAAD‘s development team, helping to fund GLAAD‘s work amplifying stories from the LGBT community that build support for equality. Announcing the appointment Herndon Graddick, president of GLAAD said,…
Nine men were arrested Saturday after yelling anti-gay slurs over bullhorns as they demonstrated at Southern Decadence in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The Times-Picayune reported that “street-preachers” Patrick O’Connell, 45, Rolando Igleasias, 31, Cesar Chavez, 22, Daniel Hoogerhuis, 26, Danny Guevera, 20, Larry Craft, 52, Montes Diego, 32 and Gary Brown, 33 were arrested on…
By Paul Steinhauser CNN Political Editor CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (CNN) — Americans are divided on whether last week’s Republican Convention made them more likely to vote for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new national survey. A Gallup poll released Monday morning indicates that four in ten adults say they are more likely…
A Brazilian man, who adopted a child with his male partner two years ago and requested the same four-month legally mandated leave opportunity from his employer at the time, has just been awarded “maternity” leave by Brazil‘s Social Security agency. Brazilian law mandates that companies provide a four-month paid leave from work for a mother…
Transgender man, Thomas Beatie who hit the headlines 4 years ago when he became the world’s first pregnant man wants to have more children. Beatie who had his first sex-change operation 15 years ago has still got a womb and gave birth to three children with his wife of ten years, Nancy. Nancy was unable…
BY ADAM LATHAM Mr. San Diego Leather 2004 Wow, what a weekend. Everyone planned, worked, and hoped that the new San Diego Leather Pride event, ROMP San Diego, would be fun; but it turned out fantastic. Members the San Diego leather communities have been working hard for this, the very first year that the Mr. and Ms….
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) discriminatory treatment and failure to protect an openly gay former student who faced severe and relentless harassment at Arsenal Technical High School (Tech) throughout the 2011-2012 school year. Rather than address the constant harassment and…
David Koch, the billionaire industrialist who has donated millions of dollars to help elect Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has stated that he disagrees with the Republican stance against same-sex marriage. Koch spoke to Politico during last week’s Republican National Conference, saying, “I believe in gay marriage.” When told Romney was against equal marriage, Koch…
The University of Texas has concluded that no formal investigation of the study methodology used by associate professor of sociology, Mark Regnerus, is warranted in regard to a controversial study he published in the journal, Social Science Research. The study indicates that children raised by gay parents experienced worse childhoods on average than children of married…
