Americans spend more than $45 billion on their pets every year. That’s not surprising since a pet is part of the family. However, that doesn’t mean you can forgo retirement savings or go into debt to care for the adorable little bundle of fur. Pets aren’t quite as costly as children, but food, vaccinations and…
(CNN) Massachusetts is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that the state must pay for the sex-change surgery of a transsexual prison inmate. “Following a thorough review of the decision, we believe the court failed to give due deference to the fact that the Department (of Correction) has and continues to provide adequate medical treatment to…
Released today, JK Rowling’s long-awaited new adult book The Casual Vacancy is firmly aimed at those in the grown-up world, with the writer’s pen dissecting social inequality, small-town politics and snobbery – with sex, abuse, lots of swearing and a gay subplot. Set in the fictional town of Pagford, in western England, it centers on a…
A Hong Kong billionaire has offered $65 million to any man who is able to woo and subsequently marry his lesbian daughter. Cecil Chao Sze-tsung made the offer following reports that his daughter Gigi had married her long-term girlfriend, Sean Eav, in a ceremony in France earlier this year. Chao, who has a reputation in…
A monthly television newsmagazine show that highlights LGBT issues on public TV will end in December. The company that makes “In the Life” is going out of business. Archives of its programs and material from them will be archived for online access at an undetermined point in the future. The interim executive director of In…
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is suing Public Advocate of the United States, a group based in Falls Church, Va., over the misappropriation of a photo showing a gay couple kissing. The photo, taken by Kristina Hill showed Brian Edwards and Tom Privitiere with the New York City skyline in the background. Public Advocate,…
LOS ANGELES (CNN) – The Boy Scouts of America released a study Wednesday that claims children were safer from sex abuse in the Scouts than when at home or school. The report was prepared by a psychiatric expert hired by the Scouts to review so-called “perversion files” kept by the organization from 1970 to 1991….
KGTV, 10News’ new poll of likely voters in the San Diego mayoral election reveals a more lopsided race than the same poll taken in August did, with the Sept. 25 poll placing Congressman Bob Filner ahead of City Councilman Carl DeMaio by a 12-point lead. According to the latest poll, Filner would win with 50…
Although the issue has already caused a transgender third-grader to be transferred from one school to another due to bullying, the Naushua School District in New Hampshire says it doesn’t need a district-wide policy on the subject of bullying of transgender students. “We don’t have a specific policy on transgender students, but we do have…
