Category Archives: News Briefs
Speed Read: Crowd cheers rainbows
The crowd at Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade Sunday cheered a group of gay men who walked behind a "diversity" float, tossing rainbow-colored beads to observers. Sam Adams beer makers and Heineken withdrew their sponsorship of the parades for excluding
Speed Read: 55 years together
Lawsuits challenging bans on same-sex couples marrying have been filed in three mores states: Arizona, Indiana, and Florida. And Uganda says the U.S. has suspended a significant amount of its AIDS funding over the U.S.'s displeasure with Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act.
Speed Read: Lesbian on the front lines
The Mississippi House appeared to come up short of support Wednesday for a bill to allow religious bias; the House replaced its bill with one to set up a committee to study religious freedom in the state. Lesbian union leader
Speed Read: Mississippi maybe
Attorneys for the National Organization for Marriage will depose gay activist Fred Karger today in a lawsuit in which NOM accuses the Internal Revenue Service of unlawful disclosure of confidential tax information to the Human Rights Campaign. The ACLU of
Speed Read: ‘Pacts of cohabitating”
The Mississippi House is expected to vote on a religious bias bill today. Pope Francis says the church should "evaluate" the benefits of civil unions. Rep. Mike Michaud is helping step up pressure on President Obama for an executive order.
Speed Read: Mississippi warning
An LGBT activist group sent out a “Travel Alert” March 6 warning LGBT people not to travel alone in Mississippi but some activists say LGBT people should converge on the state. Some fear a lawsuit in Indiana might stir a
Speed Read: Damned to hell
The state's final witness yesterday in a trial over Michigan's law banning same-sex couples from marrying told the court he thinks gays are eternally damned to hell. An Arizona state senator came out as gay this week. Four more men
Speed Read: Religious bias rejected
Eighty-one percent of adults surveyed said businesses should not be allowed to refuse service to gays, not even for religious beliefs. Wyoming becomes the 25th state to face a lawsuit challenging its ban on same-sex couples marrying, Boston Mayor says
Speed Read: ‘Bad for Mississippi’
The Mississippi House Judiciary Committee Tuesday advanced a religious bias bill to the House floor, which could vote on it as early as today. The Kentucky Attorney General announced yesterday he won't defend the constitutionality of the state's ban on
Speed Read: Religious boycott?
As a religious bias bill dies in the Georgia legislature, supporters of the measure vow a national boycott against the major corporations that spoke out against the measure. A religious bias bill in Mississippi could die today if a House
