View More: Travel News|Live News|More News Videos A new directive by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued last week means the provision to opt-out of full body scanners is no longer a guarantee when going through security screening at airports in the U.S. The Advocate reports that at the discretion of TSA agents, some transgender…
Six candidates for president have signed a pledge supporting the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). FADA is a piece of legislation that would enshrine discrimination into law, prohibiting the federal government from stepping in when people or businesses discriminate because they believe “marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and…
Why do people use the word ‘gay’ in a derogatory way? Filmmaker Amy Ashenden traveled around the south east of England to find out why some people have started to say ‘eurgh that’s gay’. Is it homophobic or has language evolved? Ashenden wrote in the Guardian, “I decided to make a documentary exploring how this…
Lawmakers in Greece legalized same-sex civil unions Tuesday voting 193 in favor versus 56 against. The measure passed despite opposition from the Church and a rebellion by some right-wing members of the ruling coalition, reported Politico. “The relationship between two people is about love, and this bill recognizes the possibility for two people to live…
Lesbian Air Force Major and DADT repeal advocate Adrianna Vorderbruggen has been killed in action in Afghanistan. Maj. Vorderbruggen was one of six American service members killed in Monday’s suicide attack in Bagram when a motorcycle bomb detonated, reports The Advocate. LGBT service member group Military Partners and Family Coalition confirmed Vorderbruggen’s death with a…
Monday, the New York City Commission on Human Rights released new guidance that makes clear what constitutes gender identity and gender expression discrimination under the NYC Human Rights Law, making it one of the strongest in the nation in protecting the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. Although discrimination based on gender identity and…
The state government of Nayarit, Mexico has legalized same-sex marriage, joining Quintana Roo, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Guerrero, the city of Santiago de Querétaro and the Federal District of Mexico City in the march toward nationwide marriage equality in Mexico. The state congress passed an amendment to the civil code Dec. 17 by 26 votes to one,…
LOS ANGELES — A coalition of California civil rights and LGBT organizations announced Monday that supporters of a proposed anti-transgender ballot initiative announced that they have failed to submit the signatures necessary to qualify it for the November 2016 ballot. “Privacy for All”, the group behind the failed measure, needed to submit 365,880 valid signatures to the California Secretary of State’s…
Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had finalized their new policy that will allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood only if they haven’t had sex or sexual contact with other men in a year. LGBT advocacy groups have been quick to criticize the new guidelines saying that they do…
Slovenia, considered to be one of the most liberal countries in Eastern Europe has rejected marriage equality. In a referendum on Sunday only 36.5 percent voted for a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry; 63.5 percent opposed it, reported The Washington Post. Conservative groups — backed by the Catholic Church — had pushed the country’s government…
