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.
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11/03/08
The NO on Prop 8 campaign released a new ad that features quotes and pictures of Sen. Barack Obama, Gov.
10/24/08
This weekend, folks in Nashville, Tennessee are in for a one-of-a-kind faith conference that helps LGBT participants
10/24/08
10/24/08
Business owners have received threatening letters, incl
10/24/08
Proponents of California’s Proposition 8 have been talking about everything but taking away the right of gay couples
10/23/08
The below post is by Sarah Kennedy, the Central Region’s Media Field Strategist here at GLAAD.
10/22/08
Arkansas Families First, a coalition of citizens who oppose a ballot initiative that would ban adoption by unmarried
10/13/08
Recently GLAAD's Central Region Media Field Strategist, Sarah Kennedy, visited Kansas City, Missouri, to participate
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11/29/12
Delegates with the Eastern District Conference of the Mennonite Church decided to end the group's "liaison relationship" with the Germantown Mennonite Church (GMC). GMC Pastor Amy Yoder McGloughlin told NewsWorks on Monday that she suspected that GMC's acceptance of LGBT members played a role.
11/29/12
A meeting will be held at Virginia Commonwealth University on Thursday to discuss the termination of former women's volleyball head coach, James Finley. Finley says he lost his job, because he is gay.
11/28/12
Police in Virginia are searching for a transgender teen who has been missing for more than a week. Sage Smith, 19, was last seen Nov. 20, in the 500 block of West Main Street in Charlottesville.
11/28/12
A South Florida teen was brutally beaten by a man at a gas station, and she says it was because of her sexual orientation. Nineteen-year-old Nachrisha Cash has cuts, welts and bruises on her face after she said she was a victim of a vicious beating outside a gas station.
11/28/12
The Maine Ethics Commission fined the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage for the late filing of a campaign finance report that detailed $800,000 in contributions from the Washington, D.C.-based group to the lead campaign opposing Maine's ballot initiative on marriage equality.
11/28/12
The Washington state Health Department will be changing marriage and divorce certificates in response to the same-sex marriage law that takes effect Dec. 6.
11/28/12
"It's not a hate crime at all," said Ally Hawkins. "We both know the reason why this happened, and it doesn't make any excuses for him, I'm not defending him at all. I know why he was angry, and that will come out."
11/28/12
In its newest edition of CD Summary, the Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division, explores health disparities experienced by those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, versus those who identify as heterosexual.