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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on Jan. 16 applauded Equality California (EQCA) and legislative leaders for the record number of pro-equality laws taking effect this month in California. “With eight pro-equality laws going into effect this month, California stands head and shoulders above any other state in treating all its people equally under the law,” said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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Catholic adoption agencies should not be able to opt out of new gay rights laws, ministers have insisted. Constitutional Affairs Secretary Lord Falconer and environment minister Ben Bradshaw both rejected the suggestion of exemptions to the law.
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A DOUBLING in the number of new cases of syphilis in Victoria has prompted health authorities to urge gay men to be tested for the sexually transmitted infection every year.
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London, UK (OUT NOW / MPG) January 22, 2007 – Research released today shows the extent of UK lesbians and gay men wanting to adopt children.
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We can't just sack the straight staff, says critic A LEADING Calderdale councillor has found himself at the centre of a gay- rights row after claiming West Yorkshire fire chiefs spend too much time discussing equality issues.
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LOS ANGELES -- The heated controversy at ABC's top show, Grey's Anatomy, has boiled over as the network rebuked co-star Isaiah Washington for an anti-gay comment and Washington issued a lengthy apology.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The estranged wife of former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey is writing a memoir about her life with him. "The Silent Partner" is expected to be published by Hyperion Books in May, according to a press release.
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Militias in Iraq continue to hunt gays in wake of a 2005 fatwa on all homosexuals. Gay Iraqi citizens have been the victims of increased attacks and killings since the U.S. invasion began in 2003.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Isaiah Washington, shut your big trap before they take you away. Don’t you know you’re in Hollywood, where you don’t use words like “Faggot”? No, not even in a sentence denying you called someone a “faggot”.
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About six months after the publication of gay American Jim McGreevey's salacious memoir, The Confession, ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey's signed a deal with Hyperion Books for her own tell-all, the ironically titled Silent Partner.
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ATLANTA — A minister who disclosed that he was gay before Atlanta's oldest Lutheran church hired him as its pastor could now be defrocked for announcing he has a partner.
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ASPEN — The Aspen Community Church welcomes the Shower of Stoles Project, a display of liturgical stoles that tell the stories of gays, lesbians and transgender people worldwide.
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(New York City) One of the nation's most prestigious and well know law firms is being sued by one of its own lawyers who claims there is widespread homophobia at the practice.
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Almost 60 percent of all daily U.S. newspapers now accept wedding and commitment ceremony announcements for gay and lesbian couples.
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This year’s Golden Globe awards provided a scene where an allegedly homophobic star of hit medical drama Greys Anatomy tried to put rumours of anti-gay abuse behind him.
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Face Opposition From Both Sides. Following in the footsteps of their Berliner brethren, a group of gay activists in Warsaw have revealed plans to erect a pink triangle commemorating the fagalas and lesbianicas who perished at the hands of the National Socialist party.
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Congratulations are in order for State Representatives Betty Poirier and Jay Barrows, as well as former representatives Virginia Coppola and Phil Travis. At long last, these fine representatives have achieved their goal – they have helped give hatred and discrimination a possible foothold in our Constitution.
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In yet another sign of positive chance in the new EU states, a gay man has won damages after being denied a job as a masseur because of his sexuality.
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Further proof that mainstream audiences aren't fazed by the gays, came on Saturday night when Corrie star, Antony Cotton won ITV1's Soapstar Superstar.
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T he photograph of new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was political gold: Surrounded by a sea of lawmakers' shiny-faced girls and boys, a few of them her own grandkids, the first woman to lead "the people's House" waved the gavel, signaling a new era, particularly for America's youngest citizens.
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Statistics show that allowing gay marriage will encourage more people to become gay, just like spending time with someone short makes you shorter.
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With the 2008 presidential campaign looming just on the horizon, speculation about political fortunes abounds. On the Democrat side, Lady Hillary is waiting in the wings, and the media’s profilers have found their fair-haired boy in Barack Obama.
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