Despite a ruling from a federal judge that requires a Kentucky county clerk to process marriage licenses for all couples, this morning Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis violated that order by refusing to process a same-sex marriage license. Zack Ford writes on Think Progress Davis refused to have her name on same-sex couples’ marriage licenses…
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…
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…
WASHINGTON – Four new major American companies have become the latest to endorse the Equality Act, federal legislation that would establish full, federal equality for all LGBT Americans. In doing so, these leading companies – IBM, Oracle, Orbitz, and Symantec – made clear that they believe all LGBT Americans should have the protections from discrimination…
Today, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the fiercely anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage (NOM) must release a donor list in connection with the state’s marriage referendum campaign in 2009. The Bangor Daily News reported that NOM has already paid a record-breaking fine of $50,250 to the Maine Ethics Commission and registered as a ballot…
Shira Banki, a 16-year-old girl who was injured during last week’s attack on Jerusalem Pride, died on Sunday. Banki was marching to support her LGBT friends when a right-wing extremist, Yishai Schlissel, breached the perimeter of the parade and attacked those around him with a knife. Though there were police present throughout the parade, six…
Late on Thursday six people were stabbed while participating in an LGBT Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The perpetrator, Yishai Schlissel, is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man who also stabbed victims at the same event in 2005. Schlissel was just released for that crime last month after serving ten years in prison. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly…
Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order on Implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States for 2015-2020. The Ececutive Order is reproduced below: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure improved health outcomes for Americans…
This morning, Microsoft announced its support for The Equality Act, a comprehensive federal LGBT non-discrimination legislation. “To create technology that empowers the world, we need to reflect the diversity of the world,” Microsoft said in a statement. “Supporting diversity, inclusiveness and equal treatment is not just good for business, it is also the right thing…
Today, the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) ratified a resolution that removed the national restriction on openly gay adult leaders and employees. Of those present and voting, 79 percent voted in favor of the resolution. The resolution was recommended for ratification by the Executive Committee earlier this month. The resolution…
