LGBT
Far-right ‘hate group’ members sought, won election in local races
YAF members present themselves to voters as run-of-the-mill Republicans
Gay News You Can Use: Audacity Edition
Anthax attack suspect linked to AFA, Missouri elects a gay to office, “Oops, I’m straight,” and more
Christian legal group from Ann Arbor opposes gay rights in Hamtramck with lies, disinformation
The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal group founded by Tom Monaghan of Domino’s Pizza, has signed on to represent a group of citizens in Hamtramck to oppose the city’s human rights ordinance, which includes protections for gays against discrimination.
That citizens group is called Hamtramck Citizens Opposing “Special Rights” Discrimination. This group has collected [...]
Gay news you can use: murder, HIV ban, and HIV in the African-American community
Colorado transgender teen murdered because she was an “it”
Police have arrested the alleged killer of an 18-year-old transgender Colorado woman. Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata, was found beaten to death in her apartment last week. According to report in the Greeley Tribune, police arrested Zapata’s boyfriend, Allen Ray Andrade, 32.
According to the report [...]
New report sheds light on firing of U.S. attorney from Michigan
Bush official engaged in illegal discrimination
A new report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s office implicates former DOJ official Monica Goodling in illegal employment decisions, including one involving a former U.S. attorney from Michigan.
The report, the result of a joint investigation of the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Office of [...]
Spectrum Health apologizes to lesbian couple
A Grand Rapids clinic has apologized to a lesbian couple for a doctor who allegedly criticized their lifestyle instead of giving them medical care.
In June, Ashleigh Haberman and Erica Schaub went to Spectrum Health, an urgent care clinic, for medical care, but they say they got a lecture about gay marriage from the doctor. The [...]
Gay News You Can Use: Military edition, yes, SIR!
Congress holds hearings on controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
The gay blog and media outlets are abuzz with Wednesday’s hearings about repealing the ban on gays in the military. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) even went so far as to liveblog from the event.
The interesting thing about all this is, while there were [...]
Gay News You Can Use: jilted edition
South Carolina so NOT gay
Someone made a big “oops” down in the Palmetto State when she approved an expenditure of less than one-half of one-tenth of 1 percent of South Carolina’s tourism promotions budget on a London advertising campaign to bill the Southern state as a destination for gay tourists. Gov. Mark Sanford ordered the [...]
Second parent adoption bill dead, supporters say
Supporters say they can’t win in state Senate, and House won’t take up the issue
LANSING — Supporters of a bill to expand adoption rights to unmarried couples has died in the state House, reports Penny Gardner, director of the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality, a group pushing for a new law.
“It’s too bad we [...]
Gay News You Can Use: dawning of a new day
Helms dies, LGBT community remembers his ruthless actions against them.
While the conservative blogs and news outlets were praising former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, many in the LGBT community remembered the hatred and bigotry he ushered in during his 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate. The video above was created by AIDS activists [...]