Tuesday, September 17, 2013

GLBT News Headlines (T8T-6)

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Chelsea Face And Body is now offering buy one, get one free medspa service, with an aesthetician or certified laser technician, for you and your partner/friend/lover/husband/wife to honor the overturning of section 3 of the Defense of...
9/16/2013

(Rapid City, SD, September 16, 2013) â€" Today Lambda Legal announced a landmark settlement for Cori McCreery, a transgender woman in South Dakota who was terminated from her job after she informed her employer that she would be taking steps to transition from male to female at work.

9/13/2013

(Dallas, TX, September 13, 2013) â€" Lambda Legal today sent a letter to the commanding general of Texas Military Forces urging him to abide by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) guidelines and allow married same-sex military couples to register for federal benefits at any military base in the state.

A New Delhi community organization offers care and counseling, but also empowers gay, lesbian and transgender people. NEW DELHI â€" Khushi Kumari had long kept her sexuality a secret, living alone like many of this sprawling city's gay, lesbian and transgender residents.        
Initiated as small, defiant, sexually daring protests, gay pride parades have become mainstream spectacles patronized by corporate sponsors and straight politicians as they spread nationwide. For many gays, who prize the events' edginess, the shift is unwelcome â€" as evidenced by bitter debate preceding Sunday's parade in Dallas.
BOSTON (AP) â€" Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders has set up a new website to provide helpful information to young people in New England about their legal rights in school, sports, work and the juvenile justice system.        
The National Organization for Marriage, seemingly determined to admit that its agenda does (and always did) go far beyond marriage, is now using the far-right phrase "the homosexual lifestyle" and going after companies who support it: [NOM] Oh please, please,...
Ranging from the eradication of poverty to the combatting of HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are an eight-part UN initiative designed to tackle global problems that most all of us can surely agree need solving. But now we have...
Paul Scalia is involved in the Catholic version of "pray away the gay"â€"that is no secret. As the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Courage organization, telling gays they are to live a "chaste" life seems to be...
His cause is not banning anyone because gay people can still have religious ceremonies. Thus goes the latest bout of discrimination justification from one Robert George: NOM co-founder's reliable sleight of hand [NOM EXPOSED]
The Connecticut Family Institute is claiming "betrayal" after a local state senator who is running for Congress as a Republican came out in support of marriage equality: Former state Sen. Dan Debicella, a Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 4th...
Calling it the civil rights issue of our day, Vice President Joe Biden tossed in some supportive comments during a weekend (campaign?) speech in Iowa: Remember when Democratic candidates for President were fumbling over themselves to think of the best...


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