A high court in Russia has ruled against LGBT activists in Moscow sought to have that city’s legislative ban on anything that could be construed as propaganda promoting homosexuality to minors overturned. For the moment, it appears the next Moscow Pride event won’t be possible until 2112. Nikolai Alekseyev is a gay RussianLGBT-rights activist, who was arrested…
PHOENIX – As long lines formed at help centers and lawyers’ offices across America, Wednesday with thousands of young, undocumented immigrants applying for relief from deportation, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order directing state agencies to deny benefits – including driver’s licenses – to “Deferred Action” recipients. The Deferred Action program is one…
GREER, S.C. (CNN) – The Obama campaign have dismissed Mitt Romney’s revelation that he has paid no less than 13 percent in personal income taxes over the past ten years, saying, “Prove it!” “Mitt Romney today said that he did indeed ‘go back and look’ at his tax returns and that he never paid less…
Michael Leisner, the anti-gay marriage protestor who set fire to a box of Cheerios on the lawn in front of General Mills’ headquarters has died of a heart attack. Leisner’s protest, which went viral, was posted on YouTube Aug. 5 and shows him standing in front of the General Mills sign with box of Honey…
Photo: CNN A statement of condolence by 25 prominent LGBT leaders was issued jointly and released through GLAAD today after a shooting at the headquarters of the staunchly anti-LGBT rights activist group, Family Research Council (FRC). One man, a security guard, was wounded during a struggle with the alleged gunman, 28-year-old Floyd Corkins. Some news…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Police are investigating what prompted a man to walk in to the lobby of the Family Research Council, a conservative policy organization, on Wednesday morning and open fire, wounding a security guard. The guard, who was shot in the arm, helped wrestle the gunman to the ground, police said. The guard was…
Florida has elected the first openly LGBT candidate to the state legislature. David Richardson won a Democratic primary yesterday to represent the Miami-area District 113 in the Florida House of Representatives, and faces no GOP opponent this fall. Being the fourth largest state in the nation, Florida had been the largest state never to have…
According to Washington United for Marriage (WUM), a group working to defend the state’s equitable marriage law, announced support for its cause by REI, a seller of sporting goods, mountain-hiking and other outdoor equipment, which was founded by “a group of Pacific Northwest mountaineers in 1938,” has publicly endorsed marriage equality. Writing in a blog post, REI’s CEO…
NEW YORK – CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper’s recent coming out hit the headlines across the world. Now it seems Cooper’s relationship is coming under the spotlight for different reasons. The Daily Mail has revealed exclusively that Cooper’s boyfriend of three years, Ben Maisani, 39, was spotted kissing a dark-haired man in a park in…
Ji Wallace, an Australian gay Olympian, has publicly revealed that he is HIV positive. The reveal was in the form of a letter, sent to the news publication Star Observer after being inspired by a television interview of US diver Greg Louganis on CNN’s Piers Morgan. According to Wikipedia, Ji Wallace won several Australian national…
