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TampaBay.com – By Theresa Blackwell, Times Staff Writer
Dunedin – When a team of African-American police officers came down from Chicago 20 or 25 years ago to compete in the Highland Games tug-of-war, a local restaurant refused to serve them, City A…
SFGate.com – Posted By: Joe Garofoli
It’s confirmed: Oscar winner Charlize Theron will be in Fresno Saturday for the pro-same sex marriage march and rally. Our hand is about to pull the official “Stop the Presses” lever for this headline: “Oscar Win…
MyEyewitnessNews.com – Reported by: Jeni DiPrizio
Memphis, TN — Shelby County Commissioners are considering passing an ordinance that would make it illegal to discriminate against someone because of his or her sexual orientation, identity or expre…
TheJakartaPost.com – The Jakarta Post
The transgender community faces greater discrimination in public than any other LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – individuals, according to speakers at a public discussion in Jakarta on Wednesday….
AllAfrica.com – Audrey Mbugua
Deeply concerned about the profound discrimination experienced by Kenya’s transgender community, Audrey Mbugua berates Kenyan society for its unjust treatment of a marginalised group. Rather than creating ‘transgender r…
BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
In 1971, the Gay Liberation Front at Temple University in Philadelphia learned that the college’s counseling program was routinely referring gay men to the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute for av…
Advocate.com – By Amita Parashar
A group of transgender community leaders and their allies will protest the American Psychiatric Association conference Monday night in San Francisco. Reform GID Now is demanding that the APA revise its Diagnostic and…
eNewsPF.com – HRC Press Release
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, issued the following comments after Governor John Lynch provided a…
ePGN.com – by Jen Colletta
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission announced late last month that it amended its policy toward gender changes on licenses to facilitate the process for transgender individuals, allowing them to change their gender mar…
Amarillo.com – By Enrique Rangel
Austin – Equality Texas may not be as well known as other civic groups in the Panhandle, but for the past 15 years or so the Austin-based organization has established a strong presence in Amarillo.
“We (have) buil…