"A little lemonade can go a long way," and that's exactly what happened when 5 and a half year old Jayden Sink decided to sell her Pink Lemonade for Peace this weekend. Her stand was located in front of the beautifully-painted rainbow Equality House that is located across from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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05/22/13
USA Today published an op-ed by Wayne Perry, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, in which he urges the 1,400 voting members gathering in Dallas to vote to allow gay youth to be a part of Scouting.
05/22/13
GLAAD wrapped up its press conference in Dallas, as 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts of America National Council meet in Dallas to vote on a resolution critical to equality in Scouting. Get a full recap of today's events and see a video of James Dale speaking about the anti-gay ban by following our live blog at www.glaad.org/scouts.
05/22/13
SB 1218, a Texas bill which was geared to restrict transgender Texans from getting marriage licenses has died.
05/22/13
Visit http://www.glaad.org/scouts for our live, up-to-the minute coverage of the Boy Scout vote in Dallas, Texas.
05/21/13
Tomorrow, New York City council speaker Christine Quinn along with Empire State Pride Agenda and members LGBT advocacy organizations, including the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, and The Ali Forney Center will march on the steps of City Hall, in New York City.
05/21/13
After thousands of local advocates, including GLAAD, marched through New York City's West Village in response to the recent series of alleged anti-LGBT attacks, and to mourn the murder of Mark Carson, and openly gay man of color, more attacks have been reported.
05/20/13
Across the United States, millions of seniors are getting ready to walk across the stage in graduation ceremonies. This time can bittersweet for transgender students. Two instances of transgender students, in different parts of the country, have reminded us that schools can often fail to support transgender students and treat them with respect.
05/20/13
The Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America has announced that it will open to gay youth and adults.
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06/07/13
A gay couple is pursuing a discrimination complaint against a Colorado bakery, saying the business refused them a wedding cake to honor their Massachusetts ceremony, and alleging that the owners have a history of turning away same-sex couples.
06/06/13
A Colorado gay couple says civil unions made it possible for them both to be listed as their son's mothers on his birth certificate from the beginning.
06/06/13
A man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to assault and hate crime charges in connection with an attack on a transgender woman in San Francisco’s Mission District early Monday morning.
06/06/13
The sponsor of an Arizona bill targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with says he's giving up on the issue this Legislative session.
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06/06/13
There’s consensus among national gay organizations to back a campaign to overturn Ohio’s same-sex marriage ban. But unusual events yesterday showed there’s no agreement on when that should happen.
06/06/13
A Minneapolis couple, together for 11 years, is first in line to get a Hennepin County marriage license under the state's new same-sex marriage law.
06/06/13
Are you gay? If you want to be accepted, your best bet is a rich country full of Catholics.