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NBCNews.com
February 12, 2018
Now, openly gay alumni are fighting to save it. ... “We were taking a giant step backwards and sending a message to prospective students, students who were there, faculty and staff that gay people are ... “There was no support group that I knew of,” he said, adding, “I felt 1,000 percent alienated at the time.”.
New York Times
February 12, 2018
The distrust has persisted despite efforts by the police to increase the number of gay and lesbian police officers and the issuance of an official apology, by Chief Sanders in 2016, ... Mr. McArthur, who attended a Gay Fathers of Toronto support group and worked as a mall Santa, had some record of violence.
PinkNews
February 10, 2018
The vacated venue was purchased for $148,000 in January by the extreme evangelical group, The Greater Toledo House of Prayer. In a statement on its website, the hateful organisation says: “In October 2017, the ministry became aware that the Adams St. building was available for sale, then toured theÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 9, 2018
International human rights groups and supporters of same-sex marriage condemned the reversal. “This decision strips loving same-sex couples of the right to marry and jeopardizes Bermuda's international reputation and economy,” said Ty Cobb, director of the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy groupÃÂ ...
HuffPost
February 9, 2018
BOGOTA, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gay people in Ecuador are forced to undergo “conversion therapy” in secret clinics where they are raped and beaten, even though homosexuality is legal, said campaigners calling for courts to deliver justice to end more than a decade of abuse. Scores ofÃÂ ...
Inside Higher Ed
January 22, 2018
Concordia University, a Lutheran college in Oregon, on Friday announced that it would formally recognize an LGBTQ+ student group whose charter it had ... “We remain committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we support all students, particularly people from groups who have historically beenÃÂ ...
Windy City Times
January 15, 2018
Founding National Director of the Black Youth Project ( BYP100 ) Charlene Carruthers gave the keynote address at Affinity Community Services' annual kick-off event, Burning Bowl: Re-Imagining Tomorrow: Serving Our Communities Future, Jan. 13 at Morgan Park United Methodist Church. This eventÃÂ ...
Inverse
January 15, 2018
Instead, the death of one character brought the series dangerously close to an anti-gay trope. But, the production team consulted GLAAD — the non-profit group that promotes positive visibility of LGBTQ issues in the media — to ensure negative stereotypes were not being reinforced. Spoilers head for theÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
January 14, 2018
In 2017, the organization granted $55,000 to 15 nonprofits and groups as well as $16,000 worth of scholarships to seniors at four area high schools: Aspen, Basalt, Roaring Fork and Glenwood Springs. New to Aspen Gay Ski Week's grantee list is the International Gay Lesbian Travel Association andÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
January 13, 2018
Conversion therapy is a form of counseling that seeks to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, usually involving gay, lesbian, bisexual or ... Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida until he stepped down in July, said he hopes South Florida'sÃÂ ...
NPR
January 12, 2018
Prior to coming out, Gohil created the Lakshya Trust, an organization focusing on gay issues and sexual health in Gujarat. The group will be in charge of managing the center's operations. Gohil says construction plans include adding rooms for guests, a medical facility and space for vocational training toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 12, 2018
Gay, who has herself been on the faculty for the Midwest Writers Workshop (MWW), turned to Twitter on Tuesday to lay out how the workshop's organisers treated the writer Sarah Hollowell. According to Gay, Hollowell has worked for MWW for five years, and was voted to be on its organisational committee.
TechCrunch
January 5, 2018
The first sentencing has been handed down in a Texas case centered on the use of Grindr as a platform from which to perpetrate hate crimes. Nigel Garrett was given 15 years yesterday after pleading guilty to a list of crimes including assault, carjacking, and use of firearms, the Tyler Morning TelegraphÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
A coalition of LGBT groups has launched a “No Gay, No Way” campaign, aimed at spotlighting the nine finalist cities in states that do not have ... Among those running the effort are Kate Kendall, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Conor Gaughan, a civil rights activist in LosÃÂ ...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
Anchored North: 'Cult-like' Evangelical Christian group condemned after video claiming gay people can change through prayer ... empowerment for the LGBT+ community – follows a young woman named Emily Thomes, who the group claims spent seven years living as a lesbian before leaving her partnerÃÂ ...
KCET
November 14, 2017
I'm gay and lonely and emotional, so there's no place for me here. ... if familiar, position of many gay and lesbian migrants who arrived broke and alone in ... Gay Liberation Fronts across the nation—groups that advocated for a .... organized with the GLF-LA and other gay organizations in the city to fight back ...
41 NBC News
November 14, 2017
An Arizona-based Christian group, Alliance Defending Freedom, ... beliefs and creates unequal treatment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. ... one of the gay rights groups that challenged the Mississippi law.
New York Times
November 14, 2017
Debra Chasnoff, Whose Films Redefined Gay Families, Dies at 60 ... The film was said to have inspired many gay and lesbian couples to start raising ... an advocacy group that had organized a boycott of General Electric products to .... But “That's a Family” provoked a backlash from conservative groups and ...
Windy City Times
November 14, 2017
On Monday evening, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice hosted a ... the intersection of money and power and supporting local organizations." ... group of women activists as the first philanthropic organization working ... funding to international LGBTQI groups working at the intersections of racial, ...
NBCNews.com
November 14, 2017
A storm-proof window was “shot completely out” at the headquarters of LGBTQ group Freedom Oklahoma. The organization's leader suspects ...
WUKY
November 14, 2017
Philpot attracted national attention in 2016 over comments made to a religious group, during which he questioned the legitimacy of same-sex ...
CBS News
November 13, 2017
VALE, N.C. – The pastor of a church hit by a fire early Monday says he's concerned it may have been started on purpose, reports Charlotte ...
NBCNews.com
November 13, 2017
After Man Is Charged in Gay Son's Death, LGBTQ Groups Focus on Outreach ... For advocates of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth, the Nov. ... Johns said his organization is doubling down on providing parents and ... an advocacy group for gay black men, said he was heartbroken and ...
CNN
August 5, 2017
Eden Arazi, who advocates for an organization, Kirtzno, that supports ... Gay couples can't get married in Israel and only male-female couplesÃÂ ...
The Atlanta Voice
August 5, 2017
There is a rich history of black gay men that have worked tirelessly to ... “a seat at the table” has helped his organization counter the narrative.
NewNowNext
August 5, 2017
But after spotting a big group of bottlenose dolphins engaging in ... Nicholson reported that they'll need to find other groups of dolphins inÃÂ ...
NJ.com
August 5, 2017
JERSEY CITY -- Fridays are lacking in drama while "RuPaul's Drag Race" is in between seasons, but Jersey City's Downtown council race hasÃÂ ...
PRI
August 3, 2017
Lesbians in Senegal are left out of the gay rights movement organized ... women's groups ... don't want to have anything to do with gay women," says Ndeye Kebe. ... de Femme (Woman's Smile), the country's only lesbian rights group. ... Senegal's oldest LGBT organization, says he helps someone in thisÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 27, 2017
That Mr. Mateen was a Muslim and had targeted gay and lesbian clubgoers ... one of the founders of the Republican gay rights group GOProud,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 17, 2017
This month, the gay rights group Lambda Legal announced that it would ... “Justice Kennedy has viewed the mistreatment of lesbian, gay andÃÂ ...
Coda Story
December 31, 1999
An investigation by a Moscow-based newspaper this spring made headlines around the world that the Russian government in Chechnya,ÃÂ ...
Instinct Magazine
March 15, 2017
... the light on what's hip and cool. (It would probably save us all some time.) Writer/director Kyle Buchanan brings some of our favorites together for this "Gay Focus Group" sketch starring Drew Droege, Louis Virtel, Parker Delon, Pete Zias, and ...
LGBTQ Nation
March 14, 2017
The group said Wednesday, March 8, 2017, it was denied permission to march in the 2017 Boston St. Patrick's Day parade just two years after organizers made the ground-breaking decision to allow gay groups to participate for the first time. (AP Photo ...
LGBTQ Nation
March 14, 2017
FILE - In this March 20, 2016 file photo, members of OutVets, a group of gay military veterans, march in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston's SouthÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
March 14, 2017
Now, an established anti-LGBTQ group is asking parents to speak out against Disney by supporting a "godly" animated movie instead of taking their children to see "Beauty and the Beast.
Las Vegas Sun
March 14, 2017
Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, Nevada's first openly gay legislator, attends a rally at the The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada to celebrate a ruling that overturned Nevada's prohibition on gay marriage in 2014. Parks is sponsoring ...
Daily Nation
March 14, 2017
Gay rights groups and child welfare advocates raised alarm Monday over what they see as legislative attempts in nearly two dozen US states to roll back recent anti-discrimination gains.
Huffington Post
March 14, 2017
"Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT Republican president in history," Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay GOP group, recently told me in an interview at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in ...
New Republic
March 14, 2017
In 1992, he founded the National Organization for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, or NARTH, an organization of psychologists that aims to help gay people "realize their heterosexual potential" through a practice that is alternately known as ...
Gay Star News
March 14, 2017
'We also have counselling clients and other sources who report that the sexuality education programmes they teach in our local schools are misogynistic and homophobic in content.
Observer
March 14, 2017
ECC alumni Lillian Casey Bermas had a different view regarding the issue of the anti-gay organization being allowed on campus.
Metro
March 14, 2017
After it emerged Disney's latest live-action remake Beauty and Beast has a gay character, the AFA decided to fight back.
Inquirer.net
March 14, 2017
CHICAGO, United States - Gay rights groups and child welfare advocates raised alarm Monday over what they see as legislative attempts in nearly two dozen US states to roll back recent anti-discrimination gains.
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
March 14, 2017
The Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston had for years banned gay groups from participating in the parade, before finally allowing them to participate in 2015.
The Good Men Project (blog)
March 11, 2017
It's not often we can fit Kathy Griffin, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus and Trump-voting red states into one headline, but today is our lucky day.
New York Times
March 11, 2017
The parade organizers, the Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston, voted unanimously late Friday to reverse their decision made on Tuesday to exclude the group, OutVets, which had marched in the event the past two years. OutVets had been givenÃÂ ...
Rochelle News Leader
March 11, 2017
KINGS - While Great Lakes Basin Transportation officials work to submit an application to build a new 278-mile railroad line through Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, a large and growing group of concerned citizens is hosting a town meeting on Thursday ...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 11, 2017
The veterans council says it routinely bars controversial groups. It says it is accepting of all people but will not permit messages that conflict with the parade's celebration of country, community ... The gay veterans group barred from marching in ...
The Herald
March 11, 2017
OutVets founder Bryan Bishop wears the logo of his group while speaking with a reporter at his house in Boston, Friday, March 10, 2017.
Tulsa World
March 11, 2017
The group said Wednesday, March 8, 2017, it was denied permission to march in the 2017 Boston St. Patrick's Day parade just two years after organizers made the ground-breaking decision to allow gay groups to participate for the first time. (AP Photo ...
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