Day: October 9, 2012
Mary McAleese supports gay marriage
She is not the first head of state to say it – but Mary McAleese supports gay marriage.
The Newly Updated Guide Is Released as a Growing Chorus of Straight Supporters Is Standing Up for LGBT Equality
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, and its Coming Out Project, in partnership with PFLAG National (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the original family and ally organization, and its Straight for Equality project, today released a comprehensive update of Coming Out as a Straight Supporter.
The memory of Matthew Shepard revisited on the Montreal stage in ‘The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later’
In October 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and left for dead, bound to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard eventually succumbed to the injuries inflicted upon him in an act of homophobic violence.
Jon Stewart Shreds Jack Welch’s Unemployment Conspiracy Theories
Ever since the new unemployment numbers were released shortly after President Obama and apprentice President candidate Mitt Romney’s first debate, conservatives have been crying foul.
Sally Field Receives HRC’s Ally For Equality Award
Sally Field delivered an impassioned speech on behalf of her openly gay son when accepting the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Ally for Equality Award in Washington D.C. this weekend.