Army takes groundbreaking steps to protect transgender troops

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Army announced today it is elevating authority to discharge transgender service members to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), the highest level at which that authority has ever been reserved. Prior to today’s announcement, local unit commanders were authorized to approve transgender soldiers’ separation orders. This…

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Adam Carolla is ‘done apologizing’ for jokes about race and sexuality (VIDEO)

When Adam Carolla stopped by HuffPost Live on Thursday, the comic responded to a viewer who asked for his take on Calling Out Carolla, a Tumblr blog that documents “anti-LGBT language” Carolla has used. Carolla: “Go find a politician or somebody who’s in charge and poke a popsicle stick up their butt. I’m a comedian. I’m done apologizing,…

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Neil Patrick Harris on hosting the Oscars again: ‘I don’t know that my my soul could take it’

Neil Patrick Harris doesn’t think he could host the Oscars again. He told Variety.com: “I don’t know that my family nor my soul could take it, “It’s a beast. It was fun to check off the list, but for the amount of time spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don’t know that it’s a delightful…

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ASA files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in support of marriage equality

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus curiae brief yesterday with the Supreme Court of the United States in the same-sex marriage cases currently pending before the court. The ASA’s brief highlights the social science consensus that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by different-sex…

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