Page 2128
-
News (World)
Iceland’s gay prime minister marries longtime partner
Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has married her long-term partner, her office said on Monday, making her the world’s first national leader with a same-sex spouse.
-
News (World)
Russian police arrest activists for staging unsanctioned gay pride rally
Russian police on Saturday detained at least five gay rights activists in a public courtyard in St. Petersburg, allegedly for holding an unsanctioned gay pride rally reports AFP.
-
News (USA)
Shooting at San Francisco gay pride event leaves 1 dead, 2 injured
One man was fatally injured and two other people wounded in a shooting in San Francisco’s Castro District late Saturday night during the “Pink Saturday” gay pride events.
-
News (USA)
Judge OKs anti-gay evangelist to distribute bibles at Minnesota pride event
Anti-gay evangelist Brian Johnson roamed a Minneapolis park passing out bibles during Saturday’s Twin Cities Pride Festival after a federal judge ruled Friday that organizers could not ban him from the event to express his views against homosexuality.
-
News (USA)
Supreme Court rejects petition secrecy of anti-gay ballot initiative
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that gay marriage opponents do not have an automatic legal right to prevent public release of the names and addresses of the signers of a Washington state ballot measure favoring traditional marriage.
-
News (USA)
Obama hosts White House pride reception
President Obama hosted a reception at the White House to honor LGBT Pride Month, and vowed to push ahead with his gay rights agenda, assuring the audience that he remains committed to repealing DOMA and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
-
Life
Mike Huckabee on gay marriage: ‘Ick’
In a New Yorker magazine profile, , assessing his chances in the 2012 Presidential race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee expounded upon his opposition to gay marriage with this well considered prose: “We can get into the ick factor…”
-
News (USA)
Obama administration to expand family, medical leave benefits to same-sex parents
President Obama is taking another step to expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of same-sex partners, administration officials annoiunced Monday. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is scheduled to make the announcement on Wednesday that will require employers to allow gay […]
-
News (USA)
’8: The Mormon Proposition’ — In theaters, film focuses on Mormon efforts to pass Prop 8
The controversial film “8: The Mormon Proposition,” which harshly criticizes the Mormon Church for campaigning in favor or California’s ban on same-sex marriage, opened in select theaters Friday. Focused on the 2008 passage of California’s Proposition 8, Director Reed Cowan’s documentary has struck a nerve with accusations that a “Mormon front group purchased passage” of […]
-
Life
Memphis church bans gay softballers, says it won’t condone their ‘deviant’ lifestyle
A softball coach in Memphis says she has been banned from a local church softball league because she is gay. Jana Jacobson said officials from Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, TN, disqualified her team from competing in their adult women’s softball league because it would send a message to their congregation that they condone her […]
-
Life
Eminem speaks out in favor of marriage equality
Rapper Eminem, famed for his homophobic lyrics, appears to have had a change of heart and has declared his support of gay marriage — cynically anyway — saying “everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable.” In an interview with The New York Times Magazine that will be published this weekend, the rapper said […]
-
News (USA)
Court hears closing arguments in landmark case challenging Prop 8 ban on gay marriage
Closing arguments were presented in court today in the landmark trial challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the final opportunity for attorneys on both sides to influence a federal judge in deciding the fate of California’s voter approved ban on gay marrige. “This case is about marriage and equality,” plaintiffs attorney Ted Olson told the […]
-
News (USA)
Pelosi: no vote on ENDA this year until Congress repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
There will be no vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) until Congress completes legislative action on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” according to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). During her weekly press conference on Friday, Pelosi told the Washington Blade that lawmakers “still have to finish ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” before moving on to […]
-
Life
Attackers shout anti-gay slurs, assault Vancouver gay couple
Two Vancouver men say they were punched repeatedly by two assailants who shouted anti-gay slurs at them on the doorstep of their downtown condo building Saturday night. Peter Regier and his partner David Holtzman were returning home from a concert and found two men drinking outside their building, one of them urinating near the door, […]
-
News (USA)
Trial begins in gay rights dispute between Boy Scouts and city of Philadelphia
Jury selection got under way Monday in a gay rights case that could settle a long-running dispute between local Boy Scouts and the city of Philadelphia. At issue is whether the local scouts group, the Cradle of Liberty Council, should be allowed to stay rent-free in its city-owned headquarters, despite the Boy Scouts of America’s […]
-
News (USA)
Illinois Treasurer expands gay partner benefits for department employees
With six months left in his four-year term, Illinois state Treasurer (and candidate for U.S. Senate) Alexi Giannoulias signed an executive order on Sunday extending family-leave benefits to gay and lesbian employees in domestic partnerships. The new policy will allow gay and lesbian employees of his office to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid […]
-
News (USA)
Puerto Rico creates special committee to investigate hate crimes
Puerto Rico’s Attorney General has announced the creation of special committee to investigate hate crimes in the island territory, where advocates say gay and transgender people are the victims of an “epidemic” of violence. The announcement was greeted by cheers from activists who complain the government has yet to invoke 2002 legislation establishing harsher penalties […]
-
News (USA)
Two marines arrested in beating of gay man in Savannah
Two Marines were arrested and jailed Saturday on misdemeanor battery charges after they allegedly beat up a gay man in Savannah, Georgia. According to the Savannah Morning News, police responded to a call around 3:45 a.m. that an unconscious man was on the ground. At the scene, police found 26-year-old Kiren Daly motionless with friends […]
-
News (World)
Iceland’s parliament unanimously approves gay marriage
Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance, reports Reuters. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between […]
-
News (USA)
Advisory panel recommends upholding ban on blood donations from gay men
A government health committee Friday voted against rescinding the ban on gay men donating blood but also called for new research on alternative policies, citing flaws in the current rules. The Health and Human Services Committee, in its recommendations, noted that current policy permits some potentially high-risk blood donations and prevents some possible low-risk donations. […]