SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- As the decade draws to a close, a new report shows the past 10 years have been a period of dramatic gains in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in America. Two-thirds of the 36 statistical indicators compiled in A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights showed significant advances, including sharp increases in the number of LGBT Americans protected by nondiscrimination and family recognition legislation at the state level. Just over a quarter of the indicators were negative, and two showed mixed results. The report is a joint project of the LGBT Movement Advancement Project and the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr., Fund. The report is available at www.lgbtmap.org.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Shepard Fairey will judge an art contest based on graphic "remixes" of his poster DEFEND EQUALITY LOVE UNITES which he produced by commission from FAIR (Freedom Action Inclusion Rights), a grass-roots organization formed to promote equal rights and combat homophobia. The contest launched over two weeks ago on deviantART.com, the largest community of artists ever assembled. The contest, which challenges deviantART members to re-conceive Shepard's 'Defend Equality Love Unites' image, has exploded since its debut. To date, there is a contentious but organic online dialogue from the deviantART community with comments numbering more than 6,000 individual posts and over 1400 submissions. These numbers make this one of deviantART's most popular contests ever. Full details on the contest can be found at http://news.deviantart.com/article/99837/.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantis Events, Inc., the world's largest company specializing in all-gay and lesbian vacations, is offering guests on the first ever gay cruise to mainland China, South Korea and Japan a special roundtrip airfare of only $399*. These fares are good between any continental U.S. or Canadian city arriving in Shanghai and departing Hong Kong. Customers who book any outside or balcony stateroom by Jan. 12, 2010 can take advantage of this exclusive promotion.
This morning at 10 a.m. the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will mark up the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, S.1102. WATCH LIVE HERE This legislation would allow the same-sex partners of federal civilian employees to be eligible for health benefits, a practice that would bring the federal government in line with almost 60% [...]
Now that the Council of the District of Columbia has twice voted to extend marriage equality to same-sex couples, the obvious question is: what’s next. The bill now goes to Mayor Adrian Fenty who has said he will sign it. Because of D.C.’s unique status, all bills passed by the Council and signed by the [...]
Today, the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury returned multiple indictments arising out of the fatal racially motivated beating of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pa. In addition to returning hate crime indictments, indictments were returned that related to local police corruption. Ramirez lost his life on July 14, 2008 after he was knocked unconscious and [...]
As the decade draws to a close, a new report shows the past 10 years have been a period of dramatic gains in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in America. Â Two-thirds of the 36 statistical indicators compiled in A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights showed significant advances, including sharp increases in the number of LGBT Americans protected by nondiscrimination and ...
Police in Lancashire say many sexual assaults in the gay, lesbian and transgender community are not reported.
Area residents have joined in trying to fit their opinions through a small window to win gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in New Jersey.
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