Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week. Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose…
For years, efforts to pass laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment and public accommodations have been derailed by the right-wing myth that sexual predators will exploit those laws to sneak into women’s restrooms. In 2014, that myth finally began to lose steam, reports Media Matters For America in their latest post. Anti-LGBT activists…
Jan. 4, 2015 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Oprah Prime on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. and the Selma marches 50 years later. Oprah sits down with acclaimed actor David Oyelowo, star of the upcoming feature film Selma, along with the film’s award-winning director Ava DuVernay, for a conversation…
Morocco has jailed two men for having gay sex, reports Pink News. A court sentenced two men Dec.23 to three years in prison for “homosexual practices”, the maximum penalty under the law. The ruling was fast-tracked by the court, after the two men, believed to have been local to the area, were found having sex …
ABC released the first promo for the 2015 Oscars, Christmas Day, featuring Patrick Neal Harris with a last-minute gift idea — tell your family to watch him host the Oscars! When Harris was confirmed as host, his first time, in October he said, “To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy…
The Interview banked $1 million at the box office on Christmas Day, and it could make a couple million more over the long holiday weekend, reports CNNMoney. “The audience reaction was fantastic – the limited release, in under 10 percent of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over…
http://youtu.be/rbWF3wMFaUQ Few public figures have been accused of homophobia more frequently than Eminem — and now he’s coming out as gay, reports the Huffington Post. The rapper is just one of many celebrities who pokes fun of himself with a cameo in the controversial new comedy The Interview. In the clip above, Eminem, whose homophobic…
Despite a record number of states legalizing same-sex marriage, Michael Sam coming out and the very real prospect of a film about a gay mathematician taking home the ‘Best Picture’ prize at the 87th annual Academy Awards, 2014 was filled with reminders that the arc for LGBT civil rights is never a straight line. Brian…
Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Equality Florida sent a six-page memo to the court clerks of Florida’s 67 counties. The memo explains why – notwithstanding contrary advice provided to the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers in legal memoranda from a private law firm dated July 1, 2014 and Dec….
The Obama administration has taken action against the Gambian government following recent human rights abuses in the country, which include the vicious targeting of LGBT people and a new law that could send some LGBT Gambians to prison for life. In a statement released by the White House, the United States has suspended The Gambia’s…
