In a bid to woo the evangelical vote Ted Cruz wheeled out Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Sunday, to warm up the crowd ahead of his address. CNN Wire reported that Robertson made a forceful case to voters that the Texas senator could restore the U.S. to biblical principles and called gay marriage “evil” and “wicked.”…
ATLANTA – Today, The Leadership Conference Education Fund will release its report, Striking a Balance: Advancing Civil and Human Rights While Preserving Religious Liberty, documenting how the religious arguments commonly used today against LGBT equality have been used to oppose the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and equality, racial integration, inter-racial marriage, immigration, the Americans…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has proposed a new rule change that will lift the “regulatory prohibition that categorically excludes all treatment of gender dysphoria,” thereby extending crucially needed medical care to transgender service members, veterans, and military family members covered under Tricare. The proposed change would not include surgical care which remains prohibited…
Free HIV testing is now available at The Center at the following times. Monday–Friday: 9am-9pm (last test at 8pm) Saturday: 10am-2pm (last test at 1pm) Friday Only Early Test: 12 noon-4pm (last test at 3pm) Couples Testing: 4pm-9pm (last test at 8pm) Both anonymous and confidential testing are available. With an anonymous test, medical staff…
INDIANAPOLIS – As Indiana’s GOP-led Senate Rules Committee once again moved to advance anti-LGBT legislation this week, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) is at the heart of the Hoosier State bringing its message of hope and inclusiveness to LGBTQ youth. Through its “It Gets Better” tour, GMCLA, in collaboration with the It…
SAN FRANCISCO – Equality California announced Friday that it is sponsoring legislation, authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), that would establish the nation’s most progressive restroom access law. AB 1732, the Equal Restroom Access Act, would require single-occupancy restrooms in California businesses, government buildings, and public spaces to be identified as “all gender.” “Restrooms…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — ShortsHD™, the only Short Film Channel (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, opened “THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2016” on over 400 screens across the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America Friday. “THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2016” will showcase the Live Action, Animation and Documentary short film nominees compilation as…
WASHINGTON – Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation announced that celebrity trainer and best-selling author Bob Harper, best known for his role on NBC’s hit show The Biggest Loser, will be honored at HRC’s national Time to THRIVE conference in February. The HRC Foundation also announced that featured speakers at the third annual event,…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — With claims from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that the word ‘GAY’ is “not a well-known abbreviation for the community of LGBTQIA people,” the international organization responsible for maintaining the Internet’s global domain system has denied dotgay LLC’s community application proposal to operate the .GAY top-level domain (TLD). Lexus Nexus search,…
