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Gillibrand Urges Feds To Clarify New Mammograms Recommendations
Written on 18 Nov, 2009 at 17:21 in A Gay Girl's View, Activism, Columns, Commentary, Education, Family, Featured, Hot Topics, Lez Be Smart, News, Op-Eds, Politics, Relationships, Special Reports | viewed times | 0 Comments
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)
Illinois Teacher Suspended Over Gay Animal Article
Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 6:07 in Education, Featured, News, People, Politics | viewed times | 3 Comments
11/2/09-by Paula Brooks Last week, Dan Delong, an English teacher at Southwestern High School in Piasa, IL was suspended after giving an optional assignment of reading an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students and is scheduled to... (Continue reading)
Minnesota Teachers Placed on Leave of Absence Over Gay Harassment Case
9/2/09-by Paula Brooks Two Minnesota teachers accused of repeatedly harassing a student they believed was gay, have been put on leave of absence from their jobs. Diane Cleveland, a 39-year-old social studies teacher, and Walter Filson, a 56-year-old law enforcement teacher, were... (Continue reading)
Push Made To Bring Gender-Neutral Bathrooms To Vermont Schools
Written on 30 Aug, 2009 at 10:22 in Education, Featured, News, Organizations, People | viewed times | 2 Comments
08/30/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Kyle Giard-Chase went before the Vermont Human Rights Commission to request a formal complaint regarding gender neutral bathrooms in Vermont schools. Before any panicking begins, what Kyle is talking about is a single stall bathroom similar to... (Continue reading)
Back-to-School Resources for LGBT Parents
Written on 26 Aug, 2009 at 21:39 in Education, Family, Family Life, Featured | viewed times | 0 Comments
Lesbian mom Dana Rudolph, aka Mombian, recently put together an article which covers the topic of back to school for LGBT parents. This is a busy time for many families, including those with LGBT parents, and the resources are flowing everywhere... (Continue reading)
Teachers being educated to stop discrimination in Brazil
Main cause for discrimination against homosexual students in Brazilian schools is the lack of preparation of teachers to deal with the issue, states Agência Brasil. According to Rosiléa Wille, chief-coordinator of Human Rights for MEC, teachers reproduce discriminatory behaviors because they... (Continue reading)
Pennsylvania college accidentally includes LGBT protections for nine years?
A Western Pennsylvania community college is taking cues from Barack Obama’s White House IT people on how to deal with inconvenient wording on uncomfortable positions and promises you’d now rather forget about… Since 2000, Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, PA... (Continue reading)
Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Same-Sex Marriage Amendment
Here is a little something that has pretty much gone under the wire…. But something with a potential outcome that could spell some very far-reaching implications to Defense of Marriage amendments across the country. Thursday, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court formally... (Continue reading)
Michael Steele says marriage equality will cost businesses money
Written on 16 May, 2009 at 8:23 in Education, Family, Featured, People, Politics, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 9 Comments
In a breakfast speech to delegates of the Georgia Republican convention this morning, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has made the marriage equality debate a fiscal issue by saying that allowing same-sex couples to marry places a financial burden... (Continue reading)
Congress Members Ask Obama to Count Same-Sex Married Couples
Written on 16 May, 2009 at 7:17 in Education, Family, Featured, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 3 Comments
Forty-eight members of congress, led by openly gay reps Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, and Jared Polis have sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orsag telling him to reverse a Bush administration decision not to count... (Continue reading)
Same-Sex Marriage Debate Begins in Rhode Island State House
Written on 14 May, 2009 at 4:50 in Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 2 Comments
The debate over marriage equality was revisited in the Rhode Island State House Wednesday, as that states House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on two proposed bills. One bill would allow same-sex couples to wed in Rhode Island; the other... (Continue reading)
Florida Appeals Court… State Must Honor Out of State Second Parent Adoptions
Via NCLR….. Today the Florida Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and held that Florida must give full faith and credit to adoptions granted to same-sex couples by other states, holding that Lara Embry, the plaintiff... (Continue reading)
Iowa’s Senator Tom Harkin says he now backs Marriage Equality
Written on 11 May, 2009 at 8:31 in Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 0 Comments
Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, who 13 years ago voted for the federal Defense of Marriage Act that prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriage, said while appearing Friday on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” he no longer holds the same... (Continue reading)
Pat Robertson: Marriage Equality in Maine – The end of the world as we know it?
Written on 11 May, 2009 at 2:19 in Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 4 Comments
Responding to news last week that Maine’s Governor John Baldacci had signed a Marriage Equality law, Televangelist Pat Robertson, said… “We haven’t taken this to its ultimate conclusion. You got polygamy out there. How can we rule that polygamy is... (Continue reading)
Maine’s Marriage Equality Opponents File Challenge
Written on 8 May, 2009 at 9:06 in Education, Family, Featured, Relationship Rights | viewed times | 2 Comments
“We’re right, we’re free, we’ll fight, you’ll see.” Maine’s opposition to marriage equality are prepared to take this to the voters. They are beginning the process of getting the roughly fifty-five thousand signatures that they need in order to put... (Continue reading)
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November 18, 2009 | 5:21 pmIN 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 Screening Many Doctors, Experts Object To Recommendations, Giving Women Conflicting Messages on How to Protect [...]
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