Queers United urging boycott of Dr. Phil show

Claiming that Dr. Phil has been on a crusade to pathologize queer identities with shows about "gender confused children", "experimental bisexuality", and by giving a platform to "ex-gay therapy experts" from Focus...

Community leaders recall Kennedy's impact on equality for LGBT

Community leaders recall Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy's impact on equality for LGBT Americans. Chai Feldblum worked with Senator Kennedy on ENDA, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to prohibit...

Social institutions contribute to homosexual youth suicide

"Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit." Erik Erikson Social...

THE MILKING OF THE CASH COW vs. US HEALTH CARE REFORM

Playing The Health Care Game... We have all watched in amazement as the defaced photos of President Obama as Hitler held by wild eye'd crazy people screaming loudly with no more of a purpose than to disrupt and to...

ELCA adopts social statement on human sexuality

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), currently the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States with over 4 million members adopts social statement on human sexuality, opening its ministry to...

Exploring the Burqa as a Metaphor

"The obsession with burqa, face-veil, niqab, hijab, parda has very little to do with religious beliefs and everything to do with the patriarchal, tribal, feudal mindset and value system," says The Ajoka Theatre...

Aspen Institute hosts FOCAS 2009

I'm sorry to be missing this event.  Plenty of good conversation going on. "he Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, with Senior Sponsorship from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, present FOCAS 2009 August 16-19 on the theme Of the Press: Models...

Self-sufficient Schools Pay their Own Way

Education is recognized as critical for development and improving people’s lives. Universal primary education is a Millennium Development Goal and countries are now allocating more funds for primary education...

Faulkner's disappearance renews debate on 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

The disappearance of 23 year old medical student Bryce Faulkner has renewed the debate on 'Ex-Gay' Therapy. "The last person to have heard from Faulkner was Travis Swanson, a man who claims to be his boyfriend....

Greco's murderers arraigned in Niagara County Court

Niagara County group home worker Renee Greco's murderers, Anthony J. Allen and Robert J. Thousand, were arraigned on murder charges in Niagara County Court. Lawyers for the two teens entered not guilty pleas on...

'Agents of Change' Receive 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom

In a ceremony held today in the East Room of the White House, President and Mrs. Obama participated in a ceremony for the 2009 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Obama presented the 2009...

The Fantastic Four

If you watched the funeral procession of the late President Corazon Aquino, you would have noticed the four honor guards who stood beside the former President’s coffin atop the flatbed trailer truck. The family of former President Corazon Aquino will personally thank and...

Verdict In: APA Rejects Sexual Orientation Change Efforts

The American Psychological Association rejects sexual orientation change efforts. In fact, "practitioners should avoid telling clients they can change from gay to straight." " There is "no evidence that sexual...

'Season of Fasting' ends, Church lifts de facto ban on gays

At the General Convention held in Anaheim, California in early July the 'Season of Fasting' at the expense of the vocations of gays and lesbians in the Episcopal Church came to an end. Episcopalians took steps...

Israel's leaders stress tolerance after gay youth center attack

In the wake of a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay youth center, Israel's leaders stress tolerance after a masked gunman sprayed bullets into the basement meeting room at the center and local police pressed a manhunt for...
 

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