White House supports efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy for minors

WASHINGTON – The White House has responded to a petition with over 120,000 signers seeking “help to ban the practice known as ‘conversion therapy.’” The petition came in response to the heartbreaking story of Leelah Alcorn, a 17 year old transgender youth who tragically took her own life after being subjected to the horrifying experiences…

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After the Oscars, Turing’s family delivers pardon petition to British government

Today, relatives of Alan Turing, the subject of the Oscar-award winning film The Imitation Game, delivered signatures from the Change.org petition calling for the more than 49,000 men who were convicted under the UK’s now revoked anti-gay laws to be pardoned like Turing was to British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London. Rachel…

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Alan Cumming stars in new PSA about FDA’s blood donor policy (VIDEO)

NEW YORK — A coalition of organizations, including GLAAD and Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), have launced a new PSA and social media campaign starring Alan Cumming to raise awareness about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) blood donor deferral policy for men who have sex with men.  Created by Saatchi & Saatchi NY…

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Petition started for historic designation of one of San Diego’s earliest LGBTQ meeting sites

A Change.org petition has been started in support of the historic designation of 2004 El Cajon Blvd., considered to be one of the earliest and most important historic sites in San Diego to the LGBTQ community. Started by Charles Kaminski of Lambda Archives of San Diego, the petition states that, “The Michels-Carey apartment (2004 El…

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TLC: When ratings come at the expense of vulnerable LGBT people

TLC has created an arsenal of wildly successul reality television shows by sensationalizing the stories of unusual people. Media Matters for America’s latest piece looks at what happens when a network’s search for ratings gold comes at the expense of vulnerable LGBT people. Jan. 11, TLC aired its controversial one-hour special, My Husband’s Not Gay. The…

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‘Leelah’s Law’ petition reaches more than 280,000 signatures

A fast growing Change.org petition to enact ‘Leelah’s Law’ to ban transgender conversion therapy, in honor of transgender teen Leela Alcorn has reached more than 280,000 signatures. The 17-year-old teenager from Ohio whose suicide note blamed gay conversion therapy for her death, and called on others to “fix society” to prevent more transgender suicides. One…

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The Duggars just made it easier to discriminate against LGBT people. Will TLC react?

The Duggar family – made famous by TLC’s popular reality television show – just helped repeal an ordinance protecting LGBT people from discrimination. What responsibility does TLC have for the work being carried out by its reality TV superstars asks Media Matters for America. Since the debut of their TLC reality show 19 Kids and…

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Thousands sign petition to cancel ’19 Kids and Counting’ over Duggars anti-LGBT stance

Thousands have signed  a petition calling for the cancellation of the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting over the stars’ discriminatory sentiments against the LGBT community. According to the Huffington Post, a petition on Change.org launched by Jim Wissick of San Jose, Calif.,  states that 19 Kids and Counting, starring conservative Baptists Jim Bob and…

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