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ExpressBuzz.com – India Express Buzz – Express News Service
Chennai: Around 20,000 transgenders, kothis and marginalised women from across the State have come together to set up a federation that will deal exclusively with their needs including heal…
SLTrib.com – By Rosemary Winters – The Salt Lake Tribune
President Thomas S. Monson: You have mail – boxes of it.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) delivered 27,000 letters to LDS Church headquarters Monday – all of them asking the Mormon leader to…
WashingtonPost.com – By Theola Labbe-DeBose – Washington Post Staff Writer
Dozens of sex workers marched through the streets of downtown Washington yesterday, demanding better treatment from law enforcement officials of prostitutes who become crime …
UKGayNews.com
New York – In response to the tragic murder of Lateisha Green earlier this month, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund today called on New York State lawmakers in Albany to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act [G…
OneNewsNow.com – Jim Brown – OneNewsNow
Peter LaBarberaA conservative activist is expressing alarm over president-elect Barack Obama’s plan to expand a Clinton-era executive order that provides special protections for federal employees based on thei…
PageOneQ.com – by Nick Cargo
In what is being viewed as a strong signal to activists nationwide, the transition office of President-elect Barack Obama has issued a non-discrimination policy including sexual orientation and gender identity.
“The O…
SoVo.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Obama’s win represents ‘historic milestone’ for gays
Gay rights leaders called Tuesday’s election of Democrat Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president a development of historic proportions for the advancement of …
SoVo.com – By Dyana Bagby
Betsy Markey and Julie Bindel
FRIEND
Anyone who can kick anti-gay U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) out of office is definitely a friend to gay and lesbian Americans. Democratic challenger Betsy Markey defeated Mus…
GatorSports.com – By Cindy Swirko – Staff Writer
The city attorney’s initial wording of a proposed charter amendment that could overturn Gainesville ordinances providing civil rights protection to transgendered, gay and lesbian residents was discuss…
GayLesbianTimes.com – by Robert DeKoven
Ever since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the GLBT community has had little to celebrate at the federal level. But it’s a new morning in America!
With Obama at the helm, we will make progress at las…