ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A report to be fully released in December aims to examine discrimination against LGBT people in Anchorage, Alaska. In August 2009, the Anchorage Assembly had passed an ordinance by a vote of 7-4 that would ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity in issues of housing and employment….
ROME – Amid mixed reactions, Italian fashion brand Benetton has released its new advertising campaign. The Washington Post reported the campaign, which depicts images of various world leaders kissing each other, from President Barack Obama kissing China’s Hu Jintao to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, was unveiled last week on…
Smurfs star Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, actor turned chef David Burtka, have denied they are the perfect role models for a gay couple. Speaking to E!Online at the recent 40th anniversary gala of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Harris said, “We’re super happy to lead by example, but even to define ourselves…
Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall is featured in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the web ad, Hall confidently explains, “Over time, equality wins – that’s the beauty of America.” Hall is a playwright and performer from Memphis, Tenn. and is perhaps…
If I had to guess where most of us might be on Friday, Nov. 25, here’s where I’d begin: One: With family in one of those freezing cold states east of California. Two: Stuck at the airport. Three: Lying on the sofa in a tryptophan stupor, or Four: Beating other shoppers away with a stick…
Danielle Orna, 17, died suddenly Thursday though details of the teen’s death have not been released by Essex County Police. Orna was the President of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Nutley High School in Nutley, N.J. Police were unable to revive the teen when they arrived at 11 p.m. on report of an “unresponsive female,” the…
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has now banned the words “lesbian,” “homosexual,” “fairy,” and “condom” among 1,600 other words the country has deemed “pornographic or offensive to Islam.” “PTA hereby intimates all individual users of telecom services that are involved in such activity to refrain from such practices that involve generation of spamming,” the company…
Brandon McInerney, an Oxnard teen who shot gay classmate Larry King after he said the boy was flirting with him, has accepted a plea deal and will spend the next 21 years in prison. “Larry had a complicated life, but he did not deserve to be murdered,” Greg King, father to Larry, told the Los…
The Parents Television Council (PTC) says Fox’s hit show ‘Glee’ crossed the line by airing the episode “The First Time” which depicts two young couples having sex for the first time. The organization says it has nothing to do with the fact that one couple is gay, rather, it’s the age of the characters that…
Police say the man suspected of shooting a transgender woman Thursday in Hollywood may have also been the same man who robbed and shot fire toward another transgender victim in West Hollywood just 45 minutes after the heinous murder. Cassidy Nathan Vickers, 32, died Thursday from gunshot wounds before police arrived on scene. She was…
