NEW YORK – Freedom to Marry (FM), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund (NGLTFA) have teamed up to form United for Marriage, a national effort to recruit volunteers for the state campaigns. The campaign will use two programs to harness the growing support for marriage for…
Citing her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment as guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Chief Judge Mark Wolf of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts has ordered that an inmate serving time for murder be given gender reassignment surgery “promptly as possible.” This is the first time a federal court…
SAN FRANCISCO – A report from the California attorney general’s office published yesterday reveals that hate crimes involving a sexual orientation bias decreased 12.5 percent, from 279 in 2010 to 244 in 2011. Sexual orientation hate crimes were the second most common type of hate crime, comprising 23 percent of hate crimes reported in 2011….
Dublin City Council has voted 38-4 to allow same-sex civil marriage there. A press release by Marriage Equality stated two motions in support of marriage equality were put forward by councilors from Labour and Sinn Féin and passed at last night’s council meeting, having been considered jointly. Dublin City Council joins Cork City Council and…
Actor and LGBT advocate Wilson Cruz has joined The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) staff as the strategic giving officer. Cruz will be part of GLAAD‘s development team, helping to fund GLAAD‘s work amplifying stories from the LGBT community that build support for equality. Announcing the appointment Herndon Graddick, president of GLAAD said,…
A Brazilian man, who adopted a child with his male partner two years ago and requested the same four-month legally mandated leave opportunity from his employer at the time, has just been awarded “maternity” leave by Brazil‘s Social Security agency. Brazilian law mandates that companies provide a four-month paid leave from work for a mother…
The University of Texas has concluded that no formal investigation of the study methodology used by associate professor of sociology, Mark Regnerus, is warranted in regard to a controversial study he published in the journal, Social Science Research. The study indicates that children raised by gay parents experienced worse childhoods on average than children of married…
GLAAD‘S 2012 Network Responsibility Index reflects the changing times for LGBT people, revealing a broadcast and cable television lineup, despite having grown almost exponentially since GLAAD‘s early days monitoring the mediascape for homophobia and all forms of anti-LGBT bigotry, that is replete with LGBT characters, personalities and issues portrayed or presented in realistic, often positive…
Even though the pastor of a church in Dayton, Ohio expressed concern that the burning of the church was an arson hate-crime, officials in Dayton are denying that was the case, citing a 36-year-old suspect’s stated motive for the crime. According to the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said suspect…
TAMPA, Fla. –The Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry and Log Cabin Republicans will be running an ad in Wednesday’s Tampa Tribune calling on the GOP to support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples. With The Republican National Conference gearing up for Mitt Romney’s address, the full-page color ad, features photos…
