(CNN) — The eyes of the country will be upon Texas on Thursday. That’s where 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts of America’s national council are expected to vote on whether to end the 103-year-old group’s outright ban on gay youths. The outcome, to be announced late afternoon, follows months of intense debate among interest…
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced the resignation of President Herndon Graddick. Under Graddick’s tenure, GLAAD began campaigns including a national call for the Boy Scouts of America to end their ban on gay scouts and scout leaders. The organization also announced a continuation…
NEW YORK — The legendary Liza Minnelli was the latest celebrity to support the acclaimed NOH8 Campaign. Liza’s NOH8 portrait was unveiled last Friday by the organization whose mission is to promote equality through visual protest. The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest created in direct response to the passage of California’s Proposition 8…
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. State Department lifted its travel ban on Mariela Castro and has authorized Ms. Castro to visit Philadelphia to participate in Equality Forum 2013, a national and international LGBT civil rights summit with Cuba as the featured nation. Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, accepted being a panelist on the…
Following the announcement last week by the Boy Scouts of America that it would consider repealing the ban for scouts but not for scout leaders openly-gay CNN anchor, Don Lemon talked to John Stemberger, a scoutmaster, anti-gay activist and founder of Onlinehonor.org – a group that opposes being openly gay in the Boy Scouts and…
(CNN) — When Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson entered a floor debate Monday over a legislative effort to repeal the state’s same-sex marriage ban, he had no idea he’d be waking up the next morning with his name in national headlines. That’s because Atkinson, 44, publicly announced he was gay. The decision, he said, was…
In a historic turn, Nevada became the first legislative body in the United States to vote to repeal a ban on same-sex marriage Monday night. The Nevada senate voted 12-9 to overturn a constitutional ban that was enacted in 2002 that permitted only opposite-sex couples to enter into marriage. The new language would permit Nevada…
(CNN) — The Boy Scouts of America would no longer deny membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation but would maintain its ban on openly gay adult leaders under a proposal it is considering, the group said Friday. The organization’s executive committee made the proposal, which is expected to be presented to the…
LONDON — In what some are calling the first of its kind, a Lewisham, England science teacher was summarily fired for telling a class of 15- and 16- year-olds that the homosexual lifestyle was “disgusting.” Robert Haye, 43 and a Seventh-day Adventist, appealed the decision but the High Court struck it down calling their decision…
VIETNAM — In what some are arguably calling the latest (and most controversial) salvo in the same-sex marriage debate, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien will deliver a speech today in Hanoi that calls for the immediate repeal on the ban on same-sex marriage. “[A]s human beings, homosexuals have the same rights as everyone else…
