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Ted Millar: The Supreme Court Shocks the Nation With Anti-Sex Discrimination Ruling This decision--the culmination of three cases--is shocking many considering the decision's author is Donald Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch. The fight is far from over. It will never be over. We got this far because of our relentless commitment to justice and a more egalitarian, compassionate country. 1 1 Comment Count
Adomas Abromaitis: Lithuania: to serve or not to serve in the army It is well known that in 2015 Lithuanian authorities reintroduced compulsory military service due to the potential threat caused by the Russian Federation. It should be said, that young Lithuanians do not appreciate the idea and try to avoid the service in every possible way. 2 2 Comment Count
Will Warren Gender Play Work? A Washington Post article notes Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- fresh from a gender spat with progressive rival Sen. Bernie Sanders -- is stressing gender as she campaigns against the backdrop of the third annual Women's March.  The initial March, the paper notes, allowed women to vent their anger at President Donald Trump, who has a reputation for treating women poorly both personally and in terms of policy positions.The artic...
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Ted Millar: A Salvadoran Transgender Woman Refused Asylum Has Been Murdered Because of the Trump administration's draconian immigration policy, another Salvadoran transgender woman is dead. 31-year-old sex worker, Camila Díaz Córdova, applied for U.S. asylum in August 2017 due to death threats and extortion. Her request was denied. She returned to her previous life in San Salvador, was kidnapped, beaten, and died in a hospital a few weeks ago, February 3.
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Daniel Vasey: FYI: Australia's Plebiscite on Same-Sex Marriage Same-sex marriage, Australian politics, religion and state 3 3 Comment Count

What Percentage of the U.S. Population is Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual? A survey released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports:"Based on the 2013 National Health Interview Survey data, 96.6% of adults identified as straight, 1.6% identified as gay or lesbian, and 0.7% identified as bisexual.  The remaining 1.1% of adults identified as “something else,” stated “I don’t know the answer,” or refused to provide an answer." ... 11 11 Comment Count
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Mike Ghouse: Congressman Peter King Owes an Apology to Muslims No American uses the N word or Anti-Semitic statements and gets away with it, now thanks to the Supreme Court, Gay bashing will be gone. That leaves Hispanic immigrants and Muslims. With Amnesty, hopefully xenophobia will be reduced but Americans together need to stand up and put a stop to irresponsible statements made against fellow Americans. 2 2 Comment Count
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Rob Groce: A Community Response to Homophobic Legislation A South Carolina legislator reduced funding at two state universities for their use of books that mention homosexuality. The local community's responded with clever protest, however. 3 3 Comment Count
David Smith: *UGANDA - Human Rights Emergency unfolding for LGBT's Human rights atrocities are unfolding and will take a serious turn for the worse unless action is taken RIGHT NOW. President Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda, with a penalty of life imprisonment for "aggravated homosexuality." 1 1 Comment Count
Citizen News Service - CNS: Long road to justice and equality for LGBTI people The recently concluded 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (7th APCRSHR) in Manila saw some interesting discussions on protecting and advancing Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity (SOGI) rights and improving their access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services.
Citizen News Service - CNS: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A distant reality? (Based on an interview with Dr Amita Pandey, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King George's Medical University - KGMU.) Before 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (7th APCRSHR) opens in Manila later this week, Citizen News Service (CNS) spoke with Dr Amita Pandey on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) challenges in India.
Citizen News Service - CNS: 'Sexual and reproductive health issues do not exist in isolation' The theme of the 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (7th APCRSHR), which opened in Manila on 21st January, 2014, is: Examining achievements, good practices, lessons learned and challenges: towards a strategic positioning of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights. Currently abortions are illegal and unconstitutional in Philippines, and yet the country has more than 500,000 abortions ...
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San Francisco Trans March to honor Bradley Manning at opening of PRIDE 2013 The San Francisco Pride Board of Directors announced on Friday that it will not reinstate Bradley Manning as a 2013 Pride Parade Grand Marshal but the Dyke and Trans Marches have both said that they will honor Bradley Manning at their Pride Weekend events. The Trans March will present an award certificate to Bradley Manning, to be accepted by a trans member of the Bradley Manning Support Committee, as Pride Weekend begins. Nea...

Oops! Don't Tell Fox News They've Got Pic Of Lesbian Couple For Column On Traditional Marriage Gender Roles A Fox News column about traditional gender roles in marriage is accidentally accompanied by a photograph of two lesbian newly-weds exchanging a kiss. The column in question was written by Suzanne Venker, the niece of social conservative hero Phyllis Schlafly, and previous author of the roundly-panned column on how it's all women's fault that there is a "battle of the sexes."
Gay Lawmakers' Growing Presence Suggests Shift in Attitudes In the 113th Congress there are six openly gay or bisexual members in the House -- a small but tangible sign that their presence at the highest levels of government is no longer something only whispered about. The Senate has its first lesbian, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. The lawmakers' partners, no longer relegated to the shadows or introduced generically as "friends," stood beside them on the House floor when they were sworn ...
Tom Engelhardt: Rebecca Solnit: The Longest War The Republican "war on women" helped define 2012. Its main offensives are well known, including the assertion that you can't get pregnant from rape; the obstruction of the Violence Against Women Act because it would have given Native American courts more jurisdiction over domestic violence; demonizing a woman who dared to assert that all women, rich and poor, deserve access to contraception and laws limiting access to abortion
House GOP To Supreme Court: Gay People Are Too Powerful To Get Equal Rights For nearly two years, House Republicans paid conservative superlawyer Paul Clement $520 an hour to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in federal court -- and then sent the bill to the American taxpayer. In total Clement has now cost the American people up to $3 million for his efforts on behalf of this unconstitutional law. Last night, we taxpayers finally found out what we were paying for -- a 60 page brief explainin...
Marine Corps orders spouse clubs to admit same sex members or leave The U.S. Marine Corps has taken the advance step of requiring that all spouses clubs admit members of same sex couples or face being barred from base, according to The Associated Press. The move comes before the Department of Defense standardizes anti-discrimination policies across all branches of the military, in accordance with the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The rule change was caused by a controversy at Fort B...
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Pope: Future of Mankind at Stake Over Gay Marriage! Pope Benedict XVI has weighed in on a heated debate over gay marriage, criticising new concepts of the traditional family and warning that mankind itself was at stake. So now you know what really matters to the future of our species... 12 12 Comment Count
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Celebrities like Cyndi Lauper and Mike Ruiz using their power to help address the LGBTQ homeless youth crisis in NYC Celebrities such as Cyndi Lauper and Mike Ruiz, are using their power to bring focus to the LGBTQ homeless crisis in NYC.
Military Spouses Group Changes Membership Policies To Exclude Lesbian Ashley Broadwell's wife and partner of 15 years is an officer stationed at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, and now that the two are legally married, she sought to join the Officers' Spouse Club on base. Unfortunately, she was told she "does not qualify." It seems, however, that the group is going to extensive lengths to keep her out of the group, including arbitrary changes to its policy. The group told Broadwell that she could ...

Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage and parts of DOMA The Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said Monday they will review a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state's gay marriage ban, though on narrow grounds. The San Francisco-based appeals court said the state could not take a...

SPLC files groundbreaking lawsuit accusing conversion therapy organization of fraud The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit today accusing a New Jersey organization of consumer fraud for offering conversion therapy services -- a dangerous and discredited practice that claims to convert people from gay to straight. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey, charges that Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH), its founder, Arthur Goldberg, and counselor Alan...
Video surfaces of Romney's Vicious Anti-LGBT Family Remarks While Governor | Pam's House Blend One of two video clips that Waas has now uploaded to YouTube shows Romney speaking to conservative voters in South Carolina in 2005, as he was testing the waters for a presidential bid, discussing his battle with the Registry of Vital Statistics and Records regarding the birth certificate forms. Romney distorted the Registry of Vital Statistics' plan, which was to change the labeling of boxes on the forms from "father" and "mo...
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down DOMA In Opinion Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs is a very conservative judge. He joined a court decision effectively declaring corporations immune to international human rights law -- even when they "trade in or exploit slaves, employ mercenary armies to do dirty work for despots, perform genocides or operate torture prisons for a despot's political opponents, or engage in piracy." And he once gave a speech to the conservative Federalist Society de...
Dr. Cheryl Pappas: The Meticulous Political Dance of a Manic Media Shouldn't the media focus on essential issues in these last moments of Presidential campaign coverage? 10 10 Comment Count
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With promotion, U.S. Army welcomes first openly gay general During a promotion ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, a proud wife placed a star insignia on her spouse's uniformed shoulder -- the official mark of an Army brigadier general. With that simple gesture, Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith became the country's first openly gay general. 3 3 Comment Count
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Rev. Dan Vojir: No Martyrdom...Yet: Mollie Judith Olgin's Death Hangs On The Life of Mary Christine Chapa. The statement of a teenage lesbian is awaited by the world: and if it should point to a hate crime... 5 5 Comment Count
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Rev. Dan Vojir: The Nuns' Revolt: Why Benedict's Own "War On Women" Has Backfired. The nuns are revolting!! Nuns On The Bus have created a stir both nationally and in the Vatican: it's "war on women" is heating up and nuns now make it look quiet acrimonious and mean. And the nuns don't look to be backing down any time soon. 7 7 Comment Count
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Death for Gays? Not Really a Fringe Evangelical Thought We seem to be entering a period of exposure for extremist Christians with the latest being one Pastor Curtis Knapp of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, saying that gays should be killed. Such ideas are not fringe to those Christians who call themselves reconstructionists, meaning that they want the equivalent of Sharia law, a return to Old Testament law. They support the death penalty for gays, delinquent children and... 1 1 Comment Count

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