GENEVA — A 5-member UN human rights committee announced that a Thai law professor is its choice to be the UN’s first monitor against anti-gay violence, yet an Egyptian diplomat on the panel is boycotting the mandate. In a report circulated by the president of the UN human rights council (UNHRC), its Consultative Group—comprised of…
A petition on Change.org is calling for stars to boycott the Mormon Tabernacle Choir after a recent anti-LGBT policy from the church. Scott Fausett, the starter, has three children, all of whom have been raised in the church. He had this to say about the new ruling, “I am afraid [the] new policy from the…
These two Italian designers have in the past gone out of their way to champion “traditional families” and “family values” which is their right, but this time they have crossed the line and we have the right to react as Elton John and his husband have. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana attacked “synthetic babies, chemical…
Dolce & Gabbana designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have responded to the backlash over statements they made about same-sex families, saying that their views are just “traditional” and not judgmental. The pair had caused outrage when they declared last week in an interview with Italy’s Panorama: “The only family is the traditional one. No…
This weekend Elton John weighed in on the controversial comments made by Dolce and Gabbana with respect to same-sex families. The pair reputedly said “We oppose gay adoptions. … The only family is the traditional one. … No chemical offspring and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be…
Can’t wait to get that next Dolce & Gabbana outfit or luxury accessory? You may want to think again. Following an interview with Italy’s Panorama magazine in which Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana declared, “The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things…
WASHINGTON –– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has released an open letter to leaders in the fashion industry urging them to avoid the Sultan of Brunei’s hotels during their upcoming travel for menswear and haute couture fashion weeks in London, Milan and Paris. The Sultan has faced an international backlash following his recent decision to begin…
WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on lawmakers, activists and allies of the LGBT community to speak out against the planned expansion to New York of a hotel chain owned by the anti-LGBT Sultan of Brunei. The Sultan recently announced that he will soon introduce flogging, amputation, and stoning as possible punishments…
WASHINGTON — Following Brunei’s decision this week to advance a series of penal code reforms that will include stoning as a possible punishment for relations between its LGBT citizens, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sent letters today to the leadership of several organizations that currently plan to host events at American hotels owned by the…
From Media Matters for America comes their latest piece on the right wing media outcry following the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich: To hear conservative media tell it, the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich following an outcry over Eich’s support for the 2008 referendum that banned same-sex marriage in California is merely the…
