MENLO PARK, Calif. (CNN) – Last weekend, Facebook, the 900-million-person social network, updated its marriage icons to include one for men who marry men and one for women who marry women. The changes took place automatically for many people. James Lazar, a 38-year-old Chicago man who is married to a man, updated his status because…
PARIS – France’s prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault has told parliament that gay couples will be permitted to marry and adopt children in 2013.
LONDON – The U.K. deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has voiced personal support for religious same-sex marriage rights. In an interview to mark last week’s World Pride festival in London, Clegg said churches should not be prevented from conducting same-sex weddings if they wished. Clegg told the London Evening Standard: “This is a personal view…
Seniors view with wonder the Gay America of today: schools with gay/lesbian clubs; mainstream businesses that openly court us; books which once got you arrested are everywhere; marriage and military service are now possible. Proud to be an American? You bet. Sad to say, things are still not perfect and bigots, like the poor, will…
During the June 28 episode of ABC’s “The View” morning talk show, co-host Joy Behar referenced homosexuality as a choice. Given Behar’s history as having been an advocate against the notion that being gay (or lesbian or bisexual or trans) is a choice, members of LGBT Weekly’s editorial staff were confident that she had simply misspoken. The incident…
WASHINGTON, DC – More than 40,000 people have joined an explosive campaign on Change.org calling on Carilion Clinic, owners of the Roanoke Athletic Club in Virginia, to allow children with gay parents to swim in the pool. Mark Lynn Ferguson, a Roanoke native, launched a campaign on Change.org when he saw a local news story…
The Homosexual Information Center (HIC), one of the oldest gay and lesbian non-profit organizations in the nation, is seeking funds to cover basic operational expenses to process and archive rare newsletters, clippings and correspondence – some dating back to the early 1950s – and make them publicly accessible through California State University Northridge, the Center…
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNN) – A 14-year-old-boy has claimed that he was bullied to the point of blindness. Kardin Ulysse said the bullying, which included the yelling of anti-gay slurs, happened to him at his school, Junior High School 78 in Bergen Beach. “I can’t see from my right eye,” Ulysse said in his attorney’s office…
ARLINGTON, Texas – A group of teens who police believe targeted gays and others by spray-painting slurs and vulgar messages on vehicles and homes this month, have been identified, thanks to home surveillance cameras that caught them in the act, authorities said last week. The Star-Telegram reported that an 18-year-old Fort Worth man has been…
Most folk who aren’t part of the T of the LGBT community aren’t aware of the divides between some of those who identify as transsexual, but not as transgender, and those who identify as both transsexual and transgender. To me, the divide seems to be about whether or not one embraces diversity as a value…
