By Paul Steinhauser CNN Political Editor CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (CNN) — Americans are divided on whether last week’s Republican Convention made them more likely to vote for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a new national survey. A Gallup poll released Monday morning indicates that four in ten adults say they are more likely…
A Brazilian man, who adopted a child with his male partner two years ago and requested the same four-month legally mandated leave opportunity from his employer at the time, has just been awarded “maternity” leave by Brazil‘s Social Security agency. Brazilian law mandates that companies provide a four-month paid leave from work for a mother…
BY ADAM LATHAM Mr. San Diego Leather 2004 Wow, what a weekend. Everyone planned, worked, and hoped that the new San Diego Leather Pride event, ROMP San Diego, would be fun; but it turned out fantastic. Members the San Diego leather communities have been working hard for this, the very first year that the Mr. and Ms….
The University of Texas has concluded that no formal investigation of the study methodology used by associate professor of sociology, Mark Regnerus, is warranted in regard to a controversial study he published in the journal, Social Science Research. The study indicates that children raised by gay parents experienced worse childhoods on average than children of married…
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,…
GLAAD‘S 2012 Network Responsibility Index reflects the changing times for LGBT people, revealing a broadcast and cable television lineup, despite having grown almost exponentially since GLAAD‘s early days monitoring the mediascape for homophobia and all forms of anti-LGBT bigotry, that is replete with LGBT characters, personalities and issues portrayed or presented in realistic, often positive…
Even though the pastor of a church in Dayton, Ohio expressed concern that the burning of the church was an arson hate-crime, officials in Dayton are denying that was the case, citing a 36-year-old suspect’s stated motive for the crime. According to the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said suspect…
‘Richard III’ at The Old Globe, through Sept. 29 A review presented as a one-act coffee house caricature dialogue by San Diego’s most unpredictable theater critic, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Thom Vegh Place: Filter Coffee House, San Diego Time: Another unrelenting sunny day around 10 a.m. (As the curtain rises KIP, an arts writer for…
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) – Robbie Moore and Matt Hastings have been together for six years. As a gay couple, they’ve watched heterosexual members of their families celebrate their big days wondering if they will ever enjoy their own. But this week could herald the start of a new life for these two Tasmanians: Married life….
NEW YORK – Barbara Walters will serve as emcee for a major upcoming event that will mark the one-year anniversary of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) repeal and honor Admiral Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The event, Celebrating Our Heroes, is scheduled to take place Tuesday, Sept. 18 aboard the…
