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Commentary
‘The Cross in the Closet’ reinforces transphobia while dealing with homophobia
Many people that read “The Cross in the Closet” will have had little or no experience with the “T” part of LGBT. I did not start entering intimate relationships with transgender people until years into my own advocacy work. Most people outside, and some people inside the LGBT community, do not have a grasp of the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Commentary
Minnesota college student wants everyone to know she really hates gays
LGBT student groups and gay-straight alliances in high schools and colleges across the country often sell T-shirts for National Coming Out Day to raise funds and spread awareness about the LGBT community, but one student at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN., decided to use that day to spread a bigoted, hateful message…
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News (USA)
Advocacy groups move to defend California’s ban on reparative therapy
Two LGBT advocacy groups, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Equality California, filed court papers late Friday seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the new California law protecting LGBT youth from “gay-to-straight” reparative therapy.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Billy Haines, popular 1930s film star
William “Billy” Haines was one of the most popular silent and talking film stars of the 1930’s. He left show business when he refused to deny his homosexuality.
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News (USA)
East Aurora, Ill., school board flip-flops on transgender rights policy
AURORA — In a special meeting Friday evening, the East Aurora School Board voted to repeal a policy that would create protections for gender nonconforming students that they quickly and unanimously passed just five days ago.
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Life
Spirit Day founder: ‘Go outside your comfort zone, make a stand’
NEW YORK — After a spate of teen suicides in the Fall of 2010 as a result of anti-gay bullying, one Canadian high school student decided that she was going to make a difference.
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Life
Linda Harvey marks ‘Spirit Day’ with anti-gay tirade against bullying-prevention efforts
Mission America president Linda Harvey today unleashed yet another vitriolic and denialist rant against anti-bullying efforts, coinciding with GLAAD’s Spirit Day to combat bullying and stand up for LGBT youth.
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News (USA)
President Obama campaigns in Virginia on LGBT-inclusive vision
FAIRFAX, Va. — President Obama presented an LGBT-inclusive vision for the country Friday during a campaign rally in a battleground state that could help determine the outcome of the election.
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Commentary
Elizabeth Emken: The making of an anti-gay politician
The vision stays with me, even after all these years. I’m in junior high, and I’ve just looked into the eyes of an overweight girl, having just delivered a devastatingly cruel blow. Her bright blue eyes, haunted and broken, serve as lingering reminders of how destructive words can be, and I’ve often wished I could take that moment back. Little did I know that girl, Elizabeth Emken, would years later run for public office, in an attempt to unseat California Senator Dianne Feinstein…
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News (USA)
NOM mastermind Frank Schubert makes millions selling LGBT discrimination
National Organization for Marriage (NOM) strategist Frank Schubert has made nearly $3 million selling anti-LGBT discrimination in just the past year, according to NOM Exposed, a project of the Human Rights Campaign.
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News (USA)
Marriage equality advocate Chris Kluwe to debate an empty chair
Borrowing from Clint Eastwood’s much maligned appearance at the Republican National Convention in August, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe said he will debate an empty chair on the issue of marriage equality.
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Commentary
A letter to my bully…
I have hated you almost every day since we first met. But for different reasons altogether than you might expect. I still remember the terror I felt, every time I approached the soccer field. It was junior high, a difficult time for almost everyone, but for me, especially so. You see, I’d always known I was gay…
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News (USA)
Millions expected to dress in purple, in person and online, for Spirit Day 2012
Millions of LGBT people and their allies will dress in purple on Friday — both in person and online — to mark the third annual Spirit Day, a day demonstrate support for LGBT youth and to speak out against bullying.
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News (USA)
Cartoonist fired, student newspaper apologizes for anti-gay cartoon
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student-run daily newspaper at the University of Arizona, has issued an apology and fired the cartoonist after publishing an editorial cartoon that critics said advocated violence against LGBT people.
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News (USA)
Poll: Battle over Minnesota gay marriage ban ‘too close to call’
ST. PAUL, Minn. — With less than three weeks from Election Day, the battle over Minnesota’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is too close to call.
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News (USA)
Bloomberg’s Super PAC will support marriage equality initiatives
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the creation of his own “super PAC” to direct millions of dollars in donations to elect candidates from both parties who he believes will “focus on problem solving” and support policy issues such as legalizing same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Memphis approves LGBT protections for city workers
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis City Council has approved a non-discrimination ordinance including protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, in addition to disability, age, national origin, and ethnicity.
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Life
Gallup study reports that only 3.4% of Americans identify as LGBT
A new study by the Gallup organization — posed to more than 120,000 U.S. adults thus far — shows that only 3.4 percent said “yes” when asked if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
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Life
Harvey: Halloweens’ ‘demonic’ underpinnings explain why it’s a ‘huge celebration in the LGBT world’
Mission America’s Linda Harvey is warning listeners against participating in Halloween festivities, and naturally uses Halloween to criticize the LGBT community. She explains that Halloween’s purportedly Satanic origins explain why it is a “huge celebration in the LGBT world, especially for the gender-confused folks.”
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News (USA)
Federal appeals court: DOMA discriminates against married, same-sex couples
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples.