130 major organizations urge Obama administration to rescind discriminatory Bush-era ‘Religious Freedom’ memo

WASHINGTON – Today 130 major religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations delivered a letter to President Obama urging him to review and reconsider a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel that has been used to permit taxpayer funded discrimination. The letter warns that the 2007 memo “reaches the erroneous and…

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Watch: Trailer for Britain’s first trans sitcom

BBC2 will air Britain’s first trans sitcom this fall. Boy Meets Girl was created and written by Elliott Kerrigan and Simon Carlyle, the Manchester-based comedy was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award – a BBC Writersroom talent search in partnership with Trans Comedy, which offered aspiring writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a…

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Desperate Duggars tout new reality show counseling sex abuse victims

The Duggars are pitching for a new reality show! The homophobic family, whose show, 19 Kids and Counting, was cancelled by TLC after eldest son Josh Duggar confessed to being a child abuser, are reportedly touting a reality show around with parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar counseling children who have been sexually abused! According…

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Tenor René Barbera to kick off San Diego Opera’s 2015-2016 season

SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera has announced that tenor René Barbera, who made his San Diego Opera debut this past April in the Company’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concerts, will be returning for a recital  Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Balboa Theatre as part of the Company’s 2015-2016 season. This recital marks…

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White House appoints first openly transgender official

WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) staff member Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been appointed as an outreach and recruitment director for Presidential Personnel in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Freedman-Gurspan is the first openly transgender official in history to serve in the White House. She previously served as NCTE’s Policy Advisor…

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