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…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police have cancelled an annual gay rights festival, after Muslims called for it to be banned. The Seksualiti Merdeka (Sexuality Freedom) festival has been held in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, since 2008, but has suffered increasing criticism by politicians and religious leaders as it gains awareness. A senior police official…
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…
WASHINGTON – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has filed federal litigation, suing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, on behalf of current and former servicemembers seeking equal recognition, benefits and family support for equal sacrifice and service in the U.S. armed forces. The plaintiffs,…
Well it has happened again. Another starlet, I use that term loosely, has filed for divorce from her husband after a 72-day marriage. In 2004, pop starlet Britney Spears married in Las Vegas and filed for divorce 55 hours later. Later that year, Spears married Kevin Federline which also ended in divorce. Why does this…
Seventy major organizations including Google, Microsoft, Xerox, Time Warner Cable, New Balance, Aetna, Levi Strauss & Co., and more have banded together to file and amicus brief in Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ (GLAD) DOMA Challenge in the suit of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. The historical brief illuminates the negative impact that…
