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News (USA)
California Supreme Court: Prop 8 proponents can defend gay marriage ban
SAN FRANCISCO — In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the California Supreme Court said that Proposition 8 sponsors have the legal right to defend the state’s ban on same sex marriage.
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Commentary
‘They publicly prayed for my death’
“I spent sixteen years as a fundamental evangelical Christian, trying to get God to fix me. I studied theology and Biblical counseling for three years in the hopes of discovering what I was doing wrong that was keeping God from answering my prayers to make me straight….”
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News (USA)
California Supreme Court to rule on ‘standing’ issue in Proposition 8 appeal
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice that it will rule Thursday whether proponents of California’s Proposition 8 have “legal standing” to defend the 2008 voter-approved law ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Campaign to defeat anti-gay marriage amendment in NC takes shape
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Meeting over the weekend with more than 400 of their supporters from across the state, officials with the statewide LGBT advocacy and education group, Equality North Carolina, previewed their official campaign to defeat an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment in May 2012.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts Senate OKs transgender rights bill; Governor promises to sign
BOSTON — The Transgender Equal Rights Bill — which had passed the Massachusetts House on Tuesday night with a 95-58 vote — cleared the state’s Senate on Wednesday with Senators approving the measure on a voice vote with no opposition.
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News (World)
South Africa denies Congolese albino gay man asylum
A gay, albino Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugee has been refused asylum in South Africa in what advocates say is an increasing pattern of refusals for LGBT asylum seekers.
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News (USA)
Transgender woman arrested after exposing her breasts at DMV protest
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — A transgender woman was arrested after she exposed her breasts in public in a protest against a local driver’s license office that refused to accept her surgeon’s letter confirming her partial surgery and her Social Security status as a woman.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts House passes transgender equality rights bill
BOSTON — In a late night session Tuesday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed the Transgender Equal Rights bill without amendment. The approved version added “gender identity” to employment, education, housing, and credit non-discrimination law, as well as to hate crimes law.
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News (USA)
10-year-old girl hangs herself after teasing which included gender-based bullying
DANVILLE, Ill. — A Vermilion County, Ill., family is in mourning after discovering that their daughter, 10-year-old Ashlynn Conner was found dead hanging in her closet in what the local coroner, Peggy Johnson, described as an apparent suicide.
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Life
Log Cabin chapter head blasts gay blogger over remarks about reality star
The head of the D.C. chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans on Tuesday criticized prominent gay blogger Joe Jervis for publicly questioning claims by reality star Taylor Garrett that he has twice been the victim of anti-gay attacks due to his association with conservative political commentator Ann Coulter.
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Life
Matt Barber: DOMA will keep kids from becoming gay and getting AIDS
According to Matt Barber: DOMA is needed to protect children on the grounds that kids who are raised in same-sex households are more likely to identify as gay, and gay men are more likely to get HIV … so, apparently DOMA is necessary in order to keep kids from getting AIDS, or something…
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News (USA)
Catholic bishops vow to defend religious liberty, fight gay marriage
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops on Monday vowed to defend their religious liberty, and in calling the growing acceptance of gay marriage an attempt to marginalize their faith, launched a new website aimed at promoting traditional, heterosexual marriage.
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Commentary
Why I get a nagging feeling every time I hear the phrase ‘religious liberty’
I almost understand the argument of “religious liberty.” But then comes that nagging feeling in the back of my mind that just won’t go away – the feeling that “religious liberty” is just another way of saying “allowed discrimination” and that some folks will use the phrase to deflect attention from the victims of this “allowed discrimination.”
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Commentary
LGBT parents continue their struggle for acceptance, equality
It seems one of the final frontiers in the struggle for equality for LGBT families is teaching the rest of the world that we are incredible parents, and that our families not only deserve equality, but we are suffering without it.
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News (USA)
IL Catholic Charities drops lawsuit, will abandon child care to avoid serving LGBT parents
Three Roman Catholic dioceses have dropped their lawsuit against the state of Illinois, agreeing to transfer more than 1,000 foster care children and staff to other agencies in their regions to avoid placing children in the homes of gay and lesbian parents.
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News (USA)
ACLU to represent gay teen whose attack was captured on video, posted to Facebook
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on Monday announced it would represent the family of a Chillicothe, Ohio gay teen who was assaulted last month because of his sexual orientation. The brutal attack captured national attention when a video of the assault was later posted to Facebook.
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News (USA)
Coalition launches statewide effort to legalize gay marriage in Washington
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A broad, statewide coalition of organizations, congregations, unions and business associations came together on Monday to announce the formation of Washington United for Marriage – a coalition that will work to obtain civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Washington state in 2012.
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News (USA)
Iowa baker says no to lesbians’ wedding cake because she’s a Christian
DES MOINES, Iowa — A lesbian couple in Iowa — where gay marriage is legal — was caught off guard when the baker they approached for their wedding cake told them that she is Christian, and because of her convictions couldn’t bake their cake.
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News (World)
St. Petersburg latest Russian region to propose anti-gay law
Two regions of Russia – Arkhangelsk and Ryazan – have passed laws banning what they call gay “propoganda” — laws that have been deemed constitutional by Russian courts despite the chilling of free speech and the attack on LGBT organizing, and ability to protest that they represent. Now the St. Petersburg region wants to introduce a similar law.
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News (USA)
Marriage equality activists raising the stakes from coast to coast
A victory for DOMA repeal in the Senate Judiciary Committee, but now it faces even greater hurdles in the full Senate. An election night victory in Iowa means marriage is safe, for now; but polling in Minnesota shows cause for alarm. Activists raise the stakes in Washington, Maryland, Oregon, and Maine.