CHICAGO — Greeting card company Hallmark’s recent snafu replacing the word ‘gay’ with the word ‘fun’ on a holiday sweater ornament has prompted Chicago-based Rocco Shirts to produce three holiday sweatshirts, featuring the traditional ‘gay’ apparel as well as sweatshirts with ‘straight’ and ‘bi’. The original Christmas Carol of course featured the words “Don we now our gay…
Media Matters for America latest post reveals Fox News attempting to paint Gov. Chris Christie as a moderate on social issues, falsely claiming that he had refused to veto legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage in New Jersey. On the Nov. 10 edition of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron discussed Gov. Christie’s political reputation among…
SACRAMENTO – Following conservative groups obtaining the necessary number of signatures to place a referendum on the 2014 ballot for Assembly Bill 1266, which will allow transgender students in public schools to have access to sports teams and school facilities such as restrooms with respect to their gender identity, California State Assembly Speaker John A….
NEW YORK – According to this special study, LGBT investors reported feeling more optimistic than other investors about the country’s economic outlook and their own personal finances following the U.S. Supreme court ruling overthrowing the federal Defense of Marriage Law (DOMA). This optimistic outlook is visible in both LGBT investors’ long-term perspective (67 percent v….
Alan van Capelle was honored today by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the “Forward 50,” – the newspaper’s annual much-watched list of notable and newsworthy American Jews – in acknowledgment of his career-long activism for social justice and his rising profile in national progressive politics. As the CEO of Bend the Arc: A…
In their latest report Media Matters of America reveals how in its latest effort to downplay the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Fox News spent a mere 19 seconds covering its historic passage by the Senate Nov. 7. Fox News Mostly Ignored Senate Passage Of ENDA. According to an Equality Matters analysis, Fox News spent 19 seconds reporting the bill’s…
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Filling a long-overdue need to provide the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community more retirement options, Fountaingrove Lodge, the nation’s first full-service LGBT retirement community to offer luxury living and continuing care services, will officially open in less than two weeks. Wednesday, Nov. 20 regional elected officials and LGBT leaders…
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate voted 64 to 32 to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) for the first time in the legislation’s two-decade history. All Senate Democrats joined 10 Senate Republicans to approve the bill. Following passage of the act President Barack Obama issued the following statement: “For more than two centuries, the…
From Media Matters for America comes their latest post on The Daily Caller lamenting that gay people have become “totally boring” now that they’ve secured some basic legal rights. The Daily Caller lamented that gay people have become “totally boring” now that they’ve secured some basic legal rights and no longer have to live in fear…
WASHINGTON – Signaling a new day for LGBT equality in Virginia, Democrat Gov-elect Terry McAuliffe said in his first press conference that his first executive order will be to ban discrimination against LGBT state employees. Last night McAuliffe defeated vehemently anti-LGBT Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race. Former governors Mark Warner…
