Amid the controversy surrounding transgender individuals using public bathrooms one McDonald’s franchise in Seattle Wash. is very clear on their policy. Huffpost reported that Tuesday a Reddit user posted a photo of a memo hung in a downtown Seattle, Wash., McDonald’s. “This was posted up in my local McDonald’s. Made me smile,” the user wrote….
(CNN) — The French Senate approved a controversial bill Friday that would give same-sex couples the rights to marry and adopt. The lower house has already approved the legislation. The bill, to which 10 amendments were made in the Senate, must still go through a second reading in the National Assembly and a final reading…
The Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast of San Diego County’s co-chairs, City Commissioners Nicole Murray Ramirez and Robert Gleason have announced that this year’s honorees will be Gov. Barbara Roberts, the first elected woman governor of Oregon and a long-time civil rights and women’s advocate, and Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, who wrote the screenplay…
(CNN) — At 7, Analouisa Valencia was crowned Palmetto Princess in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She relished it — and like a lot of little girls, she dreamed of becoming Miss America one day. In a few months, Valencia, now 19, will take the stage for the Miss South Carolina contest, hoping for victory and a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new LGBT Global Development Partnership, a public-private partnership between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute (GLVI), the Williams Institute, and Olivia Companies, which further promotes foreign assistance to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…
18-year-old and HIV Recently, an 18 year-old-friend of mine told me his doctor told him he had HIV. This young gay man was upset but then told me he hardly ever used condoms and none of his other young friends used them either. What the hell! It’s unbelievable, but many of our younger generation I…
(CNN) — It’s not just the United States grappling with the issue of same-sex marriage. Many countries around the world are re-examining their laws, and some appear to be on the brink of changing them. Senators in Uruguay approved a marriage equality bill Tuesday that puts them on course to be the 12th country in…
(CNN) — Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who rose to GOP fame in recent months, apologized Friday for appearing to equate homosexuality with the criminal acts of pedophilia and bestiality. “I love gay people. I love straight people. So this was really, I think, on my behalf, somewhat insensitive and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone,…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Supreme Court is toiling over a decision on two landmark cases involving same-sex marriage. But many companies have already decided to support them. Last week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz publicly told off an investor who complained that the coffee giant’s support of same-sex couples was hurting profits. “It’s a free…
While Supreme Court coverage over two potentially decisive blows to the anti-gay marriage movement continues to spill over, the Atlantic.com has unearthed some amazing video from a same-sex marriage protest from 1971. The video, posted in three approximately ten-minute segments on YouTube, shows the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA), one of two major gay organizations to…
