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mybangalore.com – by Nishal Lama
Praja Rajakiya Vedike (PRV), a forum for city-based activists, has nominated two of their candidates for the upcoming BBMP elections: Veena S. from Okalipuram ward and A. Derick Anil from Hebbala ward.
Being the …
blog.newsweek.com – Eve Conant
According to gay-rights advocate Paul Yandura, activists have staged a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s district and Capitol Hill offices. The groups are fighting for her to take the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the fl…
salon.com – By Tracy Clark-Flory
You gotta love it: An extremist political group is campaigning against a hate crimes bill with a hateful undercover video that only proves the need for just such a measure. Mass Resistance, a “pro-family action cente…
thecrimson.com – By Alice E. M. Underwood – Crimson Staff Writer
Part I in a II Part Series
Gregory M. Sensing works at the Harvard School of Public Health. He goes to work, he goes home, he decides what to make for dinner and when to do the laun…
advocate.com – By Advocate.com Editors
Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is lending a hand to the fight for marriage equality and other LGBT rights. The Grammy winner stopped by San Diego’s LGBT Community Center to talk with staff members and volunteers …
vivirlatino.com – By Maegan La Mamita Mala
A few days after the #LGBTCIR summit, The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), an organization inside the RI4A Coalition, stepped up publicly to ask that all families be included in Comprehensive Immigr…
sfbaytimes.com – By Paul E. Pratt
For some, news that a drag queen threw her wig into the political arena, seeking election this fall to the District 6 (SOMA) seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, could have come as a shock. To those that …
ebar.com – by Rex Wockner
Australia’s Senate rejected a measure to legalize same-sex marriage February 26. The vote was 5-45. Twenty-six senators failed to vote.
The bill, introduced by the Greens, was opposed by the Labor, Family First and Liber…
ebar.com – by Seth Hemmelgarn
A well-known union and LGBT activist in San Francisco is claiming he has endured bullying and harassment at work.
Robert Haaland, who is transgender, is political coordinator for Service Employees International Union…
baywindows.com – by Hannah Clay Wareham – Staff Reporter
The National Academies’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) — advisors to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine — has formed the groundbreaking Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Tr…