By John Mack Freeman A new ad from the HRC targets Mississippi evangelicals in an effort to increase their support of same sex marriage and LGBT issues more broadly. Watch it below:
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Russia: Second LGBT couple legally weds
By John Mack Freeman It must be very frustrating trying to come up with the perfect bigoted law. Anti-LGBT cranks want to be sure to kick people as often and as hard as possible, but when they get that excited, they have a hard time running through all the ramifications. Most people know about Russia’s […]
Botswana: Gay rights group gets go ahead to exist
By John Mack Freeman Even though gay sex is punishable in Botswana by up to five years in prison, a judge found this week that the state had no method to stop a gay rights group from forming inside the country. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Botswana got the go ahead this week that their existence […]
Same sex marriage coming soon to South Carolina, Kansas, and Missouri
By John Mack Freeman Another week, another round of advances in the fight for full marriage equality inside the United States. This week, three states had rulings handed down that expanded access to marriage across the country. In South Carolina, a United States District Court threw out that state’s ban on same sex marriage as […]
Russia removes Steve Jobs statue because of the gay
By John Mack Freeman In this week’s bizarre news, Russia has removed a memorial to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs because his successor Tim Cook came out this week. This is so ridiculous that I can’t even review the news, so here it is from Out.com: Erected by a Russian group of companies called ZEFS, […]
Massachusetts elects first out attorney general in nation
By John Mack Freeman In this year’s midterm elections, equality lawyer Maura Healey became the first out LGBT person to be elected as a state attorney general in United States history. She will replace Martha Coakley (the outgoing attorney general) who lost her bid to become Massachusetts governor to her Republican opponent. Via PinkNews: Following […]
Dallas adds LGBT protections to city constitution
By John Mack Freeman The citizens of Dallas, Texas overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the city’s nondiscrimination policy found in the City Constitution. Over 77 percent of those who voted in the election were in favor of including the new language. Via Lone Star Q: Dallas already prohibited […]
Sixth Circuit gets confused, upholds same sex marriage ban
By John Mack Freeman The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the same sex marriage bans that had been challenged in that court from the states of Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky. In a 2-1 split, the majority (both appointed by George W. Bush) found that a same sex marriage ban did not discriminate against […]
Missouri, Kansas Same Sex Marriage Bans Fall
By John Mack Freeman Though many same sex marriage advocates may have been concerned about their forward momentum with the Republican surge win this week in the midterm elections, this has not stopped judicial progress on this issue. Same sex marriage bans fell in both Missouri and Kansas this week. A state judge in St. […]
Manchester library unveils public LGBT archives
By John Mack Freeman The Manchester Libraries have teamed with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation to make the Foundation’s holdings more publicly accessible. Via PinkNews: The LGF’s history collection – made available at Central Library in Manchester – includes a comprehensive catalogues of LGB magazines, including Mancunian Gay, Outnorthwest, Gay Times, Diva, and several grassroots […]