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News (USA)
Hallmark has a greeting card for transitioning
The card is available both through Hallmark’s website and at some CVSes.
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Commentary
Kellyanne Conway spins everything
Kellyanne Conway explains how the Access Hollywood tape and the “Lock her up” chants show how much respect Trump has for women.
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News (USA)
Mormon church to cut ties with Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts’ evolving view on LGBTQ people is one of reasons the church wants to have less to do with the organization.
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News (USA)
Fewer babies named ‘Caitlyn’ in the year following Jenner’s coming out
The baby name the dropped the most dramatically last year was “Caitlyn,” as well as several other spellings of it.
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News (USA)
Kentucky T-shirt maker refuses to make Pride T-shirts, wins case
The court ruled that opposing the message of Pride is not the same thing as discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
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News (USA)
Right wingnuts cheer cancellation of Dan Savage’s ‘Real O’Neals’ sitcom
Anti-LGBTQ activist and homophobe Bill Donohue claimed victory over “filthy-mouthed bigot” Dan Savage.
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News (USA)
Transgender cadets stuck in limbo, can graduate but not serve
Even though the Pentagon rescinded the ban on transgender soldiers, some are still prevented from serving openly.
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News (World)
Outrage follows arrest of Moscow activists trying to deliver Chechnya petitions
Police stopped them in their tracks carrying several boxes of signed petitions demanding an investigation into the detention and torture of gay men.
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple granted divorce despite legislators’ attempts to make it a circus
A judge initially ruled that one of the women had no parental rights to a child conceived by artificial insemination because she wasn’t the “husband.”
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News (USA)
Watch out! Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer drives her podium through NYC
Perhaps Spicey is going out for some gum?
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News (USA)
North Carolina tries to defend anti-LGBT law with legal technicality
North Carolina allows magistrates to recuse themselves from performing marriages “based on any sincerely held religious objections.”
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News (USA)
Kellyanne Conway to appear at Christian hate group summit
The event is hosted by The Family Leader, whose mission is to inspire “Christ-like leadership in the home, the church, and the government.”
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News (USA)
Kentucky court rules Christian printer has religious right to discriminate
The court of appeals upheld the decision that Hands On Originals had the right to refuse to make Pride T-shirts.
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News (World)
Meet Argentina’s first transgender police chief
She served in Argentina’s federal police for 20 years, but when she came out as a transgender woman, they forced her to resign.
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News (USA)
Donald Trump has rekindled his Twitter feud with Rosie O’Donnell
Doesn’t the president have more to worry about right now than riling up Rosie O’Donnell?
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News (USA)
Vatican official: Some Catholic saints were gay
Father James Martin set off a fiery debate with the suggestion that LGBTQ people are welcome in heaven.
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News (USA)
Polling shows Americans are more accepting of gay people than ever
A yearly poll from Gallup on social issues shows a definite trend to the left on a number of social issues.
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News (USA)
Texas’ proposed bathroom bill is likely to fail
The Republican-controlled state House ran out the clock Thursday on a key midnight bill deadline.
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Life
The Democrats’ new CEO is a power lesbian
Jess O’Connell, the former Executive Director of EMILY’s List, is taking the helm. What does that say for LGBT rights?
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News (USA)
Missouri politician: Gays aren’t human beings
Citing both the Bible and the Quran, this politician argued that there is a “distinction” between being gay and being human.