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Transgender students face discrimination at graduation
Monday, May 20, 2013
2:48pm

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.

11/04/09
Openly LGBT Candidates Win Elections Across the Country | 11/04/09

While Maine was a setback in the fight for equality, around the country local elections yielded encouraging results.

11/03/09
Update: Dallas Morning News Corrects Problematic Article Following GLAAD Outreach | 11/03/09

10/30/09
Take Advantage of the Early Bird Tickets for Trevor Project’s Cracked X-Mas in Los Angeles | 10/30/09

The Trevor Project would like to invite all members of GLAAD to their 12th annual Cracked X-Mas event on Sunday, Dec

10/30/09
Latest Statewide LGBT Developments | 10/30/09

Every week at state and local levels, there are numerous developments taking place about the many key issues that de

10/30/09
Support Mounts for Kalamazoo Nondiscrimination Ordinance | 10/30/09

10/28/09
Bea Arthur leaves 300k in her will to the Ali Forney Center | 10/28/09
10/28/09
GLAAD Calls for The Dallas Morning News To Issue Retraction | 10/28/09

10/27/09
Actress Michelle Clunie Says, “Approve 71” | 10/27/09

Michelle Clunie, an actress and activist, released a video today that encourages Washington voters to

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Same-sex taxes if DOMA dies
12/17/12

From a financial standpoint, same-sex married couples have much to gain - and some to lose - if the Supreme Court overturns the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Newlyweds celebrate knot that was 5 decades in tying
12/17/12

They met at a New Year’s party in San Francisco in 1958. Saturday, nearly 54 years later, they wed.

OPINION: Respect gender identity in Maine
12/17/12

In 2005, Maine voters endorsed a law protecting gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals...Nonetheless, the question of whether businesses and public entities in Maine have to allow transgender individuals to use bathrooms consistent with their own sense of who they are as male or female — their gender identity — rather than their “assigned” sex at birth has proved quarrelsome.

Poll: Hoosiers split on marriage equality
12/17/12

Indiana residents are evenly split on legalizing marriage equality, although a majority of them do not want to amend the state constitution to ban it, according to a new poll.

Gay rights group lauds PPL transgender policy change
12/17/12

A Pennsylvania gay rights group is praising Allentown-based PPL Corp. for adding gender identity to its non-discrimination policy.

Decision on 'ex-gay therapy' ban depends on other rulings
12/17/12

The fate of a new California law that would prohibit doctors and therapists from trying to change a minor's sexual orientation depends in part on rulings in other cases in which the government tried to restrict physicians' communications with their patients.

NY Firefighter Acquitted of Assault Against Transgender Girlfriend
12/17/12

A Manhattan jury acquitted a New York firefighter of several assault chargers brought against him by an ex-girlfriend, a transgender model who was once a contestant on the popular reality show "America’s Next Top Model."

EXCLUSIVE: DA reopens unsolved 1992 case involving the 'saint of gay life'
12/17/12

Prosecutors will take a fresh look at the 1992 death of gay icon and “mayor of Christopher Street” Marsha P. Johnson, the Daily News has learned.

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