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NRO’s Dennis Prager: Heterosexual AIDS is an ‘entirely manufactured’ myth

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago12 years ago24 mins

Media Matters for America’s latest post highlights conservative columnist Dennis Prager’s claims that “heterosexual AIDS” is a crisis “entirely manufactured by the Left,” continuing his years-long campaign of peddling dangerous and inaccurate AIDS denialism. Prager’s July 1 syndicated column featured a defense of the Washington Redskins’ name. Prager accused the “American Left” of being preoccupied with “manufactured” controversies and crises, including “heterosexual…

Support for Miss. equality as ‘Religious Freedom Restoration Act’ takes effect

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago02 mins

There is strong support for equality in Mississippi despite the state’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” which took effect yesterday. Since January, eight cities have passed equality resolutions recognizing the dignity and worth of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. “This is proof that the people of Mississippi are further ahead than their leaders at…

World Congress of Families selects Salt Lake City for summit

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago03 mins

The World Congress of Families’ has announced that it will host its next annual summit in Salt Lake City, UT in the fall of 2015. In addition, the group is holding its traditional pre-summit planning meetings in Salt Lake City on October 22 and 23 of this year. Labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, The World…

Economist Lee Badgett battles homophobia with economic, not sociological, data

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago12 years ago03 mins

The myth that gay men and lesbian women are economically better off is so pervasive in society that it is largely taken for granted that they are. That they have larger disposable incomes, fewer children and are better-educated has become a staple of gay lore. But economist Lee Badgett has spent the better part of…

Compelling new research data leads to the nation’s first substance abuse treatment program tailored for LGBTQ (VIDEO)

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago02 mins

http://youtu.be/-SUxOeFQ7IM PORTLAND, Ore. — Armed with compelling new data from the Butler Center for Research, the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation’s leading addiction treatment provider, has developed an innovative treatment model specifically for the millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people who seek lifelong freedom from substance abuse. The new program sets a new standard…

President Obama announces executive order banning gender identity discrimination for federal employees

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago03 mins

WASHINGTON – Last night at the White House LGBT Pride Reception, President Obama announced he would be issuing an executive order to protect transgender federal employees from workplace discrimination. Once issued, it would expand upon an executive order from President Bill Clinton, which banned workplace discrimination among federal employees on the basis of sexual orientation. …

Therese M. Stewart poised to become the first out lesbian justice on the California Court of Appeal

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago03 mins

SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has announced that he has appointed San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese M. Stewart to serve as a justice on the California Court of Appeal, on the First District Court’s Division Two. The appointment, made during San Francisco’s LGBT Pride weekend, marks an appropriately historic milestone for California’s judiciary as well as its LGBT community: Stewart will…

Today: 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago12 years ago03 mins

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, arguably the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Gays and lesbians in the United States saw a very different world in the late 1960s. Most lived their lives in…

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist files legal brief in support of marriage equality

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago12 years ago03 mins

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist has filed an amicus brief today in support of the marriage equality lawsuit Pareto v. Ruvin, which is set for a hearing July 2 before Judge Sarah Zabel in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami. Judge Zabel will hear from attorneys who filed a lawsuit in January on behalf of…

TODAY: National HIV Testing Day — ‘Take the Test, Take Control’

Steve Lee, Editor12 years ago12 years ago02 mins

National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is an annual campaign to encourage people of all ages to “Take the Test, Take Control.” In the United States, nearly 1.1 million people are living with HIV, and almost one in six don’t know they are infected. Getting tested is the first step to finding out if you have HIV….

HRC releases 2018 Buyer’s Guide just in time for holiday shopping season

LGBT Congressional Staff Association joins call for action to address sexual harassment

Jeff Sessions joins anti-LGBTQ Heritage Foundation in a closed door meeting

Fourth annual Truth Awards to honor and recognize African Americans in the LGBTQ community

Sen. Toni Atkins to become first woman to lead California Senate

HRC joins allies to demand a clean DREAM Act

Sen. Tammy Baldwin honored with Jose Julio Sarria Civil Rights Award

The Studio Door’s latest exhibition to focus on local emerging and professional artists

Civil and Human Rights Coalition speaks out on US failure to address misconduct by law enforcement officers

Australian Parliament legalizes marriage equality

NRO’s Dennis Prager: Heterosexual AIDS is an ‘entirely manufactured’ myth

Support for Miss. equality as ‘Religious Freedom Restoration Act’ takes effect

World Congress of Families selects Salt Lake City for summit

Economist Lee Badgett battles homophobia with economic, not sociological, data

Compelling new research data leads to the nation’s first substance abuse treatment program tailored for LGBTQ (VIDEO)

President Obama announces executive order banning gender identity discrimination for federal employees

Therese M. Stewart poised to become the first out lesbian justice on the California Court of Appeal

Today: 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist files legal brief in support of marriage equality

TODAY: National HIV Testing Day — ‘Take the Test, Take Control’