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Examiner.com – Michelle Palmer – Austin Civil Rights Examiner
Judy Shepard has worked for 11 long years to secure the passage of the legislation that makes the assault or murder of someone based on their orientation or gender identification a hate c…
MichiganMessenger.com – By David Alire Garcia
Kalamazoo – With the constant din of volunteers talking and phones ringing behind him, City Commissioner David Anderson sat on a metal folding chair at campaign headquarters and explained his reluctant e…
CommonDreams.org
Contact: Equality California (EQCA)
Vaishalee Raja
(916) 284-9187 vaishalee@eqca.org
Darci Sears, Assemblymember Perez
916-319-2046 darci.sears@asm.ca.gov
Sacramento, Calif. – Yesterday Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill…
Suntimes.com – By Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times Columnist
Commitment ‘Unwavering’ – Acknowledges gay activists’ impatience with him
Washington — President Obama — confronting gay critics who expected his administration to have done more by now on gay r…
OrlandoSentinel.com – By Linda Shrieves – Sentinel Staff Writer
The Obama administration’s highest-ranking gay man urged the gay community Friday to prepare for a tough fight as Congress considers a law that would ban workplace discrimination agains…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – From a News Release
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, praised the U.S. House of Representatives today for passing the conference r…
TheSOP.org – By Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Karachi (Women’s Feature Service) – “In their greed to gain our votes the politicians are now willing to listen to our demands,” said Sapna, 24, a transgender, dressed in a fitted printed woman’s shalwar kameez (Pa…
EdgeBoston.com by Joseph Erbentraut – EDGE Great Lakes Regional Editor
The first article in this series took a general look at the growing problem of violence against transgendered persons, both in the U.S. and abroad. In the second part, Joe Erbent…
www2.TBO.com – By Christian M. Wade – The Tampa Tribune
Tampa – Should transgender individuals be protected under the city’s code?
Tampa’s Human Rights Board believes so and on Thursday asked the city council to consider extending the protections…
Ridenbaugh.com – by Randy Stapilus
Not that the end result necessarily will be much different, but one of Idaho’s most unusual candidates this year – Melissa Sue Robinson, running for mayor of Nampa against incumbent Tom Dale – is creating a larger …