The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office warned its LGBT citizens of the risks of traveling to North Carolina and Mississippi, which have enacted anti-LGBT laws. The updated travel warning comes just ahead of President Obama’s planned visit to England. The new Foreign Office advice states: “The US is an extremely diverse society and attitudes towards LGBT people…
U.S. swimming champion Tom Luchsinger has come out as gay. In an open letter published on Outsports Luchsinger described himself as the “king of the double life”, saying “I have come to accept who I am”. Luchsinger writes: Winning my national title in June of 2013 changed my life. All of a sudden I was…
Today, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), launched Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT). ACT is an ambitious $200 million initiative to double the total number of children receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) across ten priority African countries over the next two years. This investment…
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, arguably the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Gays and lesbians in the United States saw a very different world in the late 1960s. Most lived their lives in…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a historic announcement, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice announced a nearly $4 million partnership between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) to encourage and support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) business owners and entrepreneurs in developing countries. The unprecedented agreement, presented…
Uganda warned on Monday that U.S. sanctions slapped on the country over its tough anti-gay laws would harm the “most vulnerable” in the country. Washington last week froze some aid programs, as well as cancelling military air exercises and barring entry to the U.S. for specific Ugandan officials involved in “human rights abuses”, including against the gay…
NEW YORK – At its annual meeting today in Dallas, the U.S. Conference of Mayors overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on federal courts, including the Supreme Court, to expeditiously bring an end to marriage discrimination against gay couples nationwide. Mayors from states that still ban marriage for same-sex couples, including Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri,…
SAN DIEGO — A contingent of LGBT movement leaders from around the globe will participate in a panel discussion titled Pride World Forum Tuesday, July 1 at 6:30 p.m. at The San Diego LGBT Community Center in Hillcrest. The San Diego Diplomacy Council is hosting the contingent of leaders who are visiting the United States,…
WASHINGTON –– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today urged Secretary of State John Kerry to directly raise the United States’ vehement opposition to Uganda’s recent enactment of state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia in his meeting this afternoon with Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa. In addition, following recent news that an Administration-ordered interagency review of the U.S. relationship…
NEW YORK — Which U.S. city is most friendly toward LGBT residents? Which big cities don’t even make the list? What’s the gayest city in “red state” America? Which metro area has the highest percentage of out politicians? Where do same-sex Craigslist hookups happen most frequently? Vocativ (vocativ.com), the global media organization for the Digital…
