Archive for the ‘Gay Rights’ Category

Veterans Day is a holiday observed annually in the United States in honor of all those, living and dead, who served with the U.S. armed forces in wartime. This year, we celebrate Veterans Day on Wednesday, November 11.
I hold the highest resect, admiration, and gratitude for all who have given of themselves to fight for [...]

Margie M. Palmer, Editor
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Earlier today in what can only be described as landmark legislation, the U.S. Senate passed the conference report for the FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill by a vote of 68 to 29, sending critical hate crimes legislation to the President’s desk.  On October 8 the U.S. House successfully passed [...]

Margie M. Palmer-  Editor
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced yesterday new plans to ensure that HUD’s housing programs are open to all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.  To date, HUD is the first federal agency to publicly propose guidelines that would explicitly address discrimination based on sexual [...]

Organization calls for boycott of “sexual indoctrination” in K-12 schools
Esther Rubio-Sheffrey 
 
(SACRAMENTO) –  SaveCalifornia.com, the West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization that led the statewide battle against a proclamation of the statewide holiday “Harvey Milk Day,” is calling on every California parent with children in K-12 government schools to keep their sons and daughters home on this [...]

Says Repeal Would Improve Military Justice
 
(SANTA BARBARA) PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –  The Palm Center, UC Santa Barbara think tank, released the following statement yesterday:
 
“The military’s prohibition of consensual sodomy invites arbitrary enforcement and may be unconstitutional according to a report released by the Commission on Military Justice today. The Commission recommends repealing the ban.”
 
The report was sponsored [...]

Fernando Lopez
Here we are just days before the one year anniversary of the passage of Prop 8 and on the opposite side of the country,  a mirror reflection of last year is occurring in Maine. 
Once again, extremist and LDS front groups are laundering money, funneling it into the state, and now Maine is in the [...]

Washington, DC Economic Partnership One of Top Event Sponsors
 
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP) is upping the ante for business development as a lead sponsor of the Third Annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Economic Development Summit. The business development event will be held in the District of Columbia on [...]

by Wayne Besen, Founder,  TruthWinsOut.org
 
In March, American anti-gay activists traveled to Uganda for a conference that pledged to “wipe out” homosexuality. Seven months later, a draconian bill has been introduced that pledges to make good on this threat. The “Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009” is so severe that it is designed to shred the spirit and suffocate [...]

Esther Rubio-Sheffrey
 
(SAN DIEGO) LGBT organizations and non-profit coalitions across California are busy preparing to repeal Proposition 8 in next year’s election after a devastating and narrow defeat in November of 2008.
Their collective efforts have resulted in the creation of a new group Ð Restore Equality 2010. Their mission is to unite Californians in the campaign [...]

Organization Surpasses Fundraising Goal by Raising More Than $250,000 at 8th Annual Garden Party Event
(LOS ANGELES) /PRNewswire/ — Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH), the nation’s only affordable housing development and organization for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) older adults, announced that it raised over $250,000 at its 8th annual Garden Party event entitled [...]