MARYLAND – Maryland’s House of Delegates has ended their gay marriage debate by rejecting four amendments. As reported by the Washington Post, the House narrowly rejected a bill that would have made gay marriage legal, only after voters rejected a ballot measure to ban gay marriages in the state constitution. The Maryland House also rejected,…
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner says the House counsel will defend the federal ban on gay marriage, now that the Obama administration won’t. A five-member panel appointed by Boehner voted 3-2 on party lines to defend the law. Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Obama administration will no longer defend Defense of…
NEW ORLEANS – Reverend Grant Storms, an anti-gay Christian fundamentalist preacher from New Orleans, has been arrested for public masturbation near a playground in a public park. Storm said he was urinating in a bottle on his lunch break, but two witnesses say they saw him masturbating. Police reports stated the preacher confessed, but Storms…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The relationship with the LGBT community and the black church has never been easy. In fact, it’s become a little violent at times and isolating for many. But now some are trying to make amends. Recently a meeting took place in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fort Washington, Md. where several ministers…
SAN FRANCISCO – The first GLBT History Museum in the U.S., which opened in mid-January 2011 in San Francisco’s Castro District, has drawn extraordinary media attention from across the United States and around the world, according to a report released by the museum a month after its debut. Tens of thousands of newspapers, magazines, television…
ILLINOIS – A federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling allowing high school students to display messages critical of homosexuality. Neuqua Valley High School had allowed students to participate in a “Day of Silence” to protest against LGBT harassment. The day after, student Heidi Zamecnik wore a T-shirt that read, “Be Happy, Not Gay.”…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to allow The Westboro Baptist Church to make anti-gay protests at military funerals, with a majority vote of 8-1. The court found that the church members should be allowed to picket funerals by relying on their First Amendment rights to free speech. The court declared…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democratic congressman Jerrold Nadler is to re-introduce a bill to overturn the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act this week. After the Obama administration said last week it would no longer defend the law, Nadler, a representative for New York, is calling on other politicians to support his Respect for Marriage Act. Last…
OKLAHOMA – The head of an Oklahoma LGBT center has been charged with one count of forcible sodomy and two counts of making lewd proposals to a child. Nathan Bowen, 32, is the president of the Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays community center in Enid, Oklahoma. Investigators say Bowen admitted he had…
MINNESOTA – After months of national protests from some of the largest LGBT organizations, it was Lady Gaga that finally convinced Target to change how it determines which organizations receive its charitable donations. Target, which has 1,743 stores across the country, donated $150,000 of corporate funds to support political action group, Minnesota Forward, who had…
