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News (USA)
Lesbian chef awarded $1.6 million from ‘pray away the gay’ boss
NEW YORK — A jury in New York has award $1.6 million to to a lesbian chef who accused restaurateur Edward Globokar of forcing her to participate in prayer meetings at Mary Ann’s, a Mexican restaurant in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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News (USA)
Ohio AG certifies petition for marriage equality amendment
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Tuesday announced that he had certified the petition for the proposed constitutional amendment that would repeal the state’s existing ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Ballot measure to protect LGBT people in Anchorage appears to have failed
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Voters in Anchorage on Tuesday rejected a proposed ordinance that would have added would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Anchorage Equal Rights Initiative.
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Life
Trump overrules rejection of transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant
U.S. businessman Donald Trump, owner of the Miss Universe Organization, on Tuesday overruled a decision by pageant officials, and said a transgender contestant will be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada competition.
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News (USA)
Chicago’s LGBT Howard Brown Health Center to repay feds $715K
CHICAGO — The Howard Brown Health Center, a nationally recognized LGBT health care organization, on Tuesday announced it will repay $715,000 to three separate federal agencies to settle a claim that the clinic improperly used research grant monies.
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News (World)
Liberian anti-gay group distributes ‘hit list’ on country’s LGBT people
MONROVIA, Liberia — An extremist anti-gay group in the west African nation of Liberia distributed fliers this past weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and said that those involved in promoting gay rights “should not be given space to get a gulp of air.”
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News (USA)
72 House lawmakers to Obama: Sign ENDA executive order
WASHINGTON — A group of 72 U.S. House members are calling on President Obama to take administrative action to institute federal non-discrinination protections for LGBT people in the workplace.
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News (USA)
Lambda Legal files lawsuit against Ohio school on behalf of gay student
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Lambda Legal on Tuesday filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio against a Waynesville, Ohio high school on behalf of an openly gay student who was threatened with suspension for wearing a t-shirt containing the message “Jesus is not a Homophobe.”
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News (World)
Irish Catholic Church investigating how gay porn showed up in priest’s presentation
The Roman Catholic Church is investigating how a priest accidentally displayed pornographic gay images to parents of children receiving First Communion.
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Life
Transgender contestant may be allowed back into Miss Universe pageant
A transgender beauty pageant contestant who was disqualified last week from the Miss Universe Canada competition after the organizers discovered that she had undergone surgery to become a woman, may be allowed to re-enter the competition if she can prove she meets the “legal gender recognition requirements,” pageant organizers announced Monday.
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News (USA)
Five gay, binational couples file suit challenging Defense of Marriage Act
NEW YORK — Five lesbian and gay couples on Monday filed suit today in the Eastern District of New York, challenging Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevents lesbian and gay American citizens from sponsoring their spouses for green cards.
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Life
Harvey: Top 10 reasons Christian kids should skip school on ‘Day of Silence’
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Linda Harvey, the suburban Columbus housewife who has led a campaign aimed at stamping out what she terms “sin-affirming pro-homosexuality activism” is once again this year taking aim at the GLSEN sponsored “Day of Silence.”
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News (USA)
Poll: 60 percent of N.C. voters oppose constitutional ban on gay marriage
ELON, N.C. — A Elon University Poll released Monday found that six out of ten persons in North Carolina would oppose an amendment to the state constitution that prevents any same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships or civil unions.
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News (USA)
SPLC condemns House Republicans’ intervention in disabled veteran’s case
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Monday condemned efforts by House Republicans to prevent a decorated 12-year U.S. Army veteran and other married gay and lesbian veterans from receiving the same disability benefits provided to their married heterosexual counterparts.
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Commentary
Ex-gay group seeks to infiltrate schools during ‘Day of Silence’
The organization Parents and Friends of Ex-Gay’s and Gays (PFOX) has decided that GLSEN’s annual Day of Silence is the perfect opportunity for their supporters to pass around flyers promoting “ex-gay” therapy … such is the tactic of organizations like PFOX. Instead of providing an environment where LGBT students can feel supported and free to be themselves, they are instead spreading the message that “for many youth, homosexual attraction develops due to traumatic experiences, such as sexual abuse.
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Life
True LGBT Story: Brooks Smith, ‘I’m from Charlotte, N.C.’
In this “I’m From Driftwood” video story, Brooks Smith comes out to his mom, a therapist — which leads to some awkward, uncomfortable and possibly inappropriate questions.
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News (USA)
Federal judge declines to reinstate Georgia high school student president
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A federal judge on Friday declined to reinstate a high school student council president who claimed he was removed from position after introducing an LGBT-friendly prom resolution, citing evidence the removal may have been for other offenses.
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News (USA)
Seattle gay man’s email campaign hopes to discourage support for marriage ban
A Seattle gay man has embarked on a personal letter writing campaign, contacting Washington residents who backed a failed 2009 measure that sought to overturn the state’s “everything but marriage” civil unions law, in hopes that his story might discourage them from supporting this year’s effort to overturn the recently passed marriage equality law.
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Commentary
Holy Wars are not about traditional human values of freedom and equality
You can hold all the traditional values you want, but nothing will make those values rational, sane or relevant to reality, if they have been born of superstition. Sadly, in the eyes of the religious conformists, it seems that rational values are non-traditional. The upsurge in violence and intimidation against LGBTQ people and other minorities is not just physical, it is soul destroying.
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Commentary
Marriage vs. full LGBT equality the focus of media summit
While it is easy to say that hundreds of thousands of people would benefit from marriage equality, it is also true that many of those people already live in places where most of the heavy lifting has been done and they have secured nondiscrimination laws, have working LGBT health clinics, a community center and a safe place for LGBT youth? But what about the vast majority of LGBT people in this nation who don’t have any protections from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations?