Nine years ago gay and lesbian activists made a decision. To get a non-discrimination bill they desperately wanted past New York’s state legislature, they cut out protections for their transgender allies. The law passed, but a bitter rift in the state’s LGBT community was born — one that is still being mended. Gay and lesbian [...]
VENTURA, Calif. — A teen accused of killing a gay classmate at a Ventura County junior high school will be retried on a murder charge after a first trial in which jurors could not decide on the degree of guilt. Prosecutors on Wednesday announced their intention to pursue a murder charge in adult court against [...]
Lifetime has a way with drama. From recent movies like ”Girl Fight,” about a group of teenage girls who beat the crap out of each other, to the classic”Mother May I Sleep With Danger,” starring Tori Spelling, the network knows a thing or two about serving up can’t miss guilty pleasure television. So, who better than [...]
Today, the White House made formal what Metro Weekly first reported on Sept. 23: Gautam Raghavan, the former deputy White House liaison at the Department of Defense, is the new LGBT liaison in the White House Office of Public Engagement. White House spokesman Shin Inouye told Metro Weekly today in a statement, “The White House is pleased to [...]
Rachel Maddow revealed her conflicted feelings about gay marriage in a new cover interview with the Hollywood Reporter. The interview was published Wednesday. In it, Maddow said that, though she and her longtime partner, artist Susan Mikula, knew many people who had gotten married, the two didn’t “feel any urgency” to join them. The reason, she [...]
The controversial “Is My Son Gay?” app has been pulled from the Android Market, according to LGBT advocacy group AllOut.org. Neither the English version nor the original French version (“Mon Fils Est-Il Gay?”) of the app currently appears in the Android Market, leading AllOut.org to send out an email declaring victory over an application they viewed as “being homophobic [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) is a proud father of a newborn baby, making him the first openly gay parent in the U.S. Congress. On Friday, Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, sent out an announcement about the arrival of their son, Caspian Julius, who is 8 pounds, 12 ounces. “Baby and parents are [...]
WASHINGTON — (AP/The Huffington Post) Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says that he should not have stayed silent after the audience at a recent GOP debate booed a gay soldier. The Georgia businessman told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that it would have been “appropriate” for him to have defended the soldier. None of the [...]
MOSCOW — Russian police say they have detained dozens of anti-gay protesters and gay rights activists during a gay pride rally in central Moscow. Saturday’s protest was one of the few gay rights events sanctioned by authorities. In recent years, several attempts to hold gay pride marches in Moscow and other Russian cities have been [...]
WASHINGTON — The 15th annual fundraising dinner for the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday was different from past events for one big reason: Openly gay active-duty servicemembers were able to wear their military uniforms without any fear of retribution. Ret. Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, a gay veteran who has been an outspoken supporter of LGBT [...]
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