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GayCityNews.com – By Paul Schindler
[Editor’s Note: Subsequent to the posting of this article, the House Rules Committee voted early in the evening on November 5 to advance the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the floor for a vote, and to per…
Boston.com – By Jonathan Saltzman
The Boston-based legal advocacy group that helped make gay marriage a fact of life in Massachusetts is girding for a fight to expand the rights of same-sex married couples.
For more than a year, Gay & Lesbian Ad…
ICCoventry.ICNetwork.co.uk – By Emma Stone
Police chiefs in Coventry are to get new guidelines on how to deal with officers who are going through a sex change.
West Midlands Police has plans to improve its policy relating to members of staff goi…
SMH.com.au – Sarah Price
A Transgender psychotherapist has taken a gay association to an equal opportunities tribunal, alleging she was discriminated against by being refused entry to a lesbian event.
Tracie O’Keefe, of Sydney, said she requested…
Media.www.Daily49er.com – Wandie Kabule
As an all-inclusive community, it is hypo-critical to deny the rights of some to advance the rights of many. All human beings should have the right to be who they are, regardless of race, class, sex or gender….
GayPeoplesChronicle.com – by Eric Resnick
Rookie Dems move to kill Baldwin’s transgender amendment
Washington, D.C. – The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is on hold, probably until just before the Thanksgiving recess, after a move by the 30 Dem…
RMChronicle.com – By Kerri Rebresh
Gay-rights organizations demand a bill to protect gays, lesbians and bisexuals from workplace discrimination.
“Include all of us or none of us.” In unison with more than three hundred and fifty other gay-rights …
NPR.org – Win Rosenfeld
In a potentially landmark decision, the United Methodist Church has ruled that a transgender pastor who applied for a name change can remain in the ministry. The decision in case of the Rev. Drew Phoenix was released on Tuesd…
RAC.org – Contact: Sean Thibault or Kate Bigam
Saperstein: The right to earn a living without fear of discrimination ought to be extended to all Americans, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Washington, D.C. – In anticipation of…
StarTribune.com – By Nina Petersen-perlman, Star Tribune
Bills aim to extend federal protection from hate crimes, and workplace discrimination to GLBT people, but some leaders don’t want transgenders included.
Proposals some call the most sweepin…