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Sec. Clinton delivers message for LGBT pride month
In honor of Pride month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recorded a video message about the ways in which the United States is working to ensure the rights of LGBT people both here at home and in the nation’s policies abroad. The former First Lady and U.S. Senator (D-NY)…
Senate hears first-ever testimony from openly trans person in ENDA hearing
Speaking to lawmakers on Tuesday, Kylar Broadus, an attorney, professor and activist, become the first-ever openly trans person to give testimony to the Senate. Broadus (pictured, left), founder of the advocacy group Trans People of Color Coalition, shared his experience being trans in America with lawmakers sitting on the Senate…
Human Rights Campaign survey finds ‘deck stacked’ against LGBT youths
LGBT teens are more than twice as likely as non-LGBT teens to say they’ve been verbally or physically attacked at school, according to a report released today by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to LGBT rights. Titled “Growing Up LGBT in America,”…
‘Family’ leader vows to never stop hating LGBT people
The president of The American Family Association said during his radio show on Tuesday that he views Christianity and homosexuality as so completely incompatible that if he and fellow Christians ever stop hating LGBT people, they just may become the target of similar hatred, or worse. “Every advance of the homosexual…
North Carolina GOP platform: Exclude LGBT individuals from discrimination laws
The North Carolina Republican Party adopted a platform over the weekend that states gay, lesbian, bisexual and trangendered individuals should be excluded from anti-discrimination laws, according to Think Progress. “Government should treat all citizens impartially, without regard to wealth, race, ethnicity, disability, religion, sex, political affiliation or national origin. We…
Author of controversial ‘ex-gay’ study: ‘I apologize’ to LGBT community
Earlier this month, psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer fully recanted a controversial 2003 non-peer reviewed study that he published in the journal The Archives of Sexual Behavior, a study in which he posited that “highly motivated” LGBT people could reach their so-called “heterosexual potential” through counseling and prayer. In a piece…
Openly gay NC legislator: ‘We have to continue to fight’
On the whole, things look pretty bleak for North Carolina’s LGBT citizens today. Yesterday, voters passed Amendment One, an amendment to the state’s constitution banning marriage and civil unions for same sex couples. However, there is one bright spot. In Guilford County, openly gay state legislator Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Greensboro)…
Pennsylvania set to elect first openly LGBT state representative
The state of Pennsylvania is set to elect its first openly LGBT state representative this fall. According to a report at the blog Gay Politics.com, Brian Sims has won the Democratic primary for Philadelphia’s heavily Democratic District 182, and is not expected to face a Republican opponent in the fall.…
Mormon students talk about suicide in ‘It Gets Better’ video
LGBT students at Brigham Young University, a school with close ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are speaking out in a new video about their religion, which forbids gay sex. The campus group Understanding Same-Gender Attraction (USGA) recently created the video to speak out about the…
NOM strategy documents: ‘Drive a wedge’ between black and LGBT voters
Documents have come to light in a Maine court filing that detail a plot by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to slow the legalization of same-sex marriage by dividing black and LGBT people, according to the Human Rights Commission. The documents, marked “Confidential,” emerged as part of an investigation…
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