The American Civil Liberties Union claims a Florida Panhandle school kept students from having rainbow stickers on their notebooks, suppressing their right to free speech. A lawsuit against Ponce de Leon High School was filed Thursday in federal court. A message was left with the school’s administration. The ACLU says the school told them any [...]
Hundreds of same-sex couples from throughout Oregon braved snowy mountain passes and rainy Portland streets to protest a court ordered delay in implementing the state’s domestic partnership law.
The campaign of leading Republican presidential hopeful and U.S. senator John McCain launched an automatic mass-telephone call in Florida that the Human Rights Campaign is calling offensive, according to an HRC press release. The Arizona senator’s campaign has set up a call targeting his main rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, on social issues such [...]
The top three Democratic presidential candidates are fairly equal in their level of support of equal rights for LGBT people, according to a story in The New York Times. Although none of the candidates support same-sex marriage, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards are in favor of same-sex civil unions, a transgender-inclusive ENDA, and [...]
New Mexico’s house of representatives passed a bill Thursday that would permit domestic partnerships for gay and straight couples. The measure, proposed by former presidential candidate and current governor Bill Richardson, will give registered unmarried couples the same rights and benefits as married couples, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. The vote was 33–31 along [...]
Gay.com versus PrideDating.com Gay.com versus PrideDating.com? You might be surprised at the outcome… So this is clearly David vs. Goliath. PrideDating.com, a new gay dating site versus the mighty Gay.com. Clearly gay.com wins right??? Well, maybe not – read on: The problem with gay.com, who I personally love in many ways, is that it focuses [...]
As Gay-rights activists observe the presidential campaign and the rest of the electoral landscape, their high hopes often are mixed with frustration. Even as they expect to support whichever Democrat gets the presidential nomination, many activists are disappointed that the three leading contenders rarely mention gay-rights topics unless responding to a question. “They don’t want [...]
The shameful Fox News host made a mockery of Heath Ledger’s death and reveled in homophobia on his radio show Tuesday night. The uproar was almost instantaneous and Gibson had NO remorse or apology on his show Wednesday. In fact, he defended his actions! According to Think Progress: On his radio show yesterday, Fox News [...]
The National Gay Basketball Association will host the West Coast Classic III in Los Angeles January 19-20. Twenty teams from the United States and Europe will compete in three men’s divisions and one women’s division. For more information about forming a team or watching the competition, visit the NGBA’s West Coast Classic website.
The Democratic National Committee’s executive committee on Friday approved 25 delegates — seven of whom are LGBT — to the 2008 Denver Democratic Convention’s standing committees on platform, rules, and credentials, according to a DNC press release. Alabama state representative Patricia Todd, Ingrid Duran of Virginia, AIDS Action official Diego Sanchez of Massachusetts, and Gay [...]