WASHINGTON – Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin has written to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki urging him to apply a broad interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor, to ensure recognition of veterans’ same-sex spouses regardless of where they live. After last year’s Windsor ruling invalidating Section 3 of…
SAN DIEGO — Equality Professionals Network (EPN), a group that represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) business professionals and their Allies, will hold their Second Annual LGBT & Allies Career Event on Monday, May 12, 2014, 5:00-8:30 p.m., at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa at 3999 Mission Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92109 on…
While discussing an effort to roll back a transgender non-discrimination law in Maryland, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow called out the right-wing “myth” about sexual predators entering trans-inclusive bathrooms, reports Media Matters for America. On April 29, a conservative group in Maryland launched an effort calling for a referendum to repeal the recently enacted Fairness for All…
WASHINGTON — Following Brunei’s decision this week to advance a series of penal code reforms that will include stoning as a possible punishment for relations between its LGBT citizens, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sent letters today to the leadership of several organizations that currently plan to host events at American hotels owned by the…
National same-sex marriage opponent and the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) poster child Maggie Gallagher sounded a defeatist note in her latest blog entry entitled, “Cooper, Mozilla, Firefox,” reports Carolyn Lochhead, the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. She writes, “Maggie Gallagher, a founder and former president of the National Organization for Marriage, a…
Brunei Darussalam — The Sultan of Brunei of has decreed into law the strict Islamic Sharia penal code that will eventually lead to death by stoning for crimes of a sexual nature, including those of same-sex relations, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “I place my faith in and am grateful to Allah the almighty to announce that tomorrow…
LOS ANGELES — Out Traveler (www.outtraveler.com), has partnered with Gay Europe, Inside & OUT, a collaboration of gay-friendly destinations redefining gay travel to Europe, for The Out Traveler Ambassador Contest Presented by Gay Europe, Inside & OUT. The contest will run from May 12 to May 18 . One lucky reader will win a nine-day…
Dan Haseltine, the lead singer for the hugely popular Christian rock band Jars of Clay, is under assault by Christians for his pro-gay Tweets, reports ChristianToday.com. In a series of short posts on Twitter last week, the Grammy Award-winning singer, having just watched 12 Years a Slave, noted that, “The treatment of people as less…
According to a press release from Assemblywoman Susan A. Bonilla’s office, a measure, AB 2501, was approved yesterday by the Assembly Public Safety committee. This bill ensures that criminal defendants cannot use the so-called “panic defense” claim in an attempt to lower a charge from murder to manslaughter, or to escape conviction all together. “It…
Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is planning to promote an amendment to the Inheritance Law that would allow same-sex partners to be each others’ heirs when the Knesset reconvenes for its summer session May 11, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “Love is love, and a family is a family, and it’s inconceivable that the law allows for institutional…
