Category: "LGBT News"

Catholic College yanks courses by gay priest

Chestnut Hill College, a Roman Catholic institution in Philadelphia, last week told a gay priest who had been a popular adjunct there for several semesters that he was no longer welcome to teach two religion courses. The college acted shortly after a Philadelphia man sent a letter to the archdiocese complaining that Chestnut Hill was [...]

It was a good week for gay rights last week!! Here’s why.

It’s been a great week for gays, gay civil rights and the notion that some barriers to equal opportunities are being challenged. President Obama’s Justice Department announced last week that they would no longer ask courts to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, a 90s-era bill that prevents the federal government from recognizing gay couples’ marriages. [...]

Police relations towards gays better in Scotland

Europe has once again proven they are capable of and are more tolerant of the gay and lesbian community. And while many Americans take for granted the “tolerance” we bestow on many different groups of people, we seem to always be behind the eight ball when it comes to basic relations with the gay community. [...]

California man arrested for anti-gay vandalism

Long beach Police Department officials have arrested a 23 year old man on suspicion of committing hate crimes. Oliver Rodrich SaintVictor of Rancho Palos Verdes is accused of vandalizing businesses that cater to the gay and lesbian community. Police reports indicate that he allegedly smashed windows at three different businesses on the same day in [...]

Indiana wants to take away civil unions too…

States who actively seek to ban gay marriage, gay civil unions or feel they have the right to just trample on the civil rights of the gay and lesbian community – BE WARNED. If we take our homes, our disposable income, our businesses away from your state – you are going to feel it. The [...]

Cruise passenger busted for selling drugs on gay cruise

A passenger on the 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas was arrested in St. Thomas this weekend for allegedly selling drugs to fellow passengers on a the largest ever gay cruise, a full charter of the world’s biggest cruise vessel. According to an Associated Press report, Steven Krumholz, 51, of West Hollywood, Calif., was arrested for [...]

Freedom to marry bill introduced in Washington State

State Senator Ed Murray and Representative Jim Moeller introduced legislation that would grant the freedom to marry to Washington State’s thousands of gay and lesbian couples. From a Valentines Day blog post on the Senator’s site: This Valentine’s Day, Rep. Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver, and Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said the night is darkest just before [...]

State health officials urge use of female condoms

Men, if you thought condoms were just “unsatisfying,” their may be an alternative for you – if you live in San Francisco. San Francisco health officials are stepping up the fight against spread of sexually transmitted diseases by urging the use of a more comfortable, redesigned female condom. The city is the nation’s first to [...]

Appalling law lets schools expel gay students

A SENIOR Anglican bishop calls it “appalling” and a gay and lesbian rights group condemns it as “deeply offensive”, but the Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, backs a NSW law that allows private schools to expel gay students simply for being gay. Through a spokesman, Mr Hatzistergos, described the 30-year-old law as necessary “to maintain a sometimes [...]

Anti-gay group NOM caught in a lie

The Pulitzer Prize winning site PolitiFact just called out the National Organization for Marriage for pushing a misleading statement. And it’s a huge lie – one that is central to the organization’s argument against same-sex marriage: In early January, just days after Lincoln Chafee replaced Donald Carcieri as governor of Rhode Island, advocates on both [...]