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News (USA)
DADT discharges still discriminate; trio of U.S. Senators want problem fixed
In a letter Tuesday to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, three U.S.Senators have asked the Secretary to use his authority to streamline the process for those discharged under the repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law in order to expedite discharge paperwork changes and upgrades.
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News (USA)
Gay Illinois State University student says attack was a hate crime
NORMAL, Ill. — An openly-gay Illinois State University student is recovering from several injuries he suffered from what he said was an anti-gay hate-inspired attack in front of his apartment near the Normal, Ill. campus early Saturday morning.
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Commentary
After decades of pressure, ENDA continues to languish — What gives?
After decades of pressure, ENDA continues to languish. There was some real optimism back in 2010 that it would pass during the lame duck session after the November elections. Everyone knew that Republicans would be big winners in that election, and so many in the community held on to a slim hope that departing Democratic lawmakers would find the courage to support the bill … Now, with marriage issues on ballots from Maine to Washington, we’ll see more progress on marriage in 2012 than we ever have in any prior year. But when it comes to employment, it seems like we’ve stagnated…
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News (USA)
EEOC ruling on transgender rights triggers new call for ENDA
LGBT rights supporters are continuing to press for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, following a ruling this week from a U.S. agency expanding non-discrimination protections under existing law to include transgender workers.
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News (USA)
Colorado civil union bill moves one step closer to House showdown
DENVER — The Colorado State Senate on Wednesday gave its initial blessing to a bill that would establish civil unions here.
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News (World)
Gay Russian teen imprisoned in drug rehab for coming out is released
MOSCOW — A Russian teen has been released from the Marshak drug rehabilitation facility after spending 12 days in the institution after being forcibly admitted by his traditionalist father, who was angered when he came out as openly gay earlier this month. Ivan Kharchenko, 16, was released after friends and supporters staged an improvised siege […]
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News (USA)
Karger’s ‘sexy frisbee’ campaign video yanked by YouTube as ‘inappropriate’
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A campaign video by openly gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger — that ended with a brief kiss by two men on a California beach, was removed by YouTube late yesterday because it violated YouTube’s community policies.
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Life
Blogger uncovers ‘secret’ Facebook group aimed at disseminating anti-gay information
LGBT activist and blogger Alvin McEwen this week uncovered a “secret” Facebook group — whose memberships reads like a “who’s who” of anti-gay activists — aimed at promoting and disseminating anti-gay information through websites, including Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
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News (USA)
California Senate committee advances bill to limit reparative therapy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legislation designed protect LGBT minors from what critics charge is harmful and ineffective ex-gay therapy, advanced through a California state Senate Committee on Monday.
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News (USA)
GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger to air groundbreaking ad featuring gay kiss
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Fred Karger, the first openly gay Republican presidential candidate in American politics, is making history again by releasing the first-ever campaign ad containing a gay kiss.
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News (USA)
In CNN appearance, Bryan Fischer rails against the ‘homosexual lobby’
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer went on CNN today to debate R. Clarke Cooper of the Log Cabin Republicans over the Romney campaigns’ hiring of Richard Grenell, who is openly gay….
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News (USA)
EEOC ruling protects transgender workers from discrimination
In a historic ruling, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined that job bias against transgender employees on the basis of gender identity amounts to sex discrimination under existing law.
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News (USA)
Colorado searches for civil union sponsor, early voting begins on NC marriage ban
Civil unions head to the Senate in Colorado, but nobody seems to be quite sure who’s going to sponsor the bill once it reaches the House. Early voting’s begun in North Carolina, just in time for a big TV ad buy starting this week. And the bumpy road to repealing Ohio’s marriage ban just got bumpier…
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Life
Parents of gay Mormons tell their kids, ‘It Gets Better’
A group of Mormon parents are defending their gay children in a new “It Gets Better” video which challenges the Mormon church’s disapproval of homosexuality and same-sex relationships.
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Life
Lesbian den mother ousted by Boy Scouts speaks out at GLAAD awards
Jennifer Tyrrell, the volunteer den mother to her son’s Cub Scout chapter who was ousted from her position because she is gay, spoke out against the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay discrimination at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday.
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News (USA)
President Obama remembers gay Holocaust victims
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday spoke at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to mark Yom HaShoah, or the Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during his speech the president referred directly to the homosexual victims of Nazi persecution.
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News (USA)
Sioux City Journal devotes front page to bullying following gay teen’s suicide
The Sioux City Journal on Sunday devoted its front page to the topic of bullying, a response to the recent suicide of Kenneth Weishuhn, a 14-year-old gay teen who had been bullied at school after coming out to his friends.
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News (USA)
PFAW report examines the anti-gay lobby’s ‘pro-bullying agenda’
As students around the country participated Friday’s “Day of Silence” to show solidarity with bullied LGBT children and teens, anti-gay activists continued to step up their efforts to prevent schools from protecting bullied students.
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Life
Tony Perkins laments that ‘Mike and Ike’ are gay and ‘sexualizing candy’
As part of a new advertising campaign, “Mike and Ike” have announced that they are divorcing so Ike can pursue a career in the arts and Mike can fulfill his dream of becoming a “music legend,” but FRC president Tony Perkins is upset that Mike and Ike are a gay couple and said they are sexualizing candy.
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Life
‘Hunger Games’ star Josh Hutcherson presented Vanguard Award by GLAAD
Josh Hutcherson, an LGBT equality advocate, actor, and star of “The Hunger Games,” on Saturday became the youngest person to receive the prestigious Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles.