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All Posts Tagged With: "barack obama"

Gay-lesbian group overcomes opposition at U.N.

Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations on Monday accredited a major gay and lesbian organization that Egypt, Russia and others had tried to keep out as a group permitted to lobby at the world body. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a U.S.-based advocacy group, had applied for “consultative status” at [...]

20Jul2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Obama hosts White House LGBT reception

WASHINGTON, (UPI) — U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a reception at the White House Tuesday to honor Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. Obama, who has been criticized by many gays and lesbians because the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on open service by homosexuals remains in place, said the United States [...]

24Jun2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Obama extends civil rights in hospitals

* Laura Hutchinson SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – President Barack Obama is taking what is being called a major step toward fairness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. Hospitals across the country will soon be forced to start doing what many hospitals here in Western Massachusetts are already doing. President Barack Obama is calling on [...]

17Apr2010 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

30 years after gay march, activists head to DC

By LISA LEFF (AP) SAN FRANCISCO — A Democrat in the White House. Demands for sweeping civil rights protections. Religious opponents working to undo a string of state-based victories. That was the backdrop in 1979 when gay rights activists staged their first national march in Washington. Thirty years later, with the landscape looking much the [...]

6Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Obama White House not appealing transgender ruling

By NEDRA PICKLER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is not going to fight a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman. The Justice Department let the deadline to appeal the decision pass Tuesday, a day after President [...]

2Jul2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued