Speaking as the 4 Friends, a collaboration of San Diego’s AIDS Service Organizations, after 30 years of fighting this fight, we should have something to say. Can we say that all who are living with HIV/AIDS has food to eat, medicine to heal, and a place to live? Can we say we have stopped infecting…
KAMPALA, Uganda – The man who killed leading gay rights activist David Kato has been convicted by a court in Uganda and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ugandan Sidney Nsubunga Enoch told the court that he had no option but to beat Kato to death with a hammer because the gay activist had propositioned…
You wouldn’t have known it in California, but Tuesday, Nov. 8, was Election Day. The third year of a president’s term typically has few marque races, but there were a number of states with elections impacting the progressive movement and the LGBT community. Arizona. In one of the night’s biggest surprises, state Senate President Russell…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police have cancelled an annual gay rights festival, after Muslims called for it to be banned. The Seksualiti Merdeka (Sexuality Freedom) festival has been held in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, since 2008, but has suffered increasing criticism by politicians and religious leaders as it gains awareness. A senior police official…
House Republicans are dumping more and more money into their fight to uphold DOMA, but the Senate Judiciary Committee is pressing ahead with the Respect for Marriage Act – historic legislation that would repeal DOMA once and for all. DOMA deprives same-sex couples of over 1,100 federal rights, benefits, and responsibilities of marriage. It’s not…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched a new video campaign that features Cory Booker, Mo’Nique, and Julian Bond in its latest public campaign for marriage equality, and that’s no accident, according to The New York Times. The videos are part of the Americans for Marriage Equality campaign, which aims to educate Americans about same-sex…
PHILADELPHIA – Anton Tanumihardja and his husband, Brian Andersen – a U.S. citizen – were legally married in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Recently, Anton, a gay man originally from Indonesia who has resided in Philadelphia for the past nine years, was denied a reprieve from deportation by Philadelphia’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) office….
In his speech at a Human Rights Campaign function, President Obama was applauded when he said, “no one has to live a lie to serve the country they love.” Just weeks after the fall of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the president expressed strong sentiment in his speech, explaining, “I’m hopeful, I’m fired up, too!” But…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced today its intent to find the organization’s next new president by March 2012. As a part of their recruitment process, HRC has enlisted Russell Reynolds Associates, one of the nation’s top recruitment firms, to aid in the executive search process. “The new president will be called upon to champion…
The Episcopal church lost one of its own Sunday as Walter C. Righter, a retired, gay-friendly bishop for the church passed at the age of 87. The announcement was confirmed Tuesday by Rich Creehan, spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, where Righter was ordained nearly 60 years ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. Righter…
