Speculation swirls around Maxwell for labor secretary
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM
President-elect Barack Obama this week was reportedly considering nominating an openly gay person to serve as labor secretary.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was considering Mary Beth Maxwell, the founding executive director of American Rights at Work, to head the Labor Department. If nominated, and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the nation?s first openly gay cabinet member.
The Journal reported that other officials in consideration for the position were Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D).
Maxwell in 2003 founded American Rights at Work, a non-profit organization that works to modernize laws to improve the condition ...
Many nonprofits struggling to weather economic crisis
By AMY CAVANAUGH, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM
Many gay advocacy organizations are scaling back services and cutting staff, as the nation’s recession takes a toll on nonprofits.
At Lambda Legal, 10 positions were cut last month. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation laid off several staff members Nov. 21. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has left open unfilled positions, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association recently reduced its national staff from seven to two.
GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said the cuts at his organization “touched all departments,” but did not reach “double digits.”
“We looked at the work we&rsquo ...
Editor says article was 'scientific'
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) | Dec. 3 at 1:47 PM Dec. 3 at 1:47 PM
International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality.
Adel Hussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region of northern Iraq, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders.
Hussein also was ordered to pay a fine of about $106, the organizations said. He is being held at Mahata prison in Irbil, about 220 miles north of Baghdad.
"We are astonished to learn that a press case has been tried under the criminal code. What was the poi ...
Speculation swirls around Maxwell for labor secretary
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM
President-elect Barack Obama this week was reportedly considering nominating an openly gay person to serve as labor secretary.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was considering Mary Beth Maxwell, the founding executive director of American Rights at Work, to head the Labor Department. If nominated, and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the nation?s first openly gay cabinet member.
The Journal reported that other officials in consideration for the position were Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D).
Maxwell in 2003 founded American Rights at Work, a non-profit organization that works to modernize laws to improve the condition ...
Many nonprofits struggling to weather economic crisis
By AMY CAVANAUGH, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM
Many gay advocacy organizations are scaling back services and cutting staff, as the nation’s recession takes a toll on nonprofits.
At Lambda Legal, 10 positions were cut last month. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation laid off several staff members Nov. 21. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has left open unfilled positions, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association recently reduced its national staff from seven to two.
GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said the cuts at his organization “touched all departments,” but did not reach “double digits.”
“We looked at the work we&rsquo ...
Editor says article was 'scientific'
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) | Dec. 3 at 1:47 PM Dec. 3 at 1:47 PM
International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality.
Adel Hussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region of northern Iraq, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders.
Hussein also was ordered to pay a fine of about $106, the organizations said. He is being held at Mahata prison in Irbil, about 220 miles north of Baghdad.
"We are astonished to learn that a press case has been tried under the criminal code. What was the poi ...
Speculation swirls around Maxwell for labor secretary
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM Dec. 3 at 4:49 PM
President-elect Barack Obama this week was reportedly considering nominating an openly gay person to serve as labor secretary.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was considering Mary Beth Maxwell, the founding executive director of American Rights at Work, to head the Labor Department. If nominated, and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the nation?s first openly gay cabinet member.
The Journal reported that other officials in consideration for the position were Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D).
Maxwell in 2003 founded American Rights at Work, a non-profit organization that works to modernize laws to improve the condition ...
Many nonprofits struggling to weather economic crisis
By AMY CAVANAUGH, Washington Blade | Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM Dec. 3 at 3:29 PM
Many gay advocacy organizations are scaling back services and cutting staff, as the nation’s recession takes a toll on nonprofits.
At Lambda Legal, 10 positions were cut last month. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation laid off several staff members Nov. 21. The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has left open unfilled positions, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association recently reduced its national staff from seven to two.
GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said the cuts at his organization “touched all departments,” but did not reach “double digits.”
“We looked at the work we&rsquo ...
Despite defeat, Martin says '08 elections redefined the Democratic Party
By MATT SCHAFER, Southern Voice | Dec. 3 at 2:48 PM Dec. 3 at 2:48 PM
Jim Martin, a former state lawmaker who fought for HIV funding and an inclusive hate crimes bill, told his supporters Tuesday night at Park Tavern that although he had lost his race for the U.S. Senate, they had done the right thing.
“Tonight we celebrate a victory beyond our campaign,” Martin said Dec. 2, after conceding to Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. “We celebrate a campaign that stood up for Georgians, ending the top-down economics that have destroyed our middle class, ending the war in Iraq that has destroyed our standing in the world.”
Although Martin forced a runoff in the Nov. 4 general election, he lost to incumbent Chambliss ...
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