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Withers: What matters to the Tea Party? Fiscal or social issues?

James Withers — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:30:07 +0000

This Talking Points Memo story is worth a gander. William Temple, Tea Party Founding Fathers chairman, is willing to accept a deal on the debt ceiling. However, if the Republican leadership(...)

South Carolina Pulls Plug On Gay Tourism Ads

logointern1 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:23 +0000

(Columbia, South Carolina) South Carolina’s tourism agency has slapped the wrist of its ad manager and is refusing to go ahead and pay for a campaign to attract gay tourists from Britain.

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Hospital Sued After Dying Lesbian’s Partner Denied Access To Her

logointern1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:00:58 +0000

(Miami, Florida) A lawsuit will be filed in Miami Wednesday against a hospital that refused to allow the partner of a dying lesbian to see because they were not considered family. The suit will be filed by Lambda Legal which is representing Janice Langbehn. Langbehn and Lisa Pond had planned to take their three children [...]

Abstinence Only Program Moving Toward Renewal

logointern1 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:27 +0000

(Washington) Despite a growing body of evidence showing it is not only ineffective but also discriminatory toward LGBT youth a renewal of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only-until-marriage program for schools appears likely in Congress. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies has voted to continue funding the Community-Based Abstinence [...]

Teens Charged In Beating Of Lesbian Student

logointern1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:42 +0000

(Wayland, Michigan) Two Michigan teenagers have been charged with aggravated assault in the beating of a third girl because she is a lesbian. Because all three girls are minors their names cannot be published. Police said that the 14-year old victim was attacked in a hallway at Wayland Union High School because she was an [...]

Budapest Police Lift Gay Pride March Ban

logointern1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:00:01 +0000

(Budapest) Under international pressure Budapest’s police chief Friday lifted a ban imposed a day earlier on this year’s Gay Pride parade. Fifteen Hungarian LGBT groups, a Hungarian member of the European Parliament, the mayor of Budapest and International Lesbian and Gay Association-Europe all denounced the decision to bar the parade. Chief Gabor Toth said the [...]

Budapest Police Ban Gay Pride Parade

logointern1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:00:42 +0000

(Budapest) LGBT rights groups are expressing outrage over an order signed by Budapest’s police chief barring a gay pride march that was scheduled for July 5. In a letter to pride organizers Chief Gabor Toth said the parade would obstruct major traffic routes in the center of the Hungarian capital. Toth suggested that instead of [...]

Nashville Schools To Protect LGBT Students

logointern1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:00:32 +0000

(Nashville, Tennessee) Nashville’s Metro School Board has unanimously approved changes to the code of student conduct to protect students from discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity. The new policy also will cover school employees. The vote came two months after a coalition of LGBT students and advocacy groups appeared before the board to advocate [...]

Transgender Rights Spread, But Opposition Mounts

logointern1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:00:51 +0000

(New York City) As more state and local governments extend anti-bias protections to transgender people, fierce opposition is surfacing. In Colorado, conservatives contend a new state law will enable sexual predators to frequent women’s bathrooms; in Maryland a “Not My Shower” campaign seeks to overturn a comparable county law. Though frustrated by the resistance, and [...]

RI Lesbian Divorce Battle Loses Another Round

logointern1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:00:15 +0000

(Providence, Rhode Island) A lesbian married in Massachusetts and seeking a divorce in her home state of Rhode Island has lost another court battle, this time in Superior Court. Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston were married in Massachusetts in 2004. Because Rhode Island has no specific law banning same-sex marriage gay and lesbian couples can go [...]