Day: April 19, 2011
Malaysian schoolboys sent to gay ‘cure’ camp
Malaysian authorities have sent 66 Muslim schoolboys to a gay ‘cure’ camp after school teachers identified them as being effeminate.
U.S. Taxpayers Spending $520 Per Hour Defending Discrimination
In order to defend discrimination by any means necessary, House Republican leaders have contracted with the law firm King & Spalding at the rate of $520 an hour to argue that they’re right to deny recognition to legally married couples, according to the contract made public today.
Obama Needs a Job
As Americans head to the ballot box in November 2012, they will be asking themselves a fundamental question: Am I better off than I was 4 years ago?
Equality Virginia and HRC Ask State Board of Social Services to Reject Commissioner’s Recommendation and Approve Rules Prohibiting Discrimination
Equality Virginia and the Human Rights Campaign today called on the Virginia State Board of Social Services to reject recommended amendments proposed in a memo from the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services dated April 20, 2011 [sic] and earlier advice from the Attorney General and approve publication and implementation of rules governing licensed child placing agencies that include a provision barring discrimination based on sexual orientation against prospective adoptive and foster parents.
Author donates 10% of profits of newest novel to PFLAG New Orleans
In “A Time Before Us,” the follow-up to “A Time Before Me” and “Falling Into Me,” author Michael Holloway Perronne explores how family is determined not by the blood that flows through us but by the love in our hearts in post-Katrina New Orleans.