CBS has recently denied a spot during the Super Bowl for a commercial promoting ManCrunch.com, a gay dating Web site, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) wants to know why. GLAAD has asked CBS to publicly address their advertising standards. The letter GLAAD sent to CBS also mentioned the commercial the television [...]
Gay groups are calling CBS homophobic for agreeing to air an antiabortion ad featuring Tim Tebow and not the ad for gay dating website ManCrunch. By changing its policy on advocacy ads, CBS invited the outrage. By agreeing to show an “uplifting” antiabortion ad and rejecting a Super Bowl-style ad (read: funny) for a gay [...]
The recent death of a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper is putting the rights of same sex couples in Missouri under a microscope. The long-time partner of Corporal Dennis Engelhard believes he should receive death benefits. 43 year old Kelly Glossip says he and Engelhard were together for nearly 15 years. Yet, he says he’s being [...]
Score one for Focus on the Family in the Social Values Super Bowl — the advocacy advertising contest that will fill the airwaves between scattered moments of NFL football February 7. CBS has rebuffed the publicity-seeking entry from a new gay dating service, Mancrunch. The company had pounced on a chance to present their ad [...]
College football star Tim Tebow says that he does not fear the backlash surrounding his upcoming appearance in a pro-life ad from Focus on the Family to be aired by CBS during the Super Bowl. According to The Palm Beach Post, the University of Florida quarterback defended the 30-second ad in which he and his [...]
Patrons of one of Orlando’s popular gay nightclubs said the tire-slashing of more than two dozen cars goes beyond an act of criminal mischief. Some said it smacks of a hate crime. “There are cars at the nearby apartments, and I have not heard of any tire slashing happening there Monday night,” Revolution patron Miguel [...]
I was proud to testify this week in what I believe will soon be seen as one of the defining civil rights cases of our time, Perry v. Schwarzenegger. I did so as a Republican mayor, a father, and a former police chief with over 26 years of experience on the force. But I also [...]
Plaintiffs prepared to rest their case Friday in the federal trial over California’s Proposition 8, setting the stage for backers of the ban on same-sex marriage to open their direct line of defense. “We’re pleased with the way it has gone,” said David Boies, an attorney for the gay couples that want to wed. He [...]
In an historic meeting last week talks took place between Jewish community leaders and Jewish members of the LGBT community. Members of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) met with GLBT members of the Jewish community last Thursday to discuss inclusion, acceptance and visibility of GLBT Jews in the JCCV. However, Michael Barnett coordinator [...]
Opponents know their chances of success are slim, but they are looking to the November election in hopes Republicans will regain control of the Statehouse and succeed then in repealing the law. Right now, Democrats are firmly in charge and appear eager to dispose of controversial measures early in the session to avoid lingering debate [...]