WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner has again offered a false and factually inaccurate explanation for why he won’t support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) – which passed the Senate one week ago with bipartisan support from 10 Republicans. Boehner re-iterated his opposition to the legislation that would simply protect hardworking lesbian, gay, bisexual and…
SEATTLE, — Mayor Keith McGlashan of Shoreline, Wash. was today elected 2014 president of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Local Officials (GLBTLO) constituency group during the group’s business meeting at the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Congress of Cities & Exposition in Seattle, Wash. Other officers serving on the GLBTLO Board of Directors include: 1st Vice President: LaWanna Mayfield, councilmember, Charlotte…
http://youtu.be/XLUQP-dkH3E When anchors at Detroit’s NBC affiliate, WDIV, cut to a live scene of a fire Wednesday morning they got a hotter reception than they expected. Reporter Lauren Podell didn’t realize she had a hot mic or that the anchors were cutting to her live … watch!
Media Matters for America’s latest post reveals Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly continued a pattern of transphobic commentary when he said that bringing a 12-year old boy to Hooters was comparable to allowing transgender students to use appropriate locker rooms or restrooms — a right that O’Reilly believes will be exploited by mischievous adolescents who want to spy on…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has demanded that the La Feria Independent School District allow Jeydon Loredo, a transgender student and senior at La Feria High School, to appear in his high school yearbook wearing a tuxedo or risk a federal lawsuit against the Texas school district. The demand was made…
NEW ORLEANS — King of Condoms, a multi-tiered IRB-approved study conducted by investigators from the University of Kentucky, in association with ProofPilot, will launch today in New Orleans. The King of Condoms campaign is both a social media marketing program and a street-based education program designed to protect young African American men who have sex with…
From Equality Matters comes their latest post on the anti-LGBT extremists behind the campaign to repeal the California law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Privacy for All Students, a coalition seeking to overturn a new law ensuring proper facilities access for transgender students in California, recently claimed that it has gathered enough…
Today the Hawaii state Senate passed marriage equality legislation, putting the Aloha State on track to become the next state where gay and lesbian couples can legally marry. The legislation now heads to the desk of Gov. Neil Abercrombie for signature. Sponsored by state Sen. Brickwood Galuteria in the state Senate and under the leadership of…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) called on Speaker John Boehner to quickly bring the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which recently passed the Senate in a bipartisan fashion, to the floor of the U.S. House for an up or down vote. The legislation would bar discrimination against LGBT Americans in the workplace. Casey,…
SAN FRANCISCO – Tuesday, Nov. 19 the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee will host a community forum regarding military recruiter participation in the annual Pride Celebration. The forum will take place at the Metropolitan Community Church, at 150 Eureka Street in San Francisco. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the forum will begin at 7 p.m. The…
