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Life
‘In the Life’ debuts groundbreaking episode on transgender youth
The award-winning news magazine “In the Life” this month will debut “Becoming Me,” featuring eight families with transgender and gender non-conforming children ranging in ages from 5 to 25.
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Commentary
Calling all Black people: NOM wants to use you
Black folks, this is a message for you: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the country’s preeminent group fighting against same-sex marriage, really, really likes you. They even want to make some of you famous! Have NOM’s principal leaders, former president Maggie Gallagher and current leader Brian S. Brown, stood up for African Americans before? Well, not so much. But it turns out that they’ve decided that you’re actually very important.
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Life
Incriminating photo surfaces, reported to be of gay men arrested on cruise ship
An incriminating photograph has surfaced, reportedly of the two men on an Atlantis gay cruise who were arrested earlier this month and accused of openly having sex on the boat while docked in the Roseau port of Dominica.
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News (USA)
Pelosi, Hoyer rebuke Boehner for DOMA defense in veteran case
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders are continuing to criticize Speaker John Boehner for defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court and accuse him of going beyond his existing authority in defense of the anti-gay law ahead of his planned intervention in a lesbian veteran’s litigation against the statute.
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News (USA)
Chicago launches LGBT health action plan
CHICAGO — The Chicago Department of Public Health unveiled a new LGBT health strategy to community leaders and advocates Friday as part of the city’s Healthy Chicago initiative.
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News (USA)
Nebraska football coach under fire for opposing non-discrimination ordinance
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska’s only openly gay elected official is calling for the termination of University of Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown after he testified against Omaha’s proposed ordinance to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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News (USA)
Mitt Romney’s PAC secretly donated $10,000 to anti-gay NOM
WASHINGTON — Documents sent to the Human Rights Campaign and released Friday reveal that Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney confidentially donated $10,000 to the National Organizational for Marriage via the Alabama chapter of his political action committee, “Free and Strong America.”
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Life
The GLAAD Wrap: ‘Bully’ film opens, Matt Bomer on ‘Glee,’ Lambda literary awards
Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBT-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend.
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News (USA)
More pressure on Obama to bar workplace discrimination
WASHINGTON — Supporters of an executive order barring discrimination against LGBT federal workers were buoyed this week by the results of a new poll showing that 73 percent of Americans support such a measure.
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News (USA)
‘Gay? Fine by me’ t-shirts gain student support at Maine high school
BRUNSWICK, Maine — When a high school math teacher hung a t-shirt containing the message, “gay? fine by me” in her classroom, she was expecting it might elicit some reactions, but was surprised when dozens of students said they wanted a t-shirt like it of their own.
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News (World)
Russian lawmakers consider bill prohibiting ‘gay propaganda’
MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are considering a bill that would impose fines for spreading gay “propaganda” among minors, a measure that is similar to legislation adopted in February in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city.
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Life
Carson Daly issues apology for homophobic jokes on radio broadcast
Television and radio personality Carson Daly on Wednesday issued an apology for several homophobic jokes he made on his radio broadcast earlier in the day while referencing an recent incident aboard a Jet Blue flight where passengers had to restrain and unstable pilot who suffered a mid-air meltdown.
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Life
Matt Barber: There is ‘no evidence’ of anti-LGBT violence, discrimination
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber once again is trying to deny reality by arguing that there is “no evidence” of violence against the LGBT community.
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News (USA)
Boehner appoints NOM co-founder to commission on religious freedom
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday appointed Robert George, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the National Organization for Marriage, to the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, which, according to the Commission’s chairman, addresses “the challenges of religious extremism, intolerance, and repression throughout the world.”
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News (USA)
Anchorage advocacy group responds to anti-transgender ad campaign
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Supporters of a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Anchorage Equal Rights Initiative on Thursday released a response ad to the opposition group’s depiction of an offensive and distorted cartoon ads of gay and transgender individuals.
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News (USA)
Victim in D.C. attack: ‘I remember being kicked, called faggot’
WASHINGTON — A 29-year-old gay man spoke to the Washington Blade on Tuesday through jaws wired shut to facilitate the healing of facial injuries brought about by a brutal beating that extended over several streets near his home in Columbia Heights on March 12.
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News (USA)
Kansas House Republicans pass bill that OKs anti-gay discrimination
TOPEKA, Kansas — The Republican controlled Kansas state House on Wednesday evening passed a bill that would effectively legalese anti-gay discrimination based on religious objections.
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News (USA)
Political ad claims daycare centers would be forced to hire ‘transvestites’
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Ad new advertisement by opponents of a proposed ordinance to extend anti-discrimination legal protections to gay and transgender people in Anchorage is being called offensive and misleading by stating that day care centers would be forced to hire “transvestites” or face jail time.
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Life
Rick Santorum to young bowler: ‘Friends don’t let friends use pink balls’
At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin on Wednesday, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball, “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera.”
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Life
Gay Chilean man who suffered brutal attack dies after 24 days in coma
SANTIAGO, Chile — Daniel Zamudio-Vera, an openly gay Chilean man who spent 24 days in a medically-induced coma following a brutal attack March 3 by members of a suspected neo-Nazi group, has died. He was 24 years old.