Yesterday the largest newspaper in Minneapolis, the Star-Tribune, ran an ad placed by the anti-LGBT organization Minnesota Child Protection League. The ad was placed in an attempt to influence the Minnesota High School League’s upcoming ruling on whether to allow transgender athletes to play on teams according to their identified gender, a policy that would…
Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network) will hold its ninth annual national gathering from July 31-Aug. 3 in Minneapolis, bringing together youth and adult ally GSA leaders from across the country for four days of workshops, trainings and plenaries focused on strengthening the national GSA movement. Gay-Straight Alliance clubs are student-led groups that work to transform their…
MINNEAPOLIS — The fifteenth anniversary Out & Equal Workplace Summit will be in Minneapolis Oct. 28 – 31. It is expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees from 27 countries to share best practices to create LGBT workplace equality. The Workplace Summit comes with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) heading for a vote in the US House of Representatives. “It’s…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been touring the country trying to get businesses to move to Texas. If he really wants to bring more money into his state, perhaps he should talk to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. Rybak has been touring states without marriage equality, inviting same-sex couples to wed in Minneapolis. Minnesota is the…
http://youtu.be/js6QhN-vYPk Talk about an unfortunate slip of the tongue! HuffPost reports that Bill Lunn a newscaster for KSTP, the local ABC affiliate in Minneapolis had a “blooper moment” while introducing a segment on the Minneapolis Pride parade during the evening news. When saying the phrase “I pledge allegiance to the flag…,” Lunn accidentally said “fag”…
