Transgender students, and their parents, educators and friends today are both relieved and concerned that that while the California School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266), which helps schools better understand how to provide a fair opportunity for transgender students to participate and succeed, failed to qualify for a referendum based on a random count…
Positive attitudes are great! And a recent study by UBS finds that LGBT investors are an optimistic bunch when compared to straight investors. The LGBT community has a significantly higher belief that the long-term outlook for the U.S. economy is improving; that the worst of the economic downturn is over; and that the U.S. will…
NEW YORK – According to this special study, LGBT investors reported feeling more optimistic than other investors about the country’s economic outlook and their own personal finances following the U.S. Supreme court ruling overthrowing the federal Defense of Marriage Law (DOMA). This optimistic outlook is visible in both LGBT investors’ long-term perspective (67 percent v….
When Rick Santorum ran for president, people asked if I was offended as a gay man. My reply, “No, I’m offended as a Pennsylvania native.” Similarly, the Supreme Court arguments on marriage equality didn’t upset me as a gay man, but the suspicious use of data offended me as a scientist. Let’s start with Justice…
Here’s the latest on Wednesday’s Supreme Court session on the Defense of Marriage Act: [Updated at 1:20 p.m. ET] “I’m very optimistic that DOMA will be struck down. It has no rational basis for being,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said just now. Pelosi was at the Supreme Court to hear arguments over DOMA and…
Today, the President Barack Obama signed into law S. 47, the “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013,” which reauthorizes several Violence Against Women Act grant programs through FY 2018; and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 through FY 2017. An extract from the president’s remarks at the signing ceremony: ” … And today,…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender investors are largely optimistic about their financial futures, but many don’t realize just how much extra money same-sex couples pay because the federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage. Two-thirds, or 66%, of LGBT investors are optimistic about their financial futures, compared to just half of the…
