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ABCNews.go.com – By Z. Byron Wolf
Senators voted Thursday morning to give the federal government more jurisdiction to prosecute hate crimes and included protections for gay, lesbian and transgender victims, attaching the measure to an annual defens…
MarketingVOX.com
Nearly one in four (24 percent) gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) adults say they have switched products or service providers in the past 12 months because they found a competing company that supports causes that benefi…
Advocate.com – Kerry Eleveld, The Advocate
Immediately following the historic Senate vote to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal hate-crimes law, controversy erupted over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act now under consider…
SFGate.com – Carolyn Lochhead
The decision by House Democratic leaders yesterday to dump transgender people from a civil rights law protecting gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination has put the Human Rights Campaign in a terribly awkward po…
ThisIsCheshire.co.uk
A Transvestite died shortly after arriving at another man’s home for gay sex, a court has heard.
The victim, David Currie from Warrington, suffered serious internal injuries during their sex session which led to a fatal heart…
EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com
Chennai: Companies in India should incorporate and put in place a policy framework to prevent discrimination against trans-genders, a top management consultant said on Thursday.
“13 Fortune 500 companies have put in p…
PoliticalAffairs.net – By Pride at Work
Just as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act neared action in Congress, disturbing reports have surfaced that House Democratic leaders are planning to remove the bill?s protections for transgender workers in…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(London) While Iran criminalizes homosexuality with the penalty death, it at the same provides sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals according to a British report.
The Guardian’s Tehran corresponden…
Media.www.DailyEmerald.com – By Mike O’Brien – News Reporter
New gender-neutral changing facilities help the rec center welcome the entire campus population
Every January, gyms all over the country fill up as millions of Americans lift, run, spin…
ThinkSpain.com – By thinkSPAIN
A corporal who was denied permission to take the regulation fifteen-day leave of absence to marry his transsexual sweetheart was told by his commanding officer, a Spanish Navy captain: “In Franco’s day, you’d already …