ALEXANDRIA, Va. — National PTA, the nation’s oldest and largest child advocacy association, adopted a resolution during its 2016 Annual Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla. on the Recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Individuals as a Protected Class. The resolution calls for federal policies that specifically protect LGBTQ youth and local practices…
The Orlando Gay Chorus took to the stage of Denver’s Ellie Caulkins Opera House this past weekend in front of a 2,500 strong crowd, partway through the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA) Festival to launch into a rendition of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ as a tribute to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. “Orlando…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., — The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which is likely the largest provider of LGBT healthcare in the world, is implementing various system-wide changes aimed at improving LGBT care, including transgender e-consultations to aid interdisciplinary providers and the addition of a self-identified gender identity field to all veteran record systems. These actions…
Florida’s Department of Children and Families has restored protections for LGBTQ youth in group home care. Equality Florida and child welfare experts met with DCF Secretary Mike Carroll immediately after language that would have protected LGBTQ youth was removed from proposed changes to the rules governing group homes. Child welfare agencies had advocated for the…
RALEIGH — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be in Raleigh on Tuesday evening, the candidate’s second visit to North Carolina in less than a month. Will Gov. Pat McCrory join his chosen presidential candidate on stage, or just raise money for Trump like last time? Gov. McCrory has twice pledged to support Trump, and…
WASHINGTON—In light of the recent murder of 49 Latino and Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) people in Orlando, Fla., and on the heels of escalating and unprecedented misguided legislative efforts to pass discriminatory laws, the nearly 7,000 delegates at the National Education Association (NEA) Representative Assembly (RA) Monday approved a new business…
SAN DIEGO — LGBTs In The News with Thom Senzee, the nationwide live-discussion panel series launched in 2012, returns to San Diego Thursday, July 7 at Urban Mo’s in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood. Members of the media, local activists, and members of the public will engage the first-ever LGBTs In The News event featuring a…
Online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims, reports The Wall Street Journal. ChristianMingle has always required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men…
SAN FRANCISCO — The Federation of Gay Games (FGG) announced today the cities that have submitted Letters of Intent (LOI) and the respective fees for the 2022 Gay Games XI bidding process. The 11 cities bidding on Gay Games XI are Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA, Salt Lake City, UT, San…
