Washington United for Marriage, the broad coalition working to Approve Referendum 74 and defend the state’s marriage law, today cited a new independent poll showing a majority of voters support the freedom to marry. According to Survey USA conducted for KING5-TV in Seattle of 524 Likely Voters from Sept. 7 through Sept. 9, 56% of…
SAN FRANCISCO – The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has announced that Geoff Kors, a long-time leader in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement, has joined NCLR’s staff as senior legislative and policy strategist. Kors will work with NCLR State Legislative Director Connie Utada and NCLR Policy Director Maya Rupert to strengthen and…
If you are an artist you know that making a living, earning an income from your artistic labor and having that effort help put food on your table and pay bills can be difficult. Therefore, many artists make art and simultaneously work a full-time job, maintain a home and family and kids and pets. It…
NEW YORK – Freedom to Marry (FM), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund (NGLTFA) have teamed up to form United for Marriage, a national effort to recruit volunteers for the state campaigns. The campaign will use two programs to harness the growing support for marriage for…
Dublin City Council has voted 38-4 to allow same-sex civil marriage there. A press release by Marriage Equality stated two motions in support of marriage equality were put forward by councilors from Labour and Sinn Féin and passed at last night’s council meeting, having been considered jointly. Dublin City Council joins Cork City Council and…
Actor and LGBT advocate Wilson Cruz has joined The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) staff as the strategic giving officer. Cruz will be part of GLAAD‘s development team, helping to fund GLAAD‘s work amplifying stories from the LGBT community that build support for equality. Announcing the appointment Herndon Graddick, president of GLAAD said,…
New Zealand news Web site, stuff.co.nz is reporting that Prime Minister John Key is publicly refuting a 20,000-copy leaflet that was distributed by New Zealand‘s Conservative Party to residents of Helensville, proclaiming that Key is “too gay” to represent that district’s electorate. ”We live in a world where equality is pretty important,” said the prime minister,…
As the Republican National Convention comes to an end, I feel compelled to write an open letter to those in the LGBT community who are Republican. Can LGBT Republicans help me understand how you have come to be a part of a political party that truly seems to despise you? You know that the Republican…
Positively Aware, a magazine devoted to HIV treatment and wellness published bi-monthly by Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) in Chicago, is sponsoring A Day with HIV, an annual photo essay to be published in the forthcoming November/December issue. Each day across the globe almost 7,000 people, including 900 children, will contract HIV, joining an estimated…
Just before this year’s San Diego Pride, we chatted with NormSoft founder and chief technology officer, Tim Norman about his company’s partnership with San Diego LGBT Weekly, LGBTweekly.com and our retail discounts meet civil rights product, called The Pride Card. Because the final phases of the rollouts of the mobile applications the partnership has produced…
