The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights ruled Monday that a church group discriminated against a lesbian couple when it denied them the right to hold their civil union ceremony on beachfront property the group owns but has advanced as a public space. The division found that Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster had probable cause [...]
Rudolf Brazda, a 95-year-old German citizen and the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, has definitively broken his silence on his experience at the Buchenwald camp. In a new interview in the French gay magazine Têtu, Brazda speaks in detail for the first time since he made provisional remarks at the June inauguration of [...]
n the wake of the decision by President-elect Barack Obama to select Reverend Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, Equality California executive director Geoff Kors calls on Obama to live up to his promise of “One America” and prove he is the ardent supporter of LGBT equality he claims to be. The [...]
Progressives are up in arms over the Obama transition team’s announcement that the Reverend Rick Warren has been selected to deliver the invocation at his inauguration in January. Warren, the founder and senior pastor of California’s Saddleback Church, was a vocal supporter of Prop. 8. Moments after the announcement was made, Huffington Post went wild [...]
LGBT leaders are meeting with members of the Obama transition team to push for appointing an out cabinet secretary and brief them on LGBT policy. Though no promises have been made, activists are hopeful more gay appointees will be added to the list.
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for education secretary supported a proposal this year for a Chicago public high school that would be geared to gay students. Arne Duncan, the Chicago school superintendent, approved plans for the Pride Campus of Social Justice High School, which was set to be voted on by the school board in November, [...]
New York Governor David Paterson has issued a directive requiring the Health Department to allow a gay couple to have both partners’ names added to a birth certificate. What a momentous statement! Finally! A step toward the adoption of children by gay couples! So, what is so great about gay adoption? Think about it! Gay [...]
The Reverend Richard Cizik spoke in support of gay civil unions during a December 2 broadcast of Fresh Air on National Public Radio and said his attitude toward LGBT people is shifting. The evangelical organization was quick to distance itself from Cizik. He has become an increasingly outspoken opponent of some of the association’s positions [...]
A Democratic aide has confirmed to The Advocate that President-elect Obama will be naming Los Angeles deputy mayor Nancy Sutley, who is gay, as a senior member of his environmental team, as reported Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times. Sutley, who currently serves as deputy mayor of energy and the environment, will be named chairwoman [...]
The Iowa supreme court is ready to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a gay marriage case that USA Today reports “could echo throughout the nation and be far more difficult to challenge at the ballot box than a high-profile ruling in California, legal experts say.” If Varnum v. Brien is decided in favor of the [...]