Yesterday the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a committee vote on the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO), legislation that would provide equal benefits to the domestic partners of federal employees. The committee passed DPBO at... (Continue reading)
IN PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 40 TO RECEIVE MAMMOGRAMS, GILLIBRAND URGES FED TO CLARIFY NEW RECOMMENDATIONS New Guidelines Released This Week Claim Only Women Over 50 Need Routine Mammograms As Part Of Breast Cancer... (Continue reading)
YES -YOU – CAN Posted by melanie Nathan: Judge orders compensation for gay couple denied benefits (LA Times Report) by Carol J. Williams:- While recognizing the status quo of federal government rejection of gay marriage under the Defense of Marriage Act, federal judge of... (Continue reading)
Ten days ago, the House passed the Stupak Amendment, which would be one of the biggest setbacks to women’s health and rights in recent decades; unless we stand together and stop it, this will provide license for our rights to... (Continue reading)
By Melanie Nathan- Congratulations to Shirley Tan and Jay Mercado and the boys and Mommy. Shirley was named ADVOCATE MAGAZINE ’s Activist of the Year for 2009. This is well deserved. However they may have been used in a... (Continue reading)
11/16/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire In the 1890’s, the New York Post published an article detailing the arrest for murder of a woman who conducted illegal abortions for patients in New York City. She was not arrested for providing the abortions,... (Continue reading)
11/16/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Southern Voice and David Atlanta have both shut their doors as the downturn in the news media’s economy strikes the smaller, minority directed newspapers hardest. The Washington Blade’s site has slowed to a crawl as the... (Continue reading)
11/13/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The lobbying by the Roman Catholic Bishops to get the Stupak-Pitts Amendment made into law has drawn the ire of several people, including MSNBC commentator Dr. Nancy Snyderman. On a recent episode of her show, Dr.... (Continue reading)
Equality California is requesting that President Obama file a brief in the Federal Case against proposition 8. I hope I can pursuade our valued readers to jump on this one. One can go beyond the Petition and send the Whitehouse your... (Continue reading)
11/13/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Sometimes the death penalty is not a punishment, but rather a release. It can be the easy way out. If Major Nidal Malik Hasan is guilty of the murder of thirteen soldiers at Ft. Hood,... (Continue reading)
11/13/09-By Paula Brooks Federal investigators moved to seize four mosques in the US and a skyscraper in Manhattan yesterday over their alleged financial aid to Iran. Federal Attorneys in Manhattan filed a civil complaint in the federal court seeking the forfeiture of... (Continue reading)
Last night the city council of Salt Lake City unanimously passed an ordinance outlawing discrimination against gays in employment and housing, the first such law in the entire state of Utah. Very surprisingly, among those speaking in support of the... (Continue reading)
11/11/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918, the guns stopped. My great-grandfather fought in that war, known then as the War to End All Wars or the... (Continue reading)
11/11/09-by Paula Brooks I am not the daughter of the privileged… I am the daughter of a career military man, who is the son of a career military man, who was the son of a career military man… and I have... (Continue reading)
NY assembly shelves gay marriage vote… (AFP) –reported 8 hours ago- NEW YORK — New York’s state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage. “A vote did not take place. They are... (Continue reading)