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Commentary
Exit, don’t enable the Roman Catholic Church
If there is one thing that irks me, it is having the Roman Catholic Church preach to me about sexual morality. It is a religious sect led by a virulently homophobic Pope that goes out of its way to trash my family. Yet, my family hasn’t spent a cent defending itself against nonexistent charges of child rape, while the Vatican has spent $2.5 billion on legal fees, prevention programs, and settlements relating to the sexual abuse of minors.
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Life
Reversing course: Prop 8 star witness now supports marriage equality
WASHINGTON – In a stunning reversal, the star witness against same-sex marriage at the Proposition 8 trial in California has come out in support of marriage equality.
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News (World)
Australian state government reverses same-sex civil union rights
BRISBANE, Australia — Conservative lawmakers in the parliament of the Australian state of Queensland have voted to redefine civil partnerships, downgrading them to the lessor class of “registered relationships,” and said they also plan to ban same-sex couples from having children through surrogacy.
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News (USA)
Illinois state attorneys refuse to defend state’s ban on same-sex marriage
CHICAGO — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez on Thursday announced that they will not Illinois’s 16-year-old ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Survey: Most Colorado schools not in compliance with school bullying law
DENVER — Most of Colorado’s school districts have yet to update their bullying policies to come into compliance with a 2011 state law protecting LGBT youth, a survey by the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization shows.
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News (USA)
Mullen to headline event celebrating anniversary of DADT repeal
WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who played a key role in the legislative repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is set to appear at an event celebrating the one-year anniversary of the end to the military’s gay ban.
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News (USA)
Illinois judge combines Lambda Legal, ACLU marriage equality lawsuits
A Cook County, Ill., judge on Thursday consolidated the two separate lawsuits representing 25 Illinois gay and lesbian couples asserting the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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Life
Elaine Donnelly: Gays ‘make other people feel like they are not welcome’ in the military
Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness, who supports the ban on gays in the military, accused the LGBT community of trying to “make other people feel like they are not welcome” in an interview Tuesday with Janet Parshall.
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News (USA)
New York lawmakers pass bill to crack down on cyber-bullying
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state legislature this week approved a bill that would require the state’s public schools to develop procedures to address complaints of email, texting and online harassment — also referred to as cyber-bullying.
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News (USA)
National gay conservatives group ‘GOProud’ endorses Mitt Romney
The Board of Directors of “GOProud,” the national organization of gay conservatives, voted Tuesday to endorse presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and said it was “prepared to commit significant resources” to ensure his victory.
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Life
New York Observer takes on media outing of gay celebrities
The New York Observer has a very interesting piece on Wednesday called “Outward Bound: Celebs Struggle To Keep Sexuality Secret(ish), But Media Make Mischief,” and in it, author Daniel D’Addario rounds up the usual glass closet suspects…
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News (USA)
Police arrest, identify suspects in anti-gay graffiti crime spree
ARLINGTON, Texas — Police in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday announced they have identified five suspects in connection with a crime spree earlier this month that included nearly a dozen incidents of anti-gay graffiti.
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Life
HRC Report: 2012 sees progress toward LGBT healthcare equality
The number of American hospitals striving to treat LGBT patients equally and respectfully is on the rise, according to a report released Tuesday by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation at a press conference with U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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Commentary
The reality of coalition, collaboration between the LGBT community and communities of color
In the past month, we have seen milestone after milestone in the march toward LGBT equality. But there is a key element of this progress that we should shine a light on. What for many seemed like a red light at the intersection of race, class, sexual orientation and gender identity has turned yellow — even green — as we see diverse groups strongly and publicly supporting each other across issues and working for civil rights — human rights — for all people.
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News (USA)
Nine U.S. senators to Harkin: Time to move on ENDA
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of nine senators is backing the idea of having the Senate panel with jurisdiction over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act advance the legislation to the floor by a committee vote.
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News (USA)
Florida school district settles anti-gay bullying complaint by former student
PALM COAST, Fla. — A Florida school district has settled a complaint filed against it with the U.S. Office of Civil Rights which alleged that the staff at Flagler Palm Coast High School allowed a gay former student to be bullied.
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News (USA)
Washington State: Poll shows majority support for same-sex marriage
SEATTLE, Wash. — A new statewide survey by Public Policy Polling finds that, for the first time in its Washington polling, a majority of the state’s voters support marriage equality for same-sex couples.
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News (USA)
University of Texas professor defends controversial gay parenting study
AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas associate professor of sociology is defending a study he led that made several claims of negative outcomes for children raised by gay and lesbian parents.
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News (World)
Israeli politician: Army must not enlist gays
JERUSALEM — In an interview broadcasted yesterday in the parliamentary Knesset Channel, Member of Knesset Uri Ariel from the right-wing National Union party said that he is against the Israeli army’s policy of enlisting LGBT people.
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News (USA)
New York teen left blinded in one eye following brutal, anti-gay assault
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn teenager was was left blind in one eye after being assaulted by bullies who shouted anti-gay epithets during an attack earlier this month at his middle school, according to the teen’s family