Tag: USA
HRC Statement on Presbyterian Church (USA) Allowing LGBT Clergy to Serve the Church
Yesterday the decision of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to remove all barriers to the ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as ministers and lay leaders, which was voted on and passed in May, goes into effect.
Vail Gay Ski Week Selects The GLBT Community Center of Colorado As Beneficiary
The organizers of Vail Gay Ski Week announced that the Denver-based GLBT Community Center of Colorado (“The Center”) has been selected as the principal nonprofit beneficiary for the 2010 event scheduled for January 27 – 31, 2010.
Obama Administration Endorses UN Declaration Decriminalising Homosexuality
The US has endorsed a UN declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality.
44th president of the United States
Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, before a massive crowd reveling in a moment of profound racial significance, and called on Americans to confront together an economic crisis that he said was caused by “our collective failure to make hard choices.”