Silent Night! Endless night!All is dark, there’s no light.Cyclone clouds have blocked out the sky, We’re almost out of our dry-meat supply. Sleep in uneasy peace.We may have to eat Aunt Bernice. What the New Yorker is calling “Climate Change Carols” are
BOSTON (AP) — For the first time in its history, the sponsors of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade will allow a group representing the gay community to participate, drawing cheers from Mayor Martin Walsh, who boycotted the event last year
A new report from the LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) lists hundreds of retailers and their LGBT-friendly score. The purpose of the list is to encourage shoppers this holiday season to buy LGBT and to avoid companies that are not so enlightened.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has told New York health insurance companies they must cover sex-change operations and other treatments considered to be “medically necessary” to attempt to change a man or woman’s sex. The New York Times reports that Cuomo
A report from the left-wing Center for American Progress says gays, lesbians, and transsexuals will not fully realize the promise of America unless and until the Federal government extends to them widespread protection from all kinds of discrimination. The 76-page report calls
A 21-year-old transgender woman was fatally gunned down at 4 a.m. on Wednesday in Compton, Los Angeles, while pounding on the door of a home pleading for help. The homeowner came out after hearing multiple gunshots, but by then it was
The state board overseeing high school sports in Minnesota voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to permit male-to-female transgender students to participate in girls sports. After an aborted attempt earlier this year to institute controversial new “inclusive” rules for transgender players in
The number of gay Russians seeking asylum in the United States is increasing as anti-gay sentiment continues to rise in Russia. No U.S. government agency keeps track of the sexual orientation of asylum seekers, but Immigration Equality, a New York-based organization
Check out these arses. Not just any old arses, either, but proper, educated Cambridge University arses. On a miserable, cold day in which I have been laid low with man flu, these pert buttocks have restored my faith in the
In announcing the State Department’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, Secretary of State John Kerry invoked the name of Matthew Shepard, a gay young man who was murdered many years ago and whose death remains an iconic moment for those fighting
54 men have given birth in Australia in the last year alone, according to figures released by Medicare. A number of people identifying as men have also accessed abortions, the figures revealed. The trend for transsexual men to give birth
A lesbian couple tied the knot in Russia in a quiet ceremony seen as the first such marriage in the country where gay unions are illegal, activists told AFP Sunday. The marriage on Friday went through because one of the
The Iranian government– which punishes homosexuality by death– accepts the existence of transgendered individuals. The Ayatollah’s fatwa allowing gender reassignment surgery has led to immense pressure– and sometimes full enforcement– on cisgender homosexual men and women to undergo these dangerous
British faith schools are to be forced to teach equality and respect for gay rights or face closure, in a move backed by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. The orders come following 40 snap inspections of faith schools, including Christian and
The faculty of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) College of Letters and Sciences Friday voted a close 332 to 303, with 24 blank ballots, in a move toward forcing students to take a diversity course as part of
Last week, transgender military personnel from various countries allied with the United States convened a conference in Washington, DC to put pressure on the U.S. military to allow transgender soldiers to serve openly. Organizers claim more than 15,000 transgender soldiers now serve
Singapore’s highest court on Wednesday dismissed a constitutional challenge against an archaic law criminalising sex between men, striking a fresh blow to the city-state’s growing gay-rights movement. The Court of Appeal upheld rulings by lower courts that it was up
Transgender military personnel from a number of American allied countries met in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss what they say are the benefits of allowing open transgenders in active military service. Organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, the conference
In the unlikeliest of scenarios, the hardline leftist Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 is essentially supporting a GOP candidate for a seat on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors. James Fang, a Republican, is running
On October 17, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) indicated a willingness to lift the ban which prevents transgender persons from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces. According to the Washington Blade, Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill said, “Pelosi
The complicated world of gender re-assignment and racism has bitten the politically correct campus at the all female Wellesley College, as a student born female but choosing to become a man has been denied a spot in student government for
A U.S. Marine in the Philippines is being held in connection with the death of a transgender woman after finding out she was anatomically male “following a night at a local disco.” According to ABC News, the deceased–Jeffrey Laude–was a
Gov. Jerry Brown just signed a law requiring that California health care providers be trained to better understand the specific health needs of the LGBT community. The law is meant to target inequities in medical treatment for LGBT patients who,
Newly obtained surveillance video documents three men attacking and killing a transgender woman in what police now believe is an East Hollywood robbery gone bad. The transgender individual was walking down the street early Thursday morning when the three men
Whenever issues like sex and marriage are debated publicly in the Catholic Church, outlying radical organizations come out of the woodwork, trying to grab the spotlight for their own agendas for reform. The Vatican synod on marriage and family issues,
