Month: January 2011
Yale University Shouldn’t Make LGBT Employees Pay for Their Mistake
The Human Rights Campaign – the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation – today expressed concern for the financial hardship that some Yale employees now face as a result of the University’s failure to withhold federal taxes on domestic partner health benefits in 2010.
HRC to North Carolina Rep. Larry Brown: Apologize for Your Hateful and Extremist Statements
Yesterday in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal, North Carolina State Representative Larry Brown said “the government should not spend money to treat adults with HIV or AIDS who ‘caused it by the way they live.”
Halton Catholic board to revisit ban on gay-straight student clubs
The Halton Catholic District School Board will take a second look at its controversial policy banning gay-straight student clubs at its schools.
Do Words Really Matter to Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
As news came this weekend of the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords D-AZ, friends and colleagues rightly offered condolences and praise for the popular politico. Particularly close friend and ally Debbie Wasserman-Schultz D-FL issued a statement from her home district about the terrible event, where several bystanders were also killed or maimed.
Gay Ski Week Comes to Telluride Feb. 26-March 5
When the famed Telluride AIDS Benefit Fashion Show takes the runway during Telluride’s Gay Ski Week in March, it will be in large part due to Mountain Lodge at Telluride.