WASHINGTON – During a recent major address on HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Ellen DeGeneres has been named as a special envoy for global AIDS awareness. In this role, DeGeneres will use her celebrity platform to raise awareness about the global fight against AIDS. In…
In an ideal world the repeal of DADT would have been enough to right the societal wrongs that had forced gays and lesbians in the military to live clandestine lives, lying about their sexuality for fear of being drummed out of the service if their true feelings were ever revealed; but that wasn’t the case…
ACCRA, Ghana – Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills has reacted angrily to the U.K.’s threat to cut aid if the country refuses to legalize homosexuality. According to the Ghana News Agency President Mills stated categorically that he as the head of state will not support any attempt to encourage homosexuality in Ghana. “I as president…
“First, it is important to understand that homosexuality is not innate and unchangeable. Research has NOT proved that homosexuality is genetic,” begins the article written by Alan Osmond. Known for his contributions to the Osmond Family singing group, Osmond has taken to the internet – specifically a website owned by the Church of Latter Day…
SAN ANTONIO – A University of Texas San Antonio student, badly assaulted by two men over the Halloween weekend, has claimed that it was solely because she was gay and wants police to treat the assault as a hate crime. KENS 5, San Antonio reported that Kristen Cooper was waiting for a ride home after…
ROME, Ga. – Shorter University has come under fire for adopting new faith statements that require all employees to, among other things, reject homosexuality. The new policy, described as a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” that all employees are required to sign states in point B.3, “I reject as acceptable all sexual activity not in agreement with…
BOSTON – Seventy businesses and organizations have filed a brief in federal court highlighting the harms to American companies caused by the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The amicus curiae brief – signed by a wide diversity of corporations from tech giants Microsoft and Google to consumer brands Nike and Starbucks – supports the…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a new video featuring civil rights pioneer and NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond as part of their Americans for Marriage Equality public-education campaign. “There are few who have so dramatically changed this country for the better like Dr. Julian Bond,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “We…
A Jan. 9, 2012 trial date was set Oct. 24 for a man suspected of fatally beating Vance Shazier, 67, a member of the Metropolitan Community Church, who was much loved by fellow congregants. Thomas Lee Daniel, 40, appeared before San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn for trial last week, but his attorney requested…
WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been called out for using deceitful tactics in New Hampshire. NOM is using a photograph from an Obama campaign event in St. Louis to mislead New Hampshire voters into believing they have more supporters than they actually do. The news was broken by Jeremy Hooper on…
