Flight attendants upset as Jennifer Aniston becomes brand ambassador for homophobic airline

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) is upset over Jennifer Aniston’s decision to become a brand ambassador for Emirates, the biggest airline in the Middle East. It’s believed that she has already shot an ad for the company in a deal rumored to be worth $5million for the Friends actress, reports Gay Star News….

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Meet the gay basketball player removed from his Kentucky high school’s yearbook (VIDEO)

Today, YouTube content creator Raymond Braun spoke with Dalton Maldonado about his recent exclusion from his high school yearbook in rural Kentucky for being gay. Dalton attends Betsy Layne High School where he’ll be starting as senior point guard for the boys’ basketball team this coming year.  Dalton was intentionally excluded from the yearbook spread…

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Equality Florida Institute heads back to court on behalf of LGBT families

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Just days ago, Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello—the first same-sex  couple to be married in Florida—celebrated the birth of their twin son and daughter. But the couple’s joy was soon mixed with fear and frustration when the hospital denied Cathy the right to add her name to the children’s birth certificates. Almost a year…

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Kentucky county clerk violates federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses

Despite a ruling from a federal judge that requires a Kentucky county clerk to process marriage licenses for all couples, this morning Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis violated that order by refusing to process a same-sex marriage license. Zack Ford writes on Think Progress Davis refused to have her name on same-sex couples’ marriage licenses…

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International Transgender Conference anticipates 1,000 participants

SEATTLE, Wa. — Gender Odyssey, an international conference focused on the needs and interests of transgender and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people, will be held in Seattle, WA Aug. 19 – 23. The conference is expecting approximately 1,000  diverse set of participants, from practitioners to activists to families to trans and GNC individuals of all ages. This…

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Kristin Beck slams Huckabee with tweet: ‘I am twice the man that you could ever be’

Mike Huckabee is well-known for his transphobic remarks. In last week’s Republican debate Huckabee said that the military doesn’t need to accept transgender people and that the military is not up for some “social experiment.” On hearing Huckabee’s comments, transgender congressional candidate and former Navy Seal Kristin Beck was quick to respond with a tweet…

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Kentucky high school omits gay basketball player from yearbook tribute page

An openly gay high school basketball player has been omitted from a yearbook tribute to the team. Outsports reported that Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky this year had a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the boys basketball team except Dalton Maldonado, the team’s starting point guard who came out…

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Mexican Supreme Court rules adoption ban on same-sex couples unconstitutional

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that prohibiting same-gender couples from adopting children was unconstitutional. Telesurtv.net reported that a Mexican law prohibiting civil unions that bans both heterosexual or homosexual couples from adopting minors was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on the basis that the union is recognized as…

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