The Advocate: Chris O’Dowd on James Franco and gay Irish celebs

After his breakout performance in Bridesmaids, Irish actor Chris O’Dowd hopes to engage more gay fans this spring with his Broadway debut as oafish simpleton Lennie in Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck’s 1937 play about Depression-era migrant workers — even if they’re mostly there to see James Franco. For its most recent issue The Advocate…

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Oregon Republican conference endorses marriage equality

SEASIDE, Ore. – The government can’t tell you who to love, and it shouldn’t tell you who to marry.  That is the message Freedom Oregon leaders took to participants at the 50th Annual Dorchester Conference in Seaside last weekend.  It resulted in the first-ever endorsement of marriage equality at a Republican-dominated gathering of Oregon political…

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‘Chicana Lesbians:’ SD Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation celebrates Women’s History Month

Join the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation for their first ReadOut event of 2014! In honor of Women’s History Month, they will be celebrating queer Chicana life and literature with readings, book signings and a queer Chicana book fair. Two incredible Chicana lesbian novelists, Carla Trujillo and Felicia Luna Lemus, come together in an…

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The Professional Diversity Network releases March 2014 Diversity Jobs Report

CHICAGO — To complement data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Employment Situation report, Professional Diversity Network, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPDN) has released its latest Diversity Jobs Report.  The report includes a Diversity Jobs Index (DJI), which analyzes the monthly employment condition for women, veterans, disabled persons, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans…

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Juror discrimination case will not be appealed

In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a pharmaceutical contract dispute, Abbott Laboratories v. SmithKline Beecham, that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection to exclude someone from jury service because of his or her sexual orientation.  In doing so, the court also concluded that discrimination based on…

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