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OnTopMag.com – By Carlos Satoscoy
After nearly a decade of outsider status, gay and lesbian activists are once again being welcomed in the halls of Congress and the White House. What do they plan on doing with their new access? Lots, it seems.
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CMonitor.com – By Martha Fuller Clark, Barbara Richardson and Ed Butler for the Monitor
New Hampshire resident Sarah Blanchette was fired in 2004 from her job of seven years at a local college where she had received excellent annual performance revi…
MiamiHerald.com – By Ron Word – Associated Press Writer
Gainesville, Fla. — A charter amendment that would strip this university city’s anti-discrimination protections extended to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender residents is before voters…
Boston.com – Posted by Foon Rhee, Deputy National Political Editor
Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, one of a handful of openly gay members of Congress, says he believes that Congress will soon pass laws protecting transgender people fro…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Associate editor
On April 7 transgender people and their allies from across the state will come to Beacon Hill to lobby for the transgender rights bill, but the very next day their opponents, led by the anti-LGBT C…
SeaCoastOnline.com – By Patrick Cronin
A respected police officer, Anthony Barreto-Neto, was run off the police force in Hardwick, Vt., by constant harassment from fellow officers after they learned he had been born a woman.
Jamie Rondeai of Lowe…
CommonDreams.org – Equality California (EQCA) and Transgender Law Center
San Diego – More than 200 transgender community members and allies will meet in San Diego on March 27, 2009 for the 4th annual Transgender Leadership Summit. The Summit comes a…
GayCityNews.com – By: Paul Schindler
A group of LGBT rights advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 18 to demand that the federal government honor 2010 census responses from gay and lesbian couples who identify th…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Associate editor
LGBT advocates have already persuaded a majority of the legislature to back the transgender rights bill, but that doesn’t mean that passage of the bill is a done deal. In fact, the bill’s fate will…
Media.www.SonomaStateStar.com – Kimmie Osborne
It was only a fifty-two percent majority that banned marriage between same-sex couples and challenged civil rights for many Californians. That slight majority allowed Proposition 8 to pass in Nov. 2008….