Those new campaign finance laws that allow corporations to get more involved in political campaign advertising are getting an early test. According to ABC News, Target Corp. is getting blasted by gay rights advocates after news emerged that the company had donated $150,000 to a Minnesota-based political group called MN Forward that is backing gubernatorial [...]
Nearly year after murders at Tel Aviv gay youth center, memorial held as part of Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Young man wounded in hate crime says, ‘It is important to tell what happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again’.
Clay Greene, a 78-year-old gay man, said Sonoma County forced him and his 88-year-old partner into separate nursing homes, denied the couple’s relationship, sold off their possessions and kept them apart until the partner died.
A gay activist has been discharged from the New York Army National Guard for breaking the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuality.
People with traumatic childhoods are three times more likely to be gay or bisexual, according to a new study. But critics say the Otago University research is flawed and could have a negative impact on perceptions about homosexuality.
The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.
Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, who wrote the landmark ruling making the state the first to legalize gay marriage, said Wednesday she’s retiring to spend time with her husband, who has Parkinson’s disease.
A former Air Force major is expected to testify at a federal trial that involves the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits gays from openly serving in the military.
President Barack Obama’s remarks that the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy weakens national security shows it should be declared unconstitutional, a lawyer for the nation’s largest Republican gay rights group told a federal judge Tuesday.
Gay rights activists say a survey asking U.S. troops’ views on ending the ban on homosexuals openly serving in the military is insulting and biased. Servicemembers United, the nation’s largest group of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, told The Washington Post the survey includes “derogatory and insulting wording, assumptions and insinuations.”
The recent murders of two transgender women in Turkey highlight an ongoing pattern of violence and the urgent need for stronger protection measures by the government, four Turkish and international human rights organizations said in a letter to Turkish authorities.
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