Tag Archives: Queer Nation
Hostilities escalate as GOP approves anti-LGBT platform
Even Log Cabin Republicans expressed fury this week over the Republican Party platform's hostility to LGBT people. And the Human Rights Campaign said it is "prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to defeat” the Trump-Pence ticket.
Speed Read: No religious exemption
President Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow that prohibits federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people but, importantly, it does not provide a new exemption to allow contractors to claim a religious-based need to discriminate.
Russia to create ‘protest zone’ for Olympics
The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that Russian authorities “plan to set up a protest zone in the city of Sochi.”
Speed Read: Thursday 10 October 2013
New Jersey Governor wants the people to decide the marriage issue, and polls show 62 percent are for marriage equality. Groups concerned about the anti-gay laws in Russia are promoting the idea of using a code word to protest and