ARLINGTON, Texas – A group of teens who police believe targeted gays and others by spray-painting slurs and vulgar messages on vehicles and homes this month, have been identified, thanks to home surveillance cameras that caught them in the act, authorities said last week. The Star-Telegram reported that an 18-year-old Fort Worth man has been…
Moline, Ill. (CNN) – An Illinois same-sex couple says they were banned from possibly renting a Moline, Ill. reception hall last week, because they are gay. The manager of the University Club in downtown Moline told WQAD-TV that she refused to let the couple see or rent the space for a reception because of her…
Attorneys for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after it ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional the Washington Blade is reporting. Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), told the news source that House Republicans notified the Democratic leadership counsel that an appeal was filed…
ATLANTA (CNN) — Gert McMullin scurries about a cluttered storage space, keeping track of the thousands of pieces of folded fabric plucked off metal shelves and packed into blue cardboard containers for their journey to the nation’s capital. The cloth panels are part of a quilt that has been her life these 25 years, since…
WASHINGTON – A new report on gay and lesbian parenting, which purports to show the “very harmful” affects of having gay and lesbian parents, has been described as flawed, misleading, scientifically unsound and disparaging to lesbian and gay parents by organizations that protect and advance the freedoms and equality of LGBT Americans. The paper, New…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a groundbreaking study of LGBT-identified young people and a corollary study of straight teens that shows tremendous disparities between the two groups. With more than 10,000 respondents ages 13-17, Growing Up LGBT in America is the largest known survey of LGBT teens. Among the report’s key…
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (CNN) — I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment — the one abolishing slavery — was placed on the ballot back in 1865. I wonder if Hillary Clinton would be at home baking cookies instead of serving as secretary of state…
(CNN) — A Canadian porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal left Germany on Monday and was headed back to Canada, government officials said. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was aboard a Canadian military plane in police custody, Rob Nicholson, Canada’s minister of justice, and Vic Toews, minister of public safety,…
LOS ANGELES (CNN) – While he predicted Republicans would adopt a bumper sticker slogan of “It’s Obama’s fault” this election year, President Barack Obama maintained he was “very proud” of his work in the past three and a half years. “They’re going to say, ‘Well you know what, you’re still not satisfied, then it’s Obama’s…
NEW YORK – The group of rabbinic Conservatives, which had already affirmed that same-sex marriages have “the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages” have now established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies. JTA reports that the landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement’s…
