House LGBT Caucus calls on Dominican Republic to support openly gay Ambassador Brewster

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus today called on President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic to support Ambassador James “Wally” Brewster, Jr. by renouncing the insulting efforts to remove the ambassador from office simply because of his sexual orientation.  LGBT Caucus members Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Rep. Joe Kennedy (MA-04) took the lead to draft…

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National LGBTQ Task Force appoints new director of the Academy for Leadership & Action

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National LGBTQ Task Force has announced that long-time community organizer Reverend Rodney McKenzie, Jr. has been appointed as the organization’s new Director of the Academy for Leadership and Action. Most recently, McKenzie served the organization as the Faith Work Director. He succeeds Sarah Reece, who has been tapped as the organization’s…

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Jamaican national avoids deportation by claiming he’s gay 12 years after murdering another teen

LONDON — In case that is sending shockwaves through the British legal system, a Jamaican national known only as ‘JR’ was spared deportation from England after a London Court of Appeals ruled that he was at risk of having his human rights abrogated should he be sent back to his home country, reports U.K.’s Daily…

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