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Diss queers to appease fundi prejudices? Refuting religious arguments which justify anti-queer bigotry....
Posted: Sun Feb 1, 2004 6:47PM
LGBT News From "This Way Out" It's the January 12 edition of This Way Out: The International Lesbian and Gay Radio Magazine, the world's audio oasis for LGBT news and culture, hosted by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon....
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:16PM
Scarborough pranked by Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger,of "Savage Love" fame http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/9/223732/9480...
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:29PM
National "Freedom to Marry Week" Actions Feb 9-15 World's Largest Gay Church Group And DontAmend.com
Announce National "Freedom to Marry Week":"Gays Called To Flood Marriage Bureaus With Same-Sex Marriage License Applications And Participate In National Pro-Marriage Rallies...
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 11:06PM
Mass. polititians rally around gay marriage BOSTON -- Former political heavyweights from Massachusetts, including former Gov. William Weld, have urged state lawmakers to abide by the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark ruling calling for full equality in the state's marriage laws....
Posted: Wed Jan 7, 2004 1:08AM
New National Black Advocacy Group Forms The National Black Justice Coalition is an ad hoc coalition of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community leaders, public figures and activists who have come together to fight against discrimination in their community....
Posted: Mon Jan 5, 2004 6:14PM
HRC Applauds Michigan Governor For Ban On Anti-Gay Employment Discrimination Granholm's Executive Order Makes Michigan 11th State to Ban Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation in Public Employment...
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2004 1:28PM
Tasmania same-sex partner laws take effect Same-sex couples in the Australian state of Tasmania can now register their unions because of a set of laws that took effect on Thursday....
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2004 1:18PM
GLBT adoption may follow marriage in Belgium In a move that would make it one of the world's most gay-friendly nations, Belgium appears poised to grant same-sex couples the right to adopt children, only months after becoming the second nation in Europe to legalize gay marriage....
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:44PM
Transgendered community remembers Brandon Teena's murder Ten years ago, a handsome, brown-haired 21-year-old named Brandon Teena was raped and later murdered by two men after they discovered he wasn't born a man....
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:37PM
Michigan Governor Granholm Issues Order Banning Discrimination Against Lesbians And Gays Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm gave GLBT state employees some holiday cheer Tuesday by issuing an order banning discrimination against lesbians and gays....
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:35PM
Remembering Brandon Teena, Ten Years After His Death 
On 26 December 1993 a young transsexual was shot and stabbed to death in the United States in a crime which later became the subject of the Oscar-winning movie Boys Don't Cry. Ten years on, his family is still seeking justice and dozens of transsexuals continue to be murdered every year...
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 10:05AM
Leader slates 'homophobic' church The leader of the Church of Scotland is to use part of his Christmas sermon to accuse the kirk of reinforcing hatred of gay people....
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 7:41PM
Bishop closes church for ignoring LGBT unions An Anglican church in Canada that defied its bishop by refusing to support same-sex unions has been shut down....
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:32PM
Gay footage will stay in Lincoln Memorial video Footage of gay rights demonstrations will not be removed from a videotape shown at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, according to spokespeople from the National Park Service and the Human Rights Campaign. Earlier reports in various news outlets said the gay images would be removed....
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:40AM
Pension Fund Bars Gay Discrimination (New York City) The New York City Employees Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the country has begun targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. The fund manages $78.6 billion in holdings....
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:37AM
Michigan Governor Bans Anti-Gay Bias LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm has issued an order banning discrimination against gays in state employment, a move critics condemned as a first step toward legalizing gay marriage.
The order issued Tuesday covers the executive branch, which has about 55,000 employees _ about 95 percent of all state workers....
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:36AM
President Voices Support for Marriage Amidst Vocal Opposition President George W. Bush threw his ideological weight into the looming battle over the civil rights of gay, lesbian, intersex, and transgender Americans. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) decries these efforts to destabilize gay and gender-variant families in the hopes of garnering reelection support through religiopolitical bigotry....
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:39PM
AIDS activist listed for Nobel Peace Prize A gay, HIV-positive activist who refused to take certain AIDS drugs until they were widely available to millions of fellow South Africans has been nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize....
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:51PM
A kiss by two Michaels changed the meaning of marriage in Canada in 2003 
Michael Stark, left, and Michael Leshner kiss after their marriage in Superior Court in Toronto on June 10. (CP/Frank Gunn)...
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 9:38AM