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Reuters.com – By Mica Rosenberg
Guatemala City (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress is to vote this week on a bill limiting the legal concept of family to heterosexual couples with children, a move rights groups say threatens health-care access for sing…
Advocate.com – Kerry Eleveld, The Advocate
The 11th annual national dinner of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was expected to be a time of outright celebration, with the organization honoring Speaker of the House Nancy Pel…
Salon.com – By John Aravosis
The 30-year fight for a federal gay civil rights law may fail because activists insist on including rights for transgendered people too. Has gay inclusiveness gone too far too fast?
Washington – Like an ever-expandin…
TheNorthwestern.com – By Aldrich M. Tan – of The Northwestern
Drop-in for S.O.F.A. is Tuesday nights at the Winnebago Peace and Justice Center from 6 to 8 p.m. E-mail GLBTSOFA@hotmail.com for more information.
For more information about PFLAG-Osh…
HuffingtonPost.com – Gabriel Rotello
The decision by the Democratic leadership in Congress to eliminate transgendered people from ENDA, the bill to ban discrimination against gays in the workplace, has ignited a genuine firestorm in gay political …
SMH.com.au – Nicholas Baker
A spate of violent crime targeting the gay community prompted three prominent politicians and a drag queen to take to the streets in the early hours of yesterday.
As partygoers looked on, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore…
CommonDreams.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 5, 2007
12:44 PM
CONTACT: EQCA / NCLR / TLC
Ali Bay, Equality California 916.284.9187 ali@eqca.org
Calla Devlin, NCLR 415.392.6257 x324
Mobile: 415.205.2420 cdevlin@nclrights.org
Masen Davis, T…
PrideSource.com – by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 2015) is fast approaching its next moment in the sun, as a vote for ENDA may well take place by the time you read this column. The bill, as it currently stands, sho…
SFBayTimes.com – By Chris Crain
Gay Americans will go without workplace rights or other legal protections because of the trans-or-bust strategy on ENDA.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank announced this week that t…
GayPeoplesChronicle.com – by Lisa Keen
Washington, D.C.–A major controversy has erupted within the LGBT community over a decision by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., to seek passage of a new version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that excludes…