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Commentary
Offensive ABC sitcom ‘Work It’ will fail simply because it’s not funny
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a controversy brewing concerning an upcoming ABC sitcom called “Work It.” “Work It” tells of two unemployed men so desperate that they dress as women to get jobs. Some members of the LGBTQ community have called the show offensive to the transgender community.
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple shares first kiss in historic Navy homecoming
In what has become a tradition at Navy homecomings, one sailor is chosen by raffle to be first off the ship to kiss a loved one — on Wednesday, for the first time, the reunited couple was same-sex.
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News (USA)
Hospital that denied visitation rights to lesbian partner rescinds decision
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman who was denied visitation rights with her lesbian partner at the Rolling Hills Psychiatric Hospital in Franklin has been allowed a special visit and will commence regular visits during hospital’s normal visitor’s day Sundays.
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Life
Jamaican opposition leader backs LGBT rights in ‘historic’ moment
In moment described as “historic” by activists, the Jamaican opposition leader has come out for LGBT rights during an election debate. Jamaicans will go to the polls on December 29 and People’s National Party leader Portia Simpson-Miller made the positive comments during an election debate yesterday with Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
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News (USA)
Would LGBT Americans be better off under President Hillary?
Would a President Hillary Clinton have made more progress on LGBT issues over the course of her first term as opposed to what we’ve seen under President Obama? The secretary of state certainly stole the spotlight on LGBT issues when she gave a high-profile speech in Geneva earlier this month calling for an end to […]
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Life
Newt Gingrich secures endorsement of anti-gay ‘family’ group he helped fund
Thrice-married Newt Gingrich has secured the endorsement of Don Wildmon, the founder of the vehemently anti-gay American Family Association. One of the cogs in Gingrich’s vast network of business enterprises and front groups, ReAL Action, has provided $125,000 to the AFA’s sister organization, American Family Association Action.
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News (World)
Report: Kenyan gay men trafficked as sex slaves to Gulf countries
A Kenyan gay magazine has exposed male sex trafficking between Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Identity magazine says that gay and bisexual Kenyans are being lured from universities with promises of jobs only to end up as sex slaves.
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News (USA)
Duluth passes resolution opposing constitutional ban on gay marriage
DULUTH, Minn. — In passing a resolution Monday, Duluth became the first city in Minnesota to take a stand against the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, which is slated to appear on the ballot for a statewide referendum vote in November 2012.
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Life
Gingrich’s message to gay Americans: Vote for Obama
OSKALOOSA, Iowa — At a campaign stop in Oskaloosa, Iowa on Tuesday, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich told a longtime resident of Oskaloosa that he should vote for President Obama rather than expect his support of gay Americans.
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Life
‘My name is Jeremy. It’s time for me to speak up.’
Sometimes we find ourselves in those situations where we can’t reveal who we are completely, where we can’t open ourselves up, and where we can’t speak up. It’s time for me to speak up. My name is Jeremy, I’m 17, …. and… I’m into dudes.
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Life
Daniel Lapin says gays should have been quarantined during AIDS crisis
Speaking Monday on WallBuilders Live, Daniel Lapin — the Religious Right’s favorite rabbi — not only tried to say that gay rights derived from the collapse of morality but also argued that it was “insane” that gays weren’t quarantined during the AIDS pandemic the 1980s.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts newspaper mocks Chaz Bono, transgender people
A Massachusetts newspaper is catching heat for mocking transgender celebrity Chaz Bono and a new state law prohibiting discrimination against gender identity.
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News (USA)
Poll: Utahns favor legal protection for LGBTQ individuals in employment, housing
A recent poll commissioned by Equality Utah — a Salt Lake-based civil rights organization focusing on equal rights and protections for LGBT Utahns and their families — found that a majority of those polled favored a statewide non-discrimination law that would make it illegal for someone to be fired from a job solely because they are LGBT.
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Life
‘Ex-Gay’ myth hits Caribbean: Newspaper ad declares ‘truth’ about gays
The ‘ex-gay’ religious movement has expanded beyond its American origins throughout the world. Now the same lies pushed by the same American “ex-gay” propagandists are finding an audience in the Caribbean.
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple files discrimination suit against Honolulu bed and breakfast
HONOLULU — Lambda Legal on Monday filed a discrimination lawsuit in the First Circuit Court of Hawaii on behalf of a lesbian couple rejected by a commercial business establishment, the Aloha Bed & Breakfast, because of the owner’s personal anti-gay beliefs.
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Life
Fischer: ‘Every homosexual represents a heightened security risk’
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer said on Focal Point Monday that gays and lesbians could endanger the military and represent a risk to the country’s security because of mental health problems in the gay community.
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News (USA)
McInerney sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing of gay classmate
VENTURA, Calif. — Brandon McInerney was sentenced Monday to 21 years in state prison for the execution style killing of openly gay classmate Lawrence King during a computer lab class three years ago.
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Commentary
Chuck Norris — the fraud who won’t stand up to real injustice
Chuck Norris is an action movie star — and a bad one. But he should stay that way. His forays into politics reveal his basic ignorance. Norris has penned a piece for the American Family Association whining about how the Obama Administration has declared war on religion.
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News (USA)
Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion
ATLANTA — The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled Augusta State University may expel a graduate student who refused to comply with graduate degree program requirements citing her Christian beliefs that homosexuality is immoral.
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Life
Bachmanns: No gay kids in our family, the Kinsey report is ‘a myth’
CLARION, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, stumping in Iowa with her husband Marcus on Sunday, dismissed a self-described “gay-friendly Iowan,” telling her that the Kinsey Report has “been a myth for several years.”