The Woman Who Has Never Stopped Fighting To Keep LGBT Americans Out Of The Military. By Josh Israel "The Woman Who Has Never Stopped Fighting To Keep LGBT Americans Out Of The Military" In 1993, as Congress considered whether to let President Bill Clinton keep his campaign promise to lift the military’s ban on gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members, Elaine Donnelly took to CNN to warn that doing so would cost the nation millions and destroy the U.S.
Armed Forces. Westboro Baptist Church Chased Out Of Moore, Oklahoma. Group Counters Westboro Baptist Church's Lorde Protest With A Message Of Love. Even in the wake of Fred Phelps' death, members of the Westboro Baptist Church continue to use hate as their weapon of choice.
But counter-protesters at a recent gathering chose against fighting hate with hate and offered a message of love. Westboro Baptist Church followers gathered at Lorde's concert at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday to protest the singer for "serving herself and teaching other young people how to be indolent rebels. " The protest came just one day after the death of the WBC founder. Homosexuality Is The Result Of Childhood Sexual Abuse, According To Richard Land. Why Gay Teens Are Being Expelled From Christian Schools. How anti-gay Christians evangelize hate abroad. If you live in the United States, it's easy to be lulled into thinking that the battle for broader civil rights for gay people is nearly over.
The last few years have brought important victories in courts, legislatures and at the ballot box, and momentum is firmly on the side of increased equality. That's not true, however, in other parts of the world. Virginia Gay Marriage Fight Echoes Past Battle Over Interracial Marriage. Westboro church founder Fred Phelps dies. Fred Phelps, Founder of Anti-Gay Westboro Church Dead at 84. Mississippi Scraps Discriminatory 'Religious Freedom' Provisions Following Backlash In Arizona. By Zack Ford "Mississippi Scraps Discriminatory ‘Religious Freedom’ Provisions Following Backlash In Arizona" Update The problems may not have been addressed by the amendment.
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Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Is Back, Leaving LGBT Couples in Legal Limbo. Trestin Meacham, a devout Mormon in Utah, posted a picture of himself to social media on Monday, eating what looks like a spoonful of yogurt to celebrate the end of a weeks-long anti-gay hunger strike.
Meacham told media he only drank water and ate vitamins from Dec. 21 onward, to demonstrate his opposition to gay marriage, which for brief window of time was legal in his state. But the U.S. Supreme Court put those marriages on hold Monday as a federal appeals court ponders the issue—and the LGBT community is back to hungering for equal marriage rights.
BREAKING: Utah Governor Says State Will Not Recognize 1300+ Same-Sex Marriages. By Ian Millhiser on January 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm "BREAKING: Utah Governor Says State Will Not Recognize 1300+ Same-Sex Marriages"
Twitter Hate Speech Map Pinpoints Racist, Homophobic Hotspots Across U.S. The most hateful tweeters in the United States tend to live in the eastern half of the country, according to a new map that pinpoints hate speech from Twitter across country.
The map, created by geography students at Humboldt State University in California, looks at more than 150,000 geocoded tweets (tweets that say where the user is located) between June 2012 and April 2013, sorting for those that contained a racist, homophobic or anti-disability word. The researchers then decided whether or not the tweet was using the word in a hateful way. Dos hermanas enfrentadas por el matrimonio gay. CNN Guest on Boy Scouts Gay Ban: Parents Need to Protect Kids From Potential Risk of Sexual Abuse. Missouri man arrested at hospital for refusing to leave gay partner. By David EdwardsThursday, April 11, 2013 8:50 EDT A gay man was arrested at a hospital in Missouri this week when he refused to leave the bedside of his partner, and now a restraining order is preventing him from any type of visitation.
Roger Gorley told WDAF that even though he has power of attorney to handle his partner’s affairs, a family member asked him to leave when he visited Research Medical Center in Kansas City on Tuesday. Te hablamos del doble closet de ser gay e indocumentado en E.U. "Para mí fue mucho más difícil salir de las sombras y declararme indocumentado en la secundaria que dar a conocer mi identidad sexual.
Pero al combinar las dos cosas, hay una problemática complicada", dijo Gutiérrez, residente de Los Ángeles y originario de Nayarit, México. Gutiérrez, quien llegó a Estados Unidos a los 10 años con su mamá y hermanos, encabezó una delegación que hace dos semanas llevó a la capital del país el impulso de un movimiento surgido a la par del movimiento proinmigrante. Lo bautizaron QUIP, que en inglés significa Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project y es un grupo nacido dentro del movimiento más amplio de los jóvenes indocumentados y de su más grande organización, United We Dream. La palabra queer, antes un epíteto contra las personas homosexuales, la retoman estos jóvenes como una identidad política y de lucha, según explicaron varios de ellos.
New Mexico governor vetoes bill to help families of gay soldiers. Republican governor and gay marriage opponent Susana Martinez has vetoed a Senate bill to help the families of gay service members obtain professional licenses in New Mexico.
After issuing the pocket veto, Martinez signed an identical version of the measure that would only streamline the process for straight spouses.