Tag: LGBT rights
San Antonio City Council Approves LGBT-Inclusive Updates to Ordinances
San Antonio – the nation’s seventh-largest city – Last Thursday added sexual orientation and gender identity protections into ordinances governing city employment, contracting, housing and public accommodations.
India : Raid on gay party an act of moral policing, say activists
It’s like taking one step forward and two steps back.
Gay Rights Groups In New York Target Coca Cola
Gay rights groups have poured bottles of Coca Cola down the drain in a protest against the company’s sponsorship of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia at Times Square in New York.
Gov. Christie Signs Bill Protecting New Jersey’s Youth
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed into law AB 3371, a bill that will put an end to dangerous and disproved efforts designed to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender expression that have proven to inflict great emotional harm.
With Sochi Games Only Six Months Away, President Obama Condemns Russia’s Heinous Anti-LGBT Law
In an interview Tuesday with Jay Leno on NBC’s The Tonight Show, President Obama condemned a new Russian law that criminalizes even the most modest gestures of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Manchester to use St Petersburg link to ‘pressure Russia’
Manchester City Council will use its links with St Petersburg to pressure Russia to reconsider a law banning the promotion of “non-traditional values”.