Today, Equality Florida is thrilled announce the launch “Equality Means Business,” a project to spotlight employers in Florida that demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting diversity and that specifically provide protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trandgender (LGBT) employees. We’ve long known that protecting employees from discrimination is the right thing to do. Now, more and [...]
Looks like the people over at Microsoft are either ultra-sensitive to anyone using a gay slur, or perhaps simply not down with any reference to perceived homosexuality as a guy from Fort Gay, WV had his XBOX gaming privileges suspended because the company found the name somehow offensive. According to a post on The Daily Caller:
A message about ENDA from Rea Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is about jobs — plain and simple! It’s shocking that in 2010, it is still legal to discriminate against LGBT people in the workplace. ENDA will do nothing more than provide basic protections that should have [...]
Earlier today, Maryland’s Democratic Governor, Martin O’Malley told reporters that he would sign a bill legalizing gay marriage in the Old Line State if he is reelected and such a bill is presented after passing through the state’s General Assembly. O’Malley made the comment on WTOP, which is his most direct public comment on [...]
Glenn Beck, one of the highest paid political mouthpieces of the right wing tried to say that gay marriage wasn’t a threat to America. He also tried to say that his recent rally held in the same place and on the same date as the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a [...]
James Franco is no stranger to playing gay roles in films which may be one reason why he’s so well suited for his latest upcoming portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in “Howl“, a cinematic drama based on the obscenity trial Ginsberg endured in 1957 after the publication of his poem, Howl (click to read), an eclectic [...]
Monica Marquez who is an openly gay Latina has become the first openly gay and first Latina justice to be appointed to Colorado’s state Supreme Court. Yesterday Colorado’s Governor, Bill Ritter (D) named Marquez to fill a vacancy on the court. Marquez currently serves as deputy Colorado attorney general and previously served as president of [...]
This one cracks me up! Some of the same pundits who fervently oppose the building of a Islamic center in New York City close to Ground Zero, wrongfully dubbed the “Ground Zero Mosque” as it is neither at Ground Zero or a Mosque, are now speaking out against the plans set forth by a Gainesville, [...]
Good news for gay UK Travelers as KLM, the Royal Dutch Airline, has launched its first ever gay online gay getaway game in those lucky UK. boys and girls. The airline, has long been a staunch supporter of the gay community in the Netherlands and has previously worked [...]
Since the tea-party first reared it’s ugly head after the election of President Obama, it became evident in a relatively short period of time that the chants about how they want to “take back America” were not a gay or Black friendly voice echoing freedom, liberty and justice for all, but rather how the White [...]
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