November 25, 2024
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2015

ViiV Healthcare awards 23 small grants to help alleviate the stigma of HIV and AIDS in the MSM and transgender community globally

Steve Lee, Editor06 mins

ViiV Healthcare Monday awarded its first round of small grants to support men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender community-led interventions to reduce stigma and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity/expression and/or HIV status. 23 non-governmental and community-based organizations will receive up to £25,000 ($38,000) per year over a two year period…

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Accenture to receive Corporate Equality Award at the 2016 HRC Greater NY Gala

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

NEW YORK – Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that Accenture will receive the HRC Corporate Equality Award at the 2016 Greater New York Gala on Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The award recognizes Accenture’s commitment to equality for the LGBT community. “Accenture is a role model…

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Ahead of international anti-LGBT summit, HRC takes a stand for diverse families

Steve Lee, Editor07 mins

SALT LAKE CITY –  On the eve of an international summit at which thousands of anti-LGBT activists will gather from around the world, the Human Rights Campaign, (HRC) is standing up for LGBT Americans and their families, and against the World Congress of Families (WCF) and its network of affiliates exporting anti-LGBT hate across the…

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Lambda Legal sues U.S. State Department on behalf of intersex citizen denied passport

Steve Lee, Editor06 mins

DENVER, Colo. – Lambda Legal today filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on behalf of an intersex client, Dana Zzyym, denied a U.S. passport because Dana could not accurately choose either male or female on the passport application form, and the form does not provide any other gender marker designation. Though…

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New advice column, ‘Ask Pastor Jones,’ launches to address faith and sexuality in the LGBT community

Steve Lee, Editor04 mins

“You can be a lot of things in the Black church, but Lord, do not be gay.”  — Iyanla Vanzant LOS ANGELES  — Truer words were never spoken by talk show host and self-help guru Iyanla Vanzant: “You can be a lot of things in the Black church, but Lord, do not be gay.” Although society is becoming…

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Russian lawmakers considering making ‘gay propaganda’ law even tougher

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

Conservative lawmakers in Russia are considering making the nationwide ban on gay propaganda even more punitive by adding additional fines and jail time to the law for those who dare to come out in public. The Advocate reports that the new bill is being drafted as an amendment to Russia’s infamous ban on “propaganda of…

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Commentary: Segregation past and present

Steve Lee, Editor08 mins

Reports from near the first capital of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Montgomery, Alabama, show that LGBT couples in the Heart of Dixie, the state’s nickname, are being denied marriage licenses based on clerks emboldened by the momentary misguided political support surrounding superstar anti-marriage clerk Kim Davis. Davis, a lifelong Democrat, recently captured headlines…

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