Thursday marks one decade of acknowledging the Transgender Day of Remembrance, with celebrations and vigils being staged all across the country. Allyson Robinson, the Human Rights Campaign's associate director of diversity, says this year was one of the worst on record for transgender people.
Next month, the United States Supreme Court is expected to meet to review a case which asks whether or not Barack Obama is a "natural-born citizen" and thus qualified under the U.S. Constitution's to become president. A similar suit has been brought by President-Elect Obama's former rival Alan Keyes in California, where the secretary of state has been petitioned to withold electoral votes from Mr. Obama until the question of citizenship is resolved.
Socially conscious scion of Hollywood royalty, Gwyneth Paltrow, has recently gotten a heck of a lot of flack for appearing in a national ad campaign draped in fur. In response Paltrow offered an apology basically saying she didn't know she was wearing real fur. But because it is almost completely incredulous that one as socially aware she professes to be could be that oblivious to differences between real and faux fur, Gwynnie Paltrow is the hypocrite of the week.
Allyson Robinson, our associate director of diversity (pictured below), is in Orlando tonight to speak and take part in the National Transgender Day of Remembrance. I thought I would post her prepared remarks for delivery: As a minister for nearly...
Bilerico Project's LiveBlog is underway with three leaders of this year's anti-amendment battles in California, Florida and Arizona - Kate Kendall (No on 8), Nadine Smith (Equality Florida) and Barbara McCullough-Jones (Equality Arizona). Log on now to www.bilerico.com.
HEADS UP: Tonight’s episode of “LA Ink†will feature the story of Todd Barrett, a Los Angeles gay man who will discuss his life with his husband Joe and their experience parenting their 4 year-old adopted daughter. Todd and his...
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Proposal became too watered down, some activists said The team behind a plan to open Chicago's first public high school aimed at gay and lesbian students pulled the plug Tuesday, faced with criticism from Mayor Richard Daley and some ministers and an internal split about whether a revamped version "watered down" the vision.
Photo by Sundogg via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr In a move that shows how much more resourceful and mirthful GLBT activists are than their self-righteous opponents with the funny underwear , the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center has raised over $60,000 since the election to invalidate Prop. 8--and each of their 2,300 world-wide donors did it in the name of Thomas Monson, head ...
CHICAGO -- The team behind a plan to open Chicago’s first public high school aimed at gay and lesbian students pulled the plug Tuesday, faced with criticism from Mayor Richard Daley and some ministers and an internal split about whether a revamped version “watered down†the vision.
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