All posts tagged "LGBTQ"
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Alexandria’s Rainbow Tuesdays Adds Services
The Rainbow Tuesdays Clinic, a semimonthly testing clinic aimed at reaching the LGBT community in Northern Virginia, announced last week the expansion of its HIV/STD...
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Chick-fil-A wants to take over New York, CEO still opposes same-sex marriage
“We don’t need bigots coming to New York City.” That’s the reaction from openly gay Councilman Daniel Dromm, upon reading the story in USA Today...
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister distances herself from legalizing gay sex
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has further distanced herself from a 2011 election promise to legalize gay sex. The leader of the People’s National Party...
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Obama continues executive actions, but not on LGBT workplace discrimination
President Barack Obama continued to act on his promise to make 2014 a year of action, signing two executive actions Tuesday seeking to narrow the...
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Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in LGBT discrimination case
The U.S. Supreme Court will not address whether businesses have a right to discriminate after declining Monday to hear arguments in an anti-LGBT discrimination case...
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Mozilla CEO resigns following backlash over opposition to same-sex marriage
Brendan Eich, newly-appointed CEO of Mozilla, has stepped down, the company stated in a blog post. Eich has been facing a barrage of criticism and...
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POEFV Rallies On
A group of about 50 people, led by the pro-LGBT group People of Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV), gathered behind the Loudoun County Circuit...
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UPDATE: 220 lawmakers urge Obama to sign LGBT executive order
Update: In the final version of the letter sent to President Obama, 168 members from the House of Representatives and 52 senators signed their names,...
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DNC blasts Republican Party’s failure to evolve on LGBT-rights
A year after the Republican Party sought to cure its electoral woes with a series of policy recommendations, the Democratic National Committee said in a...
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Asia Pink Awards will celebrate those campaigning for LGBTQI acceptance in Asia
The first ever Aisa Pink Awards will take place this Sunday, March 16, in Singapore. Launched by Element Magazine, Singapore’s first gay men’s magazine, the...
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European Parliament: Uganda and Nigeria anti-gay laws demand action
The European Parliament, the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union, has adopted a resolution condemning the passing of laws in Uganda and Nigeria which...
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The Right To Be Wrong
I have been fighting the Catholic Church since I first argued with a nun at St. Catherine Labouré Elementary School in 1962. I don't recall...
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Senate confirms lesbian judicial nominee to federal bench
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to confirm out lesbian Judith Levy to the federal bench. Voting 97-0, the Senate confirmed Levy, along with three...
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European Parliament adopts new data protection laws protecting LGBT people
The European Parliament has adopted new data protection laws that seek to better protect the private information of an individual pertaining to their sexual orientation...
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Neil Patrick Harris: Women still want to marry me
“I’ve found that a lot of girls have no issue with me being gay… They still want to marry me. And I love that.” —...
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