About 2,200 government employees working in foreign affairs signed a letter supporting the rights of the LGBT employees that was hand-delivered to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office Monday afternoon. The letter (full text below) from Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies congratulated Secretary Clinton on her confirmation and then proceeded to outline a number [...]
New York governor David Paterson’s pick to take Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U.S. Senate, former representative Kirsten Gillibrand, said she would support full marriage rights for gay couples during a noon press conference Friday in which the governor announced the appointment. “I will advocate for marriage equality, women’s rights, preserving Social Security and the [...]
When Rev. V. Gene Robinson took to the stage at a star-studded, pre-inauguration event Sunday afternoon in Washington D.C., millions of LGBT Americans eagerly anticipated what the openly gay bishop would have to say about equality in America. But Robinson’s invocation never aired on television – he was cut from the telecast of the Lincoln [...]
Maine state senator Dennis Damon introduced a bill Tuesday that proposes legalizing marriage for same-sex couples. “Today I have submitted an act to end discrimination in civil marriage and to affirm religious freedom,” he said at a press conference in the state capitol. The state now offers domestic partnerships to unmarried couples, including gays and [...]
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday during her confirmation hearing for secretary of State that she intended to review the department’s policy of not extending benefits to partners of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender foreign service officers. But Clinton stopped short of giving a specific commitment to make partner benefits available, saying she needed more information [...]
The American Family Association has identified yet another target in its waging of the culture war — PepsiCo. The right-wing organization has asked members to boycott PepsiCo after the company donated a combined $1 million to the Human Rights Campaign and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The AFA says it sent two [...]
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday named Bradley Kiley, who is gay, as director of the Office of Management and Administration. Kiley has been serving as director of Operations for the Obama-Biden Transition Project and previously served as vice president of finance and operations at the Center for American Progress. Kiley served as deputy assistant to [...]
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 [...]
From Hollywood’s perspective, there’s a cloud over Barack Obama’s inaugural. Now the question is whether the weather that day will simply be overcast or stormy. Obama’s selection of Orange County mega-pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing in has hit liberal Hollywood in one of its sorest spots: the [...]
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 [...]