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Lady Gaga coming to New Jersey to support gay marriage
Garden State Equality is one of several groups who will benefit from the Atlantic City event
BY JEN CALANTONE
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The eccentric pop-star Lady Gaga will be bringing her “poker face” to the House of Blues at the Showboat Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City on Jan. 16 — but it won’t be to promote her latest single.
The [...]
Is Transgender on Your Agenda?
Ethiopian Review
As first days on the job go, Amanda Simpson’s, on Wednesday of this week, was a doozy. Just appointed Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security, Simpson took on the challenge of beefing up homeland, economic, and cyber security just as public concern about our transportation system’s vulnerability [...]
Chamblee to protect gay workers
By April Hunt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Chamblee has become the latest Georgia city – all of them at least partially in DeKalb County – to prohibit discrimination against gay and lesbian municipal workers.
Atlanta, Clarkston, Decatur and Doraville are the other cities in the state to offer such protection to workers.
“If you’re gay or lesbian, you shouldn’t be [...]
New York state lawmakers reject gay marriage bill
By MICHAEL GORMLEY (AP)
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates who weathered a similar decision by Maine voters just last month.
The New York measure needed 32 votes to pass and failed by a wider-than-expected margin, falling eight votes [...]
Latin America’s first gay marriage thwarted
By VANESSA HAND ORELLANA, Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine couple’s attempt to unite in Latin America’s first gay marriage was thwarted Tuesday when city officials decided to block the wedding because of conflicting judicial rulings.
Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre showed up at the Buenos Aires civil registry office despite a national [...]
Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays
By VANESSA HAND ORELLANA (AP)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina’s capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage.
Jose Maria Di Bello and his partner Alex Freyre won the right to get married when a judge ruled last week that ban on [...]
Uruguay congress legalizes sex changes
(AFP)
MONTEVIDEO — Uruguay’s congress Monday approved a sex change law, the latest liberal move by the tiny South American nation which has also given the nod to civil unions for gays and adoptions by gay couples.
The sex change bill, approved by the Senate on Monday and last month by the Chamber of Deputies, sets the [...]
American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers
AFL-CIO Convention Passes Historic Resolution on Diversity
From Windy City Times
PITTSBURGH, PA — If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the podium last [...]
Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is calling for an October march on Washington to demand that Congress establish equal rights for the lesbian, gay and transgender community.
Cleve Jones said Sunday in Salt Lake City that the march will launch a nationwide grass roots campaign.
He [...]
Group Begins Ad Blitz Against Same-Sex Marriage
By JEREMY W. PETERS – New York Times
The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative Christian group that has fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in California and in the Northeast, has set its sights on New York with its latest media campaign.
Beginning Thursday in the New York City and Albany markets, the organization will run [...]
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