Miami-Dade County became the first place in Florida to allow same-sex couples to marry on Monday, half a day before a gay-marriage ban that has been ruled unconstitutional is lifted in the rest of the state, reports the Miami Herald. Weddings began around 1:30 p.m. ET, less than three hours after lifted the legal stay…
A federal judge’s stay on a ruling overturning Florida’s ban on marriage equality expires at the end of the day today, making the Sunshine State the latest where same-sex couples can legally marry. With Florida, over 216 million Americans – 70 percent of the country – live in a state with marriage equality. Since this…
A fast growing Change.org petition to enact ‘Leelah’s Law’ to ban transgender conversion therapy, in honor of transgender teen Leela Alcorn has reached more than 280,000 signatures. The 17-year-old teenager from Ohio whose suicide note blamed gay conversion therapy for her death, and called on others to “fix society” to prevent more transgender suicides. One…
CBS Films has said it will ‘look into’ why all reference to homosexuality was removed from the U.S. DVD release of the movie Pride, reports Pink News. The U.S. DVD cover had no references to homosexuality. The original text described the main characters in the movie as a ‘London-based group of gay and lesbian activists.’…
Denee Mallon, 74-year-old transgender woman, has become the first person to receive gender reassignment surgery on a government Medicare plan. From her hospital bed in Chicago Mallon said, “Here I am, finally, after all these years. It happened.” NBC News reported that her operation will be one of the first paid for by Medicare after…
Members and allies of the transgender community held a vigil in Trafalgar Square, London Saturday afternoon, in memory of Leelah Alcorn, the transgender teen who took her own life last week, reports Pink News. In her heartbreaking suicide note Leelah Alcorn noted a life of pain and rejection, including by her Christian parents who refused to…
Madonna sparked outrage Friday after her Twitter account posted images of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela Photoshopped onto her Rebel Heart album cover, reports The Huffington Post. Below is the album cover: Here’s Madonna’s Tweet with Nelson Mandela: And the Tweet with MLK: Following the tweets, fans and journalists posted things like “STOP,”…
The cover for the U.S. DVD release of the movie Pride has removed all mention of homosexuality, reports Pink News. The U.S. DVD cover has removed all references to homosexuality. The original text described the main characters in the movie as a ‘London-based group of gay and lesbian activists.’ This has been changed to ‘London-based…
The Dominican Republic has refused to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in the country, stating, “our legislation does not recognize this type of marriage,”reports AP. Earlier the British embassy had tweeted that a Dominican man and his British partner had exchanged vows in its Santo Domingo offices. Earlier in the year the British government had…
When Josh Alcorn voiced a desire to live as a girl, the Ohio teenager’s parents said they wouldn’t stand for that. “We don’t support that, religiously,” Alcorn’s mother told CNN on Wednesday, her voice breaking. “But we told him that we loved him unconditionally. We loved him no matter what. I loved my son. People…
