Among the most-protested books on the shelves of libraries and schools in the United States this year is an illustrated retelling of a true story about Same-Sex Parenting. And Tango Makes Three tells of the time when two male penguins at the New York Zoo partnered together to hatch an egg and give a young […]
An exhibit of Hollywood’s gay history at the Hollywood Museum has been extended from its original run in celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) month in June. It will now be open until September to accommodate the demand from the public to visit and enjoy the spectacle of the 1,000-plus objects commemorating the gay […]
Many people are following developing trends of freedom to marry in the U.S. for reasons that go beyond dreams of a beautiful wedding ceremony. As the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community receives the right to create legal family units built upon matrimony, the opportunity to be a full family with parental rights and […]
Studies show increased religious support for same sex marriage among a variety of religious groups in the recent decade. Some 42 percent of Muslims support freedom to marry, but only 28 percent of Mormons and evangelical Christians favor same-sex marriage rights. About 84 percent of Buddhists, 77 percent of American Jews, and more than 68 […]
Among states considering “religious protection” laws, Indiana stepped up into the line of fire, and drew heavy fire. Utah seems to have worked around many of the challenges faced by Indiana, Arkansas, and others by also passing explicit protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals alongside the “religious protection” law that the Church […]
After U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced in July that the organization intended to recognize same-sex marriage, Russia indicated that it would oppose the change. Russia led a coalition of United Nations member countries who opposed a change in policy by the organization to recognize and extend staff benefits to same-sex marriages. The government of […]
A former president of a notorious religious college apologizes for calling for gays to be stoned to death many years ago. In 2015, a California lawyer creates a ballot initiative he calls the “Sodomite Suppression Act” and proposes a bullet in the head for gays. Hate speech may not change much from decade to decade, […]
Thousands of parishioners at City Church in San Francisco can now open their hearts to their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community members with full fellowship in the evangelical church. While it has always been open to the LGBTQ community, the church’s official policy in the past required celibacy of gay members to […]
A lawyer whose firm has filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of ending marriage discrimination notes that marriage equality is not a threat to any religious liberties. The courts are addressing civil marriage for same-sex couples, and it will have no impact on how religions prepare sermons, […]
As acceptance and openness develops in society, some corporations understand the principle of respect and dignity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals, even if their customers are not always as tolerant. Transgender issues are in the news more recently, as individuals who had lived in silence find the courage to speak out. Recent studies […]
