WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today urged the passage of DC B20-501, the District of Columbia’s “Conversion Therapy for Minors Prohibition Amendment Act of 2013.” “No child should be subjected to this harmful and discredited so-called therapy,” said Sarah Warbelow, HRC’s legal director. “Considering how extremely dangerous this pseudoscience can be, it’s very…
GENEVA — “HIV and AIDS is not just a public health issue. It is a multi-layered social issue – an issue churches in West Africa should not ignore,” says Rev. Godson Lawson, a pastor in the Methodist Church in Togo, a country where 110,000 people are living with HIV and 6,600 lives have been lost…
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga have just released the studio video for “But Beautiful” from their #1 album, Cheek To Cheek. Watch it now, above. From Great Performances “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!” Premieres Oct. 24th on PBS.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today commended Catholic leaders meeting in Rome for using new, inclusive language in referring to the LGBT community. The preliminary but potentially ground-breaking document released today by the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops asserted that LGBT people have “gifts and talents to offer the Christian community,” and, for the first time,…
Media Matters For America latest post reveals how Fox News host Mike Huckabee advised Republicans to “grow a spine” and oppose marriage equality, blasting court rulings overturning same-sex marriage bans as “the betrayal of our Constitution.” During an October 7 interview with the anti-gay American Family Association’s radio program, Huckabee said that he’s “utterly exasperation…
WASHINGTON – In the last week, the number of states where same-sex couples can now legally marry has nearly doubled to 30 and the District of Columbia. All across the country, momentum is continuing to build toward nationwide marriage equality. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has highlighted that the countless thousands of Americans who are now…
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess ruled Sunday that Alaska’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, making Alaska the latest state to see such a ban struck down in court since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic marriage rulings last June. In Hamby v. Parnell, five couples sued the state arguing that Alaska’s ban…
TURKEY — A new umbrella organization has been established to fight homophobia and transphobia in Turkey, the Islamic country that straddles Europe and Asia, reports GayAsiaNews.com In existence less than two months, Turkey LGBTI Union was created in order to ensure unity and solidarity among LGBTI groups, LGBTI Web sites and LGBTI organizations, Burçin Bordanacı…
San Diego’s only LGBT swim team, the Different Strokes Swim Team (DSST) presented a $1,700 check to Christie’s Place Saturday, Oct. 11 at the Mission Valley YMCA Pool. The check was from money raised from DSST’s Bart Hopple Memorial Swim, which the club has run every year since 1991. The Bart Hopple Memorial Swim…
http://youtu.be/ZVFMG8y2G7M A Phoenix gay couple, who were heckled at their first wedding in Coronado back in August were cheered as they took part in a “do over” of their wedding, yesterday at the Coronado Loews. Local resident, Alisa Kerr had contacted the couple by email and along with Cerissa Keiffer, Rita Alipour and Kate Blumenthal…
