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• MD: Status of the Gay Rights Movement in Maryland

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Gay rights are in limbo in Baltimore. However, there is some progress being made nearby in D.C.. The nation has a revised hate crimes bill, which expands the definition of a hate crime to include gender, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, the Washington D.C. City Council has introduced ...
  15 hours ago

• The Mormon Church Blinks On Discrimination

  
  marmel.com — Authority: 115
  The Mormon Church blinks. SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment. The Utah-based church’s support ...
  1 day ago

• Sutherland Institute Calls LDS Support of Salt Lake City ‘Gay Rights’ Ordinance ‘Problematic’

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 615
  The following statement was released by the Sutherland Institute , a conservative, pro-family public-policy organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah: Sutherland Statement on Salt Lake City Nondiscrimination Ordinances and LDS  [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] Support In response to the November ...
  2 days ago

• House committee to hold vote on ENDA

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 137
  From HRC: The Human Rights Campaign can now confirm the House Education and Labor Committee will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. on legislation to end the widespread practice of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity . The vote was noticed ...
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• When Dick Wears a Skirt and Jane a Tuxedo: School Dress Codes Redefined

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  When I was a teenager in high school, we didn’t wear uniforms. At least not officially. Whatever clothing items were most in style at the time is what most kids wore, with one fad sweeping like a wave over the student population only to be replaced by another several weeks later. Of course, the coolest kids were ...
  3 days ago

• Mormon Church Decision to Embrace Pro-Homosexual Laws Could Presage Split in Pro-Family Movement

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 615
  By Peter LaBarbera, www.aftah.org Dear Readers, We may be witnessing the “official” split of the American pro-family movement against homosexuality into two camps: the principled groups and churches that oppose all efforts to recognize and approve homosexuality as normal (AFTAH is in this camp); and “soft” ...
  3 days ago

• BREAKING: Committee to hold vote on ENDA

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  The Human Rights Campaign can now confirm the House Education and Labor Committee will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. on legislation to end the widespread practice of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  The vote was noticed moments ago.The Employment ...
  3 days ago

• MI: Two Gay Rights Villas Move in House

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Last week the Michigan legislature saw promising movement on two bills for LGBT rights in the state. Both measures - one to amend the state constitution to allow same-sex marriage, the other to amend the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include LGBT protections - likely face the same fate as the stalled hate crimes ...
  3 days ago

• Is Utah Becoming More Gay-Friendly?

  
  Feminists For Choice — Authority: 520
  I was pretty shocked by the news last week that an out gay candidate won a seat on the Salt Lake City Council . I was shocked, though, when I heard that the city council passed a nondiscrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity. The Mormon Church had initially opposed the law, but they ...
  3 days ago

• Increasing Support for Proposed Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination on Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is moving through both houses of Congress.  A similar law in Salt Lake City picked up unexpected support from the Church of Latter-Day Saints.      The ...
  3 days ago

• What Was Going On While Everyone Was Talking About Maine

  
  Gender & Sexuality Law Blog — Authority: 418
  Unless you were living in a cave you should be aware that a week ago Tuesday the people of Maine decided to pass on marriage rights for same-sex couples.  Commentators described it as not only “ a harsh blow to the gay marriage drive, ” but “ a major set back to gay rights ,” and “ a tremendous and ...
  4 days ago

• Stuff Progressive Anti-Racist White Guys Do: Erase Sex/Gender

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  We have seen before how white male anti-racist writers have a tendency to erase issues of sex and gender from their critiques of society. For as much insight as some progressives, liberals, and anti-racist folks have with respect to race, some people have remarkably little insight when it comes to their own blind ...
  4 days ago

• Ft. Worth Adds Transgenders to Non-Discrimination Ordinance

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 677
  Ft. Worth City Council last night expanded the city’s non-discrimination ordinance to include transgender people by a 6-3 vote. City council also discussed a broader range of issues important to the LGBT community, including offering domestic-partner benefits and expanding the city health insurance plan to cover ...
  4 days ago

• The Mormon Church Throws A Crumb – Salt Lake City OK’s Gay Rights Law

  
  Back2Stonewall.com — Authority: 140
  By a unanimous vote last night Salt Lake City became the first Utah community to prohibit bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Under the two new ordinances, it is illegal to fire someone from their job or evict someone from their residence because they are lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender.The ...
  4 days ago

• Who’s Your Daddy?

  
  Mombian — Authority: 475
  As promised, here is another in my series of quotes from Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting . I’ll be running them for a couple of weeks courtesy of the book’s editor, Rachel Epstein. I’m choosing the quotes I feel are most intriguing and thought provoking; I don’t always agree with the ...
  4 days ago

• Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? When Gender Bends the Dress Code.

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 427
  By JAN HOFFMAN BY now, most high school dress codes have just about done away with the guesswork. Girls: no midriff-baring blouses, stiletto heels, miniskirts. Boys: no sagging pants, muscle shirts. But do the math. “Rules” + “teenager” = “challenges.” If the skirt is an acceptable length, can a ...
  6 days ago

• Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act: Anti-gays Hyperventilate, Crimes Against Ladies Ignored

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  In October 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that expands federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a persons actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The previous law permitted prosecution of hate ...
  6 days ago

• Joint Statement from 32 LGBT Groups on Hate Crimes Act

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 437
  A joint statement was released last week on the occasion of President Barack Obama signing hate crimes legislation into law : History in the Making It took much too long, more than a decade. And it came at too great a price: the brutal killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. are just two among the ...
  1 week ago

• Article about transgender Armenian in Ankakh weekly (in Armenian): Gago or Anna? (female by passport only)

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 127
  This article about transgender Armenian  appeared in Ankakh weekly in June 2009, but I missed it back than. Thanks to GayArmenia.com for bringing this to my attention. Գագո՞, թե՞ Աննա. անձնագրով իգական է, իսկ կյանքում` արական Գագոն տղամարդ ...
  1 week ago

• Dept. of Justice testimony on ENDA: Pass it now

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Civil Rights division says that the Administration strongly supports fully-inclusive legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Dept. of Justice testimony on ENDA: Pass it now is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of Websites. Arizona: Tucson Phoenix ...
  1 week ago

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