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Commentary
The face of ‘modern slavery’ looks a lot like us
Imagine, if you can, 400,000 gay youth forced to leave their homes, with no family, no support, and living on the streets. They become the most vulnerable among us. They become the epitome of what is an easy target for the criminals who want only to exploit their bodies for sexual prostitution; and not just prostitution, but commercial sexual exploitation. Children who are forced out of the only home they have ever known by parents, who can’t tolerate the thought of their child being gay, find themselves alone and on the street….
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Life
True LGBT Story: Lisa Morris, a bisexual dilemma — ‘I’m from Portland, Maine’
Lisa Morris, who identifies as bisexual, married a man when she was 29. … “He couldn’t handle it. After we got married he started getting really fearful and jealous and worried and kind of focused on that I would leave him for a woman. I was like, ‘I’m bisexual. I could leave you for a man, I could leave you for a woman.”
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News (USA)
California Governor signs landmark legislation to ban reparative therapy for minors
SAN FRANCISCO — California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday made history by signing a landmark legislation banning psychological therapy aimed at turning gay and lesbian youth straight — often referred to as reparative therapy.
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News (USA)
Historic U.S. Supreme Court session opens Monday
Perhaps the most historic U.S. Supreme Court session ever for the LGBT community gets underway officially October 1, with a record nine gay-related cases seeking review, all involving same-sex marriage.
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News (World)
Tasmanian Parliament’s upper house votes down same-sex marriage bill
HOBART, Tasmania, Australia — A same-sex marriage equality bill that had passed the lower house of the Tasmanian State Parliament was voted down by the upper house after legal experts, particularly a former state chief justice, called into question the federal constitutional legality of the legislation.
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Life
University researchers track millions of anti-gay slurs on Twitter
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada — The University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services in Edmonton has created a new Canadian social-media experiment that found millions of anti-gay slurs on Twitter within the past two months.
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News (USA)
Former employee: Chick-fil-A ‘is a safe place for people to go in and hate’
DUNWOODY, Ga. — A former Chick-fil-A employee is speaking out, and says that the fast food chain “is a safe place for people to go in and hate, and they expect to get patted on the back for it.”
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News (USA)
GOP lawmaker who supported gay marriage defeated in New York primary
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York State Sen. Roy McDonald, one of four GOP lawmakers who voted to legalize same-sex marriage last year, was narrowly defeated in his primary race, and said he won’t campaign as an Independent in the general election, and will instead back his former primary opponent.
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News (USA)
Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe wants to debate anti-gay lawmaker
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter whose profanity-laced letter to a Maryland lawmaker in defense of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo’s support of same-sex marriage, wants to debate a Minnesota state representative who has expressed anti-gay views.
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News (USA)
Brown signs bill ensuring equal access to fertility services for same-sex couples
SAN FRANCISCO — California Governor Jerry Brown (D) on Friday signed a bill to ensure that women in same-sex relationships and single women can access fertility services on the same terms as women in opposite-sex relationships.
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News (USA)
Austin city council approves resolution supporting same-sex marriage
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin city council on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, the first such measure from a Texas city.
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News (World)
Male suitors flock to lesbian after wealthy father offers ‘marriage bounty’
The recently married lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong property and shipping tycoon has been flood with marriage proposals from male suitors after her father offered $65 million “marriage bounty” for any man who can win her heart and walk her down the aisle.
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News (USA)
DHS to spell out LGBT protections in guidance to immigration officials
The Department of Homeland Security intends to spell out in written guidance that immigration officers should consider “long-term, same-sex partners” as families when considering whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion in the potential deportation of an undocumented immigrant.
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News (USA)
GOP attorney strongly defends DOMA in New York widow’s lawsuit
NEW YORK — The House Republican attorney defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court took particular issue on Thursday with an octogenarian lesbian’s case against by the law by suggesting the timing and location of her marriage makes challenge invalid.
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News (USA)
Nebraska lesbian who allegedly faked hate crime headed to trial
LINCOLN, Neb. — Lancaster County, Neb., District Court Judge Gale Pokorny on Thursday continued until Nov. 19 the case against a Nebraska woman charged with providing false information to police in connection to an alleged anti-gay hate crime that investigators now say was an elaborate hoax.
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News (USA)
St. Louis LGBT magazine receives HRC ‘Equality In Media’ award
ST. LOUIS, Mo — The Human Rights Campaign awarded The Vital Voice magazine its first ever “Equality In Media” award during the HRC’s “Homecoming: The 20th Anniversary St. Louis Human Rights Campaign Dinner Gala” on Sept. 22.
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Life
Fischer: Thanks to DADT repeal, we can ‘expect more instances of pedophilia’ in the military
On Wednesday’s edition of “Focal Point,” Bryan Fischer cited the arrest of a protocol officer at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida for allegedly trying to entice a 17-year-old boy into sexual activity to declare that, thanks to to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, we can “expect to see more instances of pedophilia now in the United States military.”
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News (USA)
Barney Frank on Mitt Romney: ‘Willing to trash minority groups for political advancement’
In a new video for the “Mitt Gets Worse” campaign, retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) speaks about his experiences with Mitt Romney and gives his opinion on how Mitt would “get worse” is elected President.
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Life
Celebrities mark Trevor Project Day to raise awareness for suicide prevention (Video)
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – To raise awareness of the organization’s life-saving programs and services, The Trevor Project is hosting The Trevor Project Day today, Thursday, Sept. 27, at its offices in West Hollywood, with high-profile guests such as Darren Criss, Jessica Lu, Kevin McHale, Missi Pyle, Zachary Quinto and others in attendance.
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Life
National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: When were you last tested?
ATLANTA — Today, September 27, is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — a day founded in 2008 to mark all that has been accomplished by the gay community in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to remember the quarter-million lovers and brothers that were lost, and to renew the community’s commitment to an AIDS-free future, according to the Greater than AIDS campaign.