ExxonMobil Shareholders Vote Down Gay-Inclusive Nondiscrimination Policy At an annual shareholders meeting that took place in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, ExxonMobil shareholders voted down a gay-inclusive...
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has partnered with the GLBT Community Center of Colorado and Credo Action to launch "Queer the Census.""Queer the Census" is an effort designed to highlight the importance of...
A step backward on human rights in Africa Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu decries the horrific state of affairs for Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) people in Africa. Tutu, an anti-apartheid...
Gay journalist Patrick Strudwick has launched a campaign to expose ex-gay therapists in the UK. The Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT) is the result of an undercover operation by Strudwick to expose...
The military will not rush this change. DADT will be removed from the armed services but it will be done in as slow and deliberate manner.Probably a study for a year, then phased in over two or three years....
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Notre Dame students continue protesting for Gay Rights after the University's student newspaper, The Observer, ran a cartoon earlier this month that advocated beating, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender...
As a decade draws to a close, a report prepared jointly by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and the evelyn & walter HAAS, JR. fund purportedly shows a 'Decade of Progress' on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and...
Bloomberg reports Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. According to Uganda's Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity,...
Dr. Qazi Rahman Queen Mary University of London's assistant professor in Cognitive Biology whose research interests include Cognitive Biology and the Psycho-biology of human sexual orientation, claims in Gay by...
Fort Lauderdale based criminal defense lawyer and member of the board of directors of NORML, Norm Kent's article On the Suicide of Mike Penner points out Why the Transgendered Need Civil Rights Protections. Mike...
A U.S. lesbian war deserter wins a key victory in asylum bid. Private Bethany Smith, who now goes by the name Skylar James, took her case to Federal Court in September after being denied asylum by the Immigration...
Human Rights Watch, in a letter, called on President Tadic of Serbia to defend the rights of all citizens. Currently the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) citizens are subject to violence and...
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The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced a national call to action on ENDA. The call came after the Human Rights Campaign confirmed the Committee on Education and Labor will vote on Wednesday, November 18,...
The Nation's largest doctors' group has joined efforts to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), the United States military policy term about homosexuality in the U.S. military mandated by federal law that...
The Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law analyzed newly released data by the U.S Census Bureau that offers the first demographic picture of same-sex couples. Advancing...