02/09/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire John Carroll University in Ohio was the scene of a student protest last week. Prior to the start of a basketball game, gay and lesbian students along with their allies staged a sit in to protest... (Continue reading)
Image by Benny BNut via Flickr 02/09/2010- by Natasia Langfelder Yesterday Rhodes News and a small contingent of follows attacked Rachel Maddow online. It seems that the Tea Bag party members object to Maddow using the term “Teabaggers” to describe them. It... (Continue reading)
Image via Wikipedia Melanie Nathan, 2/08/10 . On the 3rd of February I posted the news that Senator Schumer will not be including our LGBT families in his immigration reform Bill. Amongst the very many e-mails sent to me as a... (Continue reading)
02/08/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It is sometimes hard to remember that Kirsten Gillibrand is facing a Republican challenger to her Senate seat given all the speculation regarding whether or not Harold Ford Jr. would be entering the Democratic Primary. Bruce... (Continue reading)
02/08/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Word has come down the wire that Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania has died. Murtha, who was 77, was strongly opposed to the Federal Marriage Amendment. What his views on broader LGBT rights is hard... (Continue reading)
Reported by Melanie Nathan, San Francisco, 02/09/10 . A determined Virginia State Delegate, David Englin (D-Alexandria) is again seeking a repeal of the State’s Constitutional amendment, by sponsoring House Joint Resolution 55. (co-sponsored by Delegate L. Kaye Kory, D-Falls Church.... (Continue reading)
02/08/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Questions over how much bonus money former Representative Harold Ford Jr. are starting to percolate in the potential showdown for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat. The Senator is asking exactly how much money Ford has gotten from... (Continue reading)
Posted by Melanie Nathan 2-08-10. San Francisco – Equality California will be honoring Justice Carlos R. Moreno and Sam & Julia Thoron at the 2010 San Francisco Equality Awards, which will be celebrated this Saturday, February 13 at 6.00 PM... (Continue reading)
By Melanie Nathan, San Francisco, Febrruary 7, 2010- In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, the Matier and Ross column “outs” Judge Vaughn Walker, or so they think. But we all knew he is gay and it made no difference to... (Continue reading)
Melanie Nathan, Posting an UPDATE on our BREAKING NEWS Article – San Diego Police Investigate City Heights Deaths as a Murder-suicide (lezgetreal.com): San Diego Police Department conducted a welfare check at an apartment where officers found two bodies around in an... (Continue reading)
By Melanie Nathan, San Francisco, February 6, 2010 – The video below is from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO. It shows a young man named Jacob sharing his story of being set free from addictions to... (Continue reading)
02/06/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has offered up a proposal to put an end to dismissals under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, or at least she is reintroducing the idea. Under her plan, an amendment would be offered to... (Continue reading)
02/06//10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Colonel Oliver North attacked the decision to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He decided that the decision by Secretary Robert Gates to not pursue third party reports turning in gay and lesbian service members, such as... (Continue reading)
2/6/10-by Paula Brooks This past week, Lori Hahn (Hahn at Home) and Margo Moon (Starr Ann Chronicles) launched Our Big Gayborhood, an entertaining new site full of lively, powerful, snarky, reflective and just plain interesting articles spanning the entire spectrum of... (Continue reading)
02/06/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Brendan Burke, the son of The Toronto Maple Leaf’s manager Brian Burke, was killed in a two car accident in Indiana. Brendan Burke was Brian Burke’s youngest son. The accident occurred early Friday afternoon. ... (Continue reading)