SEATTLE, Wa. — Gender Odyssey, an international conference focused on the needs and interests of transgender and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people, will be held in Seattle, WA Aug. 19 – 23. The conference is expecting approximately 1,000 diverse set of participants, from practitioners to activists to families to trans and GNC individuals of all ages. This…
Mike Huckabee is well-known for his transphobic remarks. In last week’s Republican debate Huckabee said that the military doesn’t need to accept transgender people and that the military is not up for some “social experiment.” On hearing Huckabee’s comments, transgender congressional candidate and former Navy Seal Kristin Beck was quick to respond with a tweet…
An openly gay high school basketball player has been omitted from a yearbook tribute to the team. Outsports reported that Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky this year had a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the boys basketball team except Dalton Maldonado, the team’s starting point guard who came out…
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that prohibiting same-gender couples from adopting children was unconstitutional. Telesurtv.net reported that a Mexican law prohibiting civil unions that bans both heterosexual or homosexual couples from adopting minors was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on the basis that the union is recognized as…
A man who allegedly attacked the first gay couple to be married at West Point has been arrested by police in New York. According to the Advocate, Thomas Clabough, 57, of Queens was to face a judge Wednesday, on charges of assault and attempted assault as a hate crime. Aug. 2 Clabough entered a deli…
During the Fox News telecast of the first GOP Presidential candidates’ debate, I gasped as Ohio Governor John Kasich, a former U.S. Congressman and close political ally of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, admitted he had attended a same-sex marriage. Kasich, alone among his fellow candidates, actually admitted he didn’t hate LGBT people or the new tradition…
It’s never too late! A Change.org petition has appeared to help bring legendary diver Greg Louganis to the iconic Wheaties cereal box. Louganis set a diving record in the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles when he won two gold medals. He became the first man to reach 700 in platform diving. Louganis was diving’s…
A push to allow Liberal and National members of the Australian parliament a conscience vote on marriage equality has failed, with approximately two thirds of the Coalition party room against. Prime Minister Abbott met with members of the governing coalition who determined that party members will be forced to vote according to party lines, even…
Fliers distributed by the Ku Klux Klan in a recruitment drive in Louisiana contain anti-gay and racist hate speech. “Stop Aids: Support Gay Bashing,” one flier distributed in Mandeville said. “Homosexual men and their sexual acts are disgusting and inhuman.” The flier also called to ban “non-white immigration,” and to “deport mud people,” reports Raw…
Today, Logo announced the television premiere of Out & Around, a documentary that follows couple Jennifer Chang & Lisa Dazols’ 342 day global journey with unprecedented interviews and profiles of LGBT leaders from more than a dozen countries. Logo will premiere the film, in association with the It Gets Better Project, on Logo on Monday,…
