Tag Archives: United Nations
LGBT Afghans: With no way out, it’s hide to survive
LGBT Afghans are in hiding as the Taliban conducts house to house searches to eliminate them. Their only hope is to seek asylum, but to apply for asylum, they have to first get out of the country at a time
Trump appointees: The trend and the hope
Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education has contributed heavily to anti-gay ballot measures but demanded the resignation of a state party official whose anti-gay rhetoric she thought went too far. The trend on many of Trump's appointees thus far is
Summer Finale: ‘doing this stupid thing’
A Seventh Circuit panel grilled attorneys for Indiana and Wisconsin this week over their reasons for banning marriage for same-sex couples. The Supreme Court extended a stay last week on a Fourth Circuit decision that Virginia's ban on marriage for
Speed Read: All eyes on Supreme Court
Seven major LGBT groups have withdrawn their support for ENDA, amidst a raging debate over whether the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision is good or bad for the community and whether the LGBT community should accept a religious exemption to
Speed Read: Messing with Texas
The Tenth Circuit hears its second same-sex marriage appeal this afternoon. The United Nations is admonishing Brunei for its new requirement of stoning to death people who engage in sodomy. And four couples in Ohio get some limited relief from
Speed Read: U.N. dings Vatican
A United Nations report openly criticizes the Vatican for contributing to the stigmatizing of gays and their children. Clay Aiken tosses his hat into the ring. Obama tries another nominee for Florida.
Speed Read: Wednesday 11 December 2013
Russian authorities have decided to create a "protest zone" in Sochi for the Winter Olympics. Leaders of the U.S. Senate and House armed services committee have a final funding bill for FY 14 but some of the provisions are worrisome.
Romney names gay to foreign affairs team
Republican presidential nominee apparent Mitt Romney has begun his run toward the political middle, and one aspect of that shift appears to have been the choosing an openly gay man to his team of campaign advisors.
Obama steps up global push on LGBT rights
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today (Tuesday, December 6) called on the governments of all nations to ensure that their LGBT citizens are treated with respect and dignity. In doing so, she also announced that President Obama was
