The opening ceremonies for the World Outgames in Montreal begin on Saturday. But preliminary events, including a human rights conference, have been under way in the city since Wednesday. From the moment you land in Montreal’s airport and pick up your luggage in the rainbow-swathed baggage retrieval area, you know the Outgames have arrived. The [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced July 19 it’s awarding $287 million in grants over five years to create an international network of scientists to speed up the development of an AIDS vaccine. The collaboration is critical to making HIV vaccine development more efficient, said the Gates Foundation’s Dr. Nicholas Hellmann. “Unfortunately, developing an [...]
TEN rebel firefighters who refused to carry out duties at a gay pride march will have to wait until next month to hear their fate, their union claims. The group, from the Cowcaddens station, had been due to face a disciplinary hearing at Strathclyde Fire and Rescue yesterday. They were reported by senior officers for [...]
Lance Bass, one of five members of the multimillion record–selling pop group ‘N Sync, has come out as gay. Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl are in a “very stable” relationship. Bass says he hid his sexuality and declined even to act on it because he feared disclosure would hamper ‘N Sync’s success and thus harm [...]
After a mixed bag of news of late for same-sex marriage supporters, three national gay rights groups are launching a $250,000 ad campaign today declaring their commitment to achieving marriage equality. The ads will run in 50 publications around the country, from The New York Times to Houston’s gay weekly, and are endorsed by 11 [...]
Recruiting efforts by large law firms for gay attorneys are on the rise. A robust legal market and declining law-school enrollment numbers are just part of the reason many large law firms are now searching out gay and minority attorneys. According to the Law School Admission Council, 4.6% fewer students applied to law schools in [...]
Officials in Missouri announced Tuesday that they have lifted regulations that automatically prevented gays and lesbians from becoming foster parents. But a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Social Services said it might still be difficult for gays to become foster parents despite the ban’s lifting. Deborah Scott said her department will consider the biological [...]
A day after calling gays “the wrong kind of people,” Kentucky state senator Richard Roeding continued his verbal barrage against gays, calling the Republican political group Log Cabin Republicans “a bunch of queers.” After learning that the state Log Cabin chapter had called for his resignation, the Northern Kentucky Republican used the derogatory term to [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, ending for another year a congressional debate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate in this fall’s mid-term elections. The 236–187 vote for the proposal to define marriage as a union of a man and a [...]
The first phase of the Connecticut freedom-to-marry case ended with a lower-court defeat for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) and their plaintiff couples. GLAD pledged to appeal, as expected, to the Connecticut Supreme Court. There, the justices will have the same question to address — not the usual checklist of benefits denied, [...]