“It never occurred to me that I was a lesbian. I wanted to know who I was in the world. After my relationship started, I never questioned it. That explains that!” Meredith Baxter Actress 2011 Grand Marshal “Harvey gave his life for a movement – for our LGBT rights movement – and we must ask…
When the man who wrote some of the most memorable and important words ever spoken in the history of the English language has something to say; when Dr. Clarence Jones, speechwriter for the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has something to say; people’s ears tend to perk up. Expect thousands of perked-up ears…
(CNN) – The daughter of Cuba’s president supports the re-election bid of President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast recently on CNNi’s Amanpour. “As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama’s recent decision to support same-sex marriage was the lead selling point against Mitt Romney in the president’s campaign announcement last week of a new drive to court the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) community. “The choice we’re facing as a country and a community could not be clearer,” said Joe Solmonese, a…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) LGBT group commemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), May 17, with a message of hope and appeal for dialogue and change, reports pinknews.co.uk. Abdalla, the chair of the group said, “On the 17th of May 1990 the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality…
The Obama Administration announced Wednesday the launch of Obama Pride: LGBT Americans for Obama, a new grassroots initiative in support of LGBT Americans. “Gays and lesbians will have someone who will fight for equal rights for them… I’m here with you in that fight,” said Obama in his first election campaign. Today, the president continues…
Congressman Bob Filner (D-California) has joined with several prominent LGBT civil rights leaders from San Diego and across the country, calling on the US Navy to name “ … the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk.” The late civil rights icon, Harvey Milk was a Navy veteran who began his service during the Korean War….
Two of the most significant and societally challenging causes of the 21st Century are the environmental and LGBT civil rights movements. Rather than unfolding in isolation from each other – and in spite of their first appearances as completely unrelated – the two movements frequently overlap; share resources and leaders; and even stand in sharp…
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Authorities in Cameroon have illegally shut down a human rights workshop in Yaoundé that was to include discussion of the rights of LGBT people and arrested one of the workshop organizers. According to Human Rights Watch, the action violated rights to freedom of assembly and expression under both Cameroonian and international law….
With all this talk about Proposition 8 and constitutionality over the past year, we can’t lose sight of the sibling issue calling for the repeal of federal laws that infringe on the rights of LGBT persons on the national stage. There are more than 1,000 statutory provisions in which marital status is a factor in…
