“We don’t want to be the 700 Club of gay news,” Jason Bellini says as he sips on a Diet Pepsi in the cafeteria of the CBS Broadcast Center. “The audience wants us to be credible. There are plenty of other outlets out there doing advocacy coverage.” Bellini, 30, is the anchor of CBS News [...]
The leader of the Union of Reform Judaism spoke at antigay televangelist Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on Wednesday and called for the acceptance and support of gay and lesbian couples, the JTA news service reports. “Gay Americans pose no threat to their friends, neighbors, or coworkers, and when two people make a lifelong commitment to [...]
Rosie O’Donnell is staging a groundbreaking return to daytime TV as she reportedly joins the opinionated roundtable of women on ABC’s The View. O’Donnell would replace Meredith Vieira, who is succeeding the departing Katie Couric as cohost of NBC’s The Today Show. During the years of her own successful talk show, O’Donnell was dubbed the [...]
Gays and lesbians in Israel have been invited to participate in Holocaust memorial services for the first time. Two members of Jerusalem Open House, the LGBT center, placed a wreath in the name of the gay community at the foot of the Warsaw Ghetto rebellion monument at Yad Vashem, the memorial to the millions who [...]
A federal judge with the U.S. district court for the district of Massachusetts on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by 12 service members challenging the military’s antigay “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The ban, established in 1993 under the Clinton administration, prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires [...]
A federal judge with the U.S. district court for the district of Massachusetts on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by 12 service members challenging the military’s antigay “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The ban, established in 1993 under the Clinton administration, prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but requires [...]
(New York City) A swath of organizations including nearly 200 religious groups, congregations and clergy have filed friend of the court briefs supporting same-sex marriage in New York State while Catholics have joined evangelical groups in demanding a federal constitutional amendment barring gay marriage. New York State’s highest court – the Court of Appeal – [...]
NEW YORK—A prominent conservative Jewish leader last week called on his branch of Judaism to lift its ban on gay rabbis, the New York Times reported. Arnold M. Eisen, a Stanford University professor newly named to lead the Jewish Theological Seminary, said he hoped to see out gays admitted to the institution, which is at [...]
Sen. John McCain’s recent reconciliation with the anti-gay televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell could impede the fight against a federal constitutional amendment on gay marriage, some political observers fear. McCain, an Arizona Republican and presumed GOP presidential candidate for 2008, previously opposed moves to amend the Constitution to block states from marrying gay couples. But recent [...]
At a meeting of the Palm Beach County School Board on April 5, school board chair Tom Lynch referred to gay students as “a protected species.” The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council has demanded that Lynch apologize for the remark, saying that it dehumanizes gay people by implying that they are a separate species [...]