Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) joined 13 other human rights groups in urging the Obama Administration to take additional action against Gambian leaders following the regime’s ongoing crackdown and persecution of LGBT citizens, and called on it to demand that the Gambian government provide more information about the health and safety of individuals who…
President Obama has expressed his hope that the U.S. Supreme Court make the “right decision” on the issue of same-sex marriage. Justin Snow reported in MetroWeekly that Obama said these remarks during an interview on Thursday with one of three YouTube creators at the White House. “My hope is that they go ahead and recognize…
SAN DIEGO — A transgender graduate student using the men’s locker room in the Aztec Recreation Center (ARC) gym at San Diego State University (SDSU) allegedly was told by ARC staff that “she” needed to leave the men’s locker room. Graduate student A. T. Furuya identifies as a genderqueer and transmasculine — transmasculine referring to…
Eleven women have told a jury about the consequences of their nude photos being posted online by the operator of a “revenge porn” Web site that demanded money in exchange for the pictures to be taken down. Twenty more women were expected to testify after the extortion and identity theft trial opened Jan. 16 against…
NEW YORK – Yesterday, in his State of the State address, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for an amendment to New York’s civil rights law to protect transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) praised Governor Cuomo’s call to action and called on the…
A California woman is suing FedEx, where her late wife worked for 26 years, for refusing to pay $400,000 in spousal benefits because it would not recognize their marriage. The Daily Kos reports that Lesly Taboada-Hall, who was a driver for the company, died of uterine cancer June 20, 2013. Six days later, the Supreme…
In a new telephone survey conducted Jan. 5-8, Gallup has revealed that a slight majority of Americans (53%) say they are satisfied with the acceptance of gays and lesbians in the U.S. This level is the same as last year but remains higher than those Gallup has measured over the past decade. Acceptance of gays…
KANSAS CITY – Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced that Michael Sam, who made history as America’s first openly-gay professional football player, will keynote the organization’s 2nd Annual Kansas City Equality Brunch Sunday, Feb. 15. “We are thrilled that Michael Sam will be keynoting our Kansas City event,” said Angela Cottrell, Kansas City member of…
It wasn’t supposed to begin like this. But exactly 14 months to the day after the Euromaidan protests, the Ukraine, unburdened by the heavy-handed influence of Russia, has seen a rise in homophobia and a willingness by the country’s relatively liberal gay community to squash equally revolutionary tactics for wider acceptance. In a thought-provoking piece…
Anderson Cooper has responded to right-wing evangelist Larry Tomczak’s Jan. 8 Christian Post Op-Ed titled, Are You Aware of the Avalanche of Gay Programming Assaulting Your Home? in The Ridiculist segment of his show. Tomczak asserts that we are “Being Bombarded” by gay programing and among the many reasons he cites how Hollywood is promoting…
