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GLAAD joins march and rally against anti-LGBT hate violence in New York City
Sunday, May 19, 2013
12:22pm

Friday night in New York's Greenwich Village, police say a gunman, who is in custody but has yet to be identified, followed Mark Carson, taunting him with anti-gay slurs and homophobic language, before tragically shooting him in the head.

06/30/11
Presbyterian Church to Start Allowing Openly Gay Clergy July 10 | 06/30/11

06/29/11
It's Never Too Late to Open Your Heart/ Nunca es Demasiado Tarde para Abrir tu Corazón | 06/29/11

06/29/11
Religion News Updates for June 29, 2011 | 06/29/11

Ecumenical clergy

06/29/11
Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality Seeking Marriage Equality in New Jersey | 06/29/11

06/28/11
GLAAD Staff Celebrate the Trans Day of Action with the Audre Lorde Project in NYC | 06/28/11

06/28/11
Demand the Batesville Daily Guard Show Respect to Grieving Partner | 06/28/11

Last week, the Batesville Daily Guard took used its platform to insult and attack a local gay man – only da

06/27/11
LGBT Affirming People of Faith Speak Out on Marriage Equality | 06/27/11

In light of recent media portrayal of opponents of marriage equality as predominantly religious, GLAAD would like to

06/25/11
Hollywood Allies Celebrate NY Marriage Equality | 06/25/11

LGBT celebrities aren't the only ones excited about gaining marriage equality in New York state.  Many of the LGBT c

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Tennessee ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Now Requires Teachers To Inform Parents If Their Child Is Gay
01/30/13

Tennessee’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay‘ bill died with the adjournment of the state assembly last year. But now the measure is back — with new, harsher requirements.

First openly gay candidate running in Niagara Falls
01/30/13

Niagara Falls has a reputation as being slow to change. That’s why a 23-year-old city resident is turning heads as the first openly gay political candidate in city history.

PA school board to make decision on Gay-Straight Alliance club
01/30/13

Chambersburg Area school board will vote Wednesday whether to approve a new Gay-Straight Alliance club for Chambersburg Area Senior High School.

Delay in Transgender Stabbing Trial
01/30/13

Gary Niles Montgomery, the 56-year-old Washington man accused of stabbing and killing Deoni Jones, a transgender woman, at a Northeast D.C. bus stop, was today remanded to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for follow-up mental evaluations, nearly a year to the date after Jones was murdered.

Maryland lawmakers introduce transgender rights bill
01/30/13

Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban anti-transgender discrimination in the workplace, housing and public accommodations.

Formal charges filed against bar in transgender complaint case
01/30/13

Oregon's labor commissioner has filed formal charges of unlawful discrimination against a north Portland bar.

Gay-Straight Alliance says Wisconsin schools unsafe
01/30/13

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students are not safe in Wisconsin schools, representatives of the new Ashland High School Gay-Straight Alliance told the Ashland School Board on Monday night.

One San Diego gay Boy Scout's 'brutal day'
01/30/13

Maybe the most emotional conversation a gay teenager could have with his parents is coming out to them. Jeremy Zaida’s toughest exchange came soon after that. Zaida was 16 when he disclosed his sexual orientation to his parents over a couple days two summers ago.

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