As part of a planned increase in education enrichment programs, the White House will host a conference next week at which President Obama will address concerns surrounding anti-LGBT bullying. In the wake several high-profile, bullying-related suicides last year, the issue of LGBT bullying and its effect on education and safety has received new attention and…
Chief Justice John Roberts summed up today’s Supreme Court ruling in the case of Snyder v. Phelps with a simple statement: according to 8 out of 9 justices, the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church members who protested at the funeral of gay Iraq war veteran Matthew Snyder “had the right to be where they were.” MetroWeekly…
UNITED KINGDOM – Hundreds of people gathered outside the locked doors of the John Snow pub in Soho, London last week and staged a mass kiss-in at 7 p.m. as a protest at the London pub after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing. Several weeks ago two men were asked to…
Amidst the media flurry surrounding the Obama administration’s decision last week to discontinue court defense of the DOMA, the White House made another landmark move in support of LGBT equality. Officials announced last Friday that Jeremy Bernard, an openly gay senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, will assume the position of President’ Obama’s…
California’s attorney general Kamala Harris requested today that a federal appeals court allow same-sex marriages to resume during the California Supreme Court’s consideration of legal questions surrounding the state’s ban on gay marriage. In a letter to the 9th Ciruit Court of Appeals, Harris argued that a continued enforcement of Proposition 8 was in direct…
Outserve, an organization made up of LGBT members of the United States Armed Services, has recently announced that the Navy will be the first of the branches to implement Tier 3 Training, also known as General Population Training. The training centers on the recent repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, and how…
The government has asked U.S. federal courts to uphold the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy as of Friday, even though the Obama administration has concluded that laws targeting gay Americans are, presumably, unconstitutional. Court documents state the request was made in an opening brief challenging a Southern California trial judge who in September ruled against…
In the immediate wake of yesterday’s Department of Justice announcement regarding the cessation of defense for Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, Ted Olsen announced that the California lawyers working against Proposition 8 in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to immediately allow same-sex…
The Department of Justice announced today that it believes courts should apply heightened scrutiny to laws that classify people on sexual orientation such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender statuses. In light of the heightened awareness, the Defense of Marriage Act is now in the spotlight. In wake of the news, Attorney General Eric Holder…
Perry Moore, executive producer of the “Chronicles of Narnia” film trilogy and co-writer and director of “Lake City,” was found dead in his home last Thursday morning. According to the New York Daily News, Moore, 39, was unconscious when he was found by his partner Hunter Hill in the bathroom of their shared home. Responders…
