ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed an historic bill extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state. In a grand signing ceremony in Annapolis O’Malley said, “For a free and diverse people, for a people of many faiths, for a people committed to the principle of religious freedom, the…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released a white paper titled: Transgender-Inclusive Health Care Coverage and the Corporate Equality Index, a resource for employers to make their workplaces more equitable for transgender employees. The white paper is an educational tool for employers…
Susana Martinez, the Latina Republican governor of New Mexico, needed a new do. Her stylist, a gay man upset by her support of laws against same-sex marriage, refused her service. Is he an activist? Or is he simply as intolerant as she? This was the conundrum posed by a talk-radio host who subscribed affirmatively to…
The Anoka-Hennepin School District settled a federal civil rights investigation Monday stemming from a lawsuit filed last summer, closing a long legal battle in the district’s anti-discrimination policies for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Following the district’s pledge to improve the treatment of LGBT students, the White House released a proposed consent…
TRENTON, N.J. – In response to the plaintiff’s request for reconsideration, a New Jersey Superior Court has reinstated the federal equal protection claim in a Lambda Legal case seeking marriage equality on behalf of Garden State Equality and seven same-sex couples and their children harmed by the state’s unequal civil union system. Garden State Equality,…
Former Growing Pains star, Kirk Cameron, has some apologizing to do after the child actor called homosexuality “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization” in a television interview with Piers Morgan Friday. “Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve….
This is the must-see, once-in-a-lifetime production of the thought-provoking production of “8,” the stage play about the landmark trial brought by Kristin M. Perry against the State of California in the person of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other officials, arguing that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional and violates hers, her partner’s and the constitutionally protected civil…
George Clooney may be the Sexiest Man Alive, but that doesn’t stop The Descendants star from debunking gay rumors that pop up now and again. The Oscar-winner talks to The Advocate this week about gay gossip, standing firm on his position that he doesn’t care if people think he is gay. “Who does it hurt…
Gay Mississippians tried to rally in Jackson Thursday to draw attention to the need for LGBT equality, but were turned away by the police despite having applied for a permit. Police informed Bob Gilchrist, event organizer, that the city permit was denied on grounds of failure to secure required liability insurance and “safety concerns” according…
Chad H. Griffin was appointed Friday as the next president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, by the organization’s Board of Directors. Griffin, a national communications and policy strategist, is widely credited for being the mastermind behind the federal lawsuit to overturn California’s…
