Not long after Carly Fiorina announced her presidential bid the Web site CarlyFiorina.org appeared. That’s not so strange you may think, except that Carly Fiorina didn’t register it! The site which seemed to be registered in December uses the platform to criticize her time as CEO of Hewlett Packard. “Carly Fiorina failed to register this…
Lily Rubenstein came out to her family as transgender when she was 12. The Southern California native, now 15, told Fox 11 Los Angeles that she hopes to inspire others struggling with their identity by speaking publicly. “I’m proud to be able to represent the trans community and be able to let people know that…
Today the World Congress of Families (WCF) announced it had appointed Janice Shaw Crouse as the executive director of their upcoming WCF IX conference in Salt Lake City. Under the leadership of Crouse, who is notoriously anti-LGBT, thousands of anti-LGBT and anti-choice activists will descend on Salt Lake City in October 2015. The Human Rights…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced his bid today for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Huckabee, who is popular with the religious right, shared the news of his candidacy with supporters in his hometown of Hope, 113 miles southwest of Little Rock. “I was raised to believe that where a person started doesn’t mean that’s…
As the 2016 campaign gets going, three outspoken opponents of same-sex marriage will hit the trail in Michigan, even as new polling shows that Michigan voters strongly support marriage equality. The Detroit Free Press reported recently that Rand Paul, Ben Carson and Scott Walker will all be hosting campaign events in Michigan today. Meanwhile, new…
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military spouses and their families, announced that Representative Dina Titus (D-NV) will be honored at the 2nd Annual AMPA National Gala – the nation’s biggest LGBT military event of the year – next Saturday, May…
Samantha Allen over at DailyBeast.com asks, and quite possibly answers, why bisexual women have significantly higher rates of smoking marijuana than their straight or lesbian peers. According to Allen and the 2000 National Alcohol Survey, “nearly 38 percent of bisexual women reported marijuana use in the last year compared to only 5 percent of straight…
Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement, CA Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA), GetEQUAL, Juntos, Orange County Immigrant Youth United (OCIYU), Arizona-Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (AZ-QUIP), Arcoiris Liberation Team, the Transgender Law Center (TLC), and the TransLatin@ Coalition have called for Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) and the Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) immediately release all LGBTQ-identified…
SACRAMENTO – The Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee voted Thursday with bi-partisan support to pass Assemblymember David Chiu’s Assembly Bill 959, a bill that would move California public policy closer towards meeting the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities. “Excluding LGBT communities from statewide collected data keeps these individuals and…
In a blog post this week, the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI) endorsed nationwide marriage equality in support of thousands of youth in need of foster or adoptive parents, writes Hayley Miller on hrc.com. April Dinwoodie and Kimberly Paglino authored the post, titled, “In Good Conscience,” and outlined the significant positive impact nationwide marriage equality could have…
