In Matthew 14, Jesus preaches a sermon that makes his mission laser clear. To heal the hurting, to bind up the wounded and moving from brokenness to wholeness. I remind you, we’re on this journey together from captivity to freedom; from mourning to joy; from being broken and bruised; from being a faint person hardly…
One of San Diego’s oldest gay organizations The Imperial Court de San Diego is getting ready for their annual Investiture and Prince and Princess Royale Gala. This event will be held Saturday April 13 at The LGBT Community Center. The Prince and Princess Royale work very closely with the reigning emperor and empress. The elections are held…
SYDNEY – The City of Sydney Council wasted no time installing its “Rainbow Crossing” honoring the gay and lesbian community, after it was approved at Monday night’s Council meeting. Actup.org reported the crossing was laid down in the early hours of Tuesday, and completed in time for the morning rush hour and a press conference…
WOLCOTT, Conn. (CTNow/CNN) — A high school student who was threatened with suspension or expulsion for wearing an anti-gay T-shirt last year will be allowed, in the future, to wear shirts expressing his views on homosexuality. School officials said Tuesday that they recognized 17-year-old Seth Groody’s right to free speech, in response to a draft…
http://youtu.be/56HkUDrUQ-w (CNN) — Donnie Collins’ journey from female to male will continue, thanks to a college fraternity that raised money for sex-change surgery. Collins, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston’s Emerson College, learned soon after he joined the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity that his insurance company declined to cover surgery to remove breast tissue to flatten…
(CNN) — Just like she did during the first half of the school year, first-grader Coy Mathis wants to use the girls’ restroom at her Colorado elementary school. But school officials won’t let her. The reason? Coy is transgendered, born with male sex organs but a child who identifies herself as female. She dressed as…
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Chuck Hagel as defense secretary after a bruising political fight. The former Nebraska senator, a Republican, was confirmed by a a vote of 58-41 and will succeed Leon Panetta at the Pentagon. Army Veteran and OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson praised the Senate for confirming Hagel and called on…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Many same-sex couples are losing out on thousands of dollars a year in Social Security benefits because the federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage, a new report finds. When a partner dies, the surviving spouse in a same-sex couple isn’t eligible for the average $1,184 in monthly survivor’s benefits that widow’s…
(CNN) — As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear cases on same-sex marriage next month, dozens of high-profile Republicans have signed onto a brief in a show of support for gay couples to legally wed. The amicus or “friend of the court” legal brief, first reported by the New York Times, includes signatures by…
