SOUTHAMPTON, England – A man selected for jury duty faces prosecution after he claimed he was unable to serve as a juror due to his “… extreme prejudices against homosexuals and black/foreign people.” The Southern Daily Echo reported that the man wrote to the court after he was selected to serve on the jury in…
CNN presenter Anderson Cooper has made his first public comments about being gay since he came out last July. Speaking Monday on his new daytime show Anderson Live, he told his guest co-host Kristen Chenowith, “Everybody in my life … since I’ve been an adult and since I was a kid, I mean, I came…
SAN FRANCISCO – A report from the California attorney general’s office published yesterday reveals that hate crimes involving a sexual orientation bias decreased 12.5 percent, from 279 in 2010 to 244 in 2011. Sexual orientation hate crimes were the second most common type of hate crime, comprising 23 percent of hate crimes reported in 2011….
Just before this year’s San Diego Pride, we chatted with NormSoft founder and chief technology officer, Tim Norman about his company’s partnership with San Diego LGBT Weekly, LGBTweekly.com and our retail discounts meet civil rights product, called The Pride Card. Because the final phases of the rollouts of the mobile applications the partnership has produced…
WASHINGTON – Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president, Chad Griffin, has sent a letter to California Gov. Jerry Brown urging him to support SB 1172, a bill prohibiting therapists from harming youth by subjecting them to dangerous efforts that purport to change one’s sexual orientation. “It is time to safeguard the most vulnerable among us by…
TAMPA, Fla. –The Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry and Log Cabin Republicans will be running an ad in Wednesday’s Tampa Tribune calling on the GOP to support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples. With The Republican National Conference gearing up for Mitt Romney’s address, the full-page color ad, features photos…
MANCHESTER, England – Thousands lined the streets of Manchester’s city center to watch one of the U.K.’s largest LGBT Pride parades, this past weekend. Locals and visitors alike defied the forecasted rain to turn out in their thousands to support this year’s Manchester Pride parade, featuring more than 100 participating companies, individuals, sponsors, and local…
Parishioners across Scotland got an earful of anti-LGBT equality during Roman Catholic services Sunday in the form of a cardinal’s letter mourning the legalization of same-sex marriage and beseeching the faithful to join the church to roll back the new rights, which the government in Edinburgh has granted to gays, lesbians and bisexual citizens. Scotland‘s…
A relative rarity on America’s political scene nowadays, far-right Democratic Kansas state representative, Jan Pauls has beaten Erich Bishop, an openly gay son of a former KKK member in a primary election. According to the Kansas City Star, the primary election results were a mere eight votes apart. Now, the incumbent Pauls will run against…
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Today, T-Mobile USA announced the company’s endorsement of Referendum 74 by donating to, and supporting the efforts of, Washington United for Marriage (WUM), the broad, bipartisan statewide coalition working to defend the state’s marriage law. “T-Mobile has a long-standing focus on creating an inclusive workplace environment for our employees,” said Jim Alling,…
