Microsoft Asked to Return Award
As previously noted in this story, Microsoft recently withdrew its support for legislation that would have outlawed discrimination against gay and lesbian people in Washington state. Now, the Gay & Lesbian Center, which presented Microsoft with its Corporate Vision Award…
Connecticut Adopts Civil Unions
Connecticut has joined Vermont in offering its lgbt citizens the option to enter into Civil Unions. Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell signed Senate bill 963 into law on April 20, 2005. The law will go into effect October 1, 2005.…
Gay Rights Fail in Washington
The Washington state Senate rejected a bill to add sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination law on Thursday. House Bill 1515 would have banned discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, insurance and jobs by adding sexual orientation to a…
Queer Money
I'm filling in for Maria for a couple days, but I'll try not to mess up her system. I caught this the other day on PRWeb: A new documentary, “Selling Queer†chronicles the events of Gay Day 2004 in Orlando,…
On Lincoln’s Sexuality
Guardian Unlimited features a piece on a conference held yesterday which examined Lincoln's sexuality. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - It must have been the first conference in the history of Abraham Lincoln scholarship to call the Great Emancipator ``a terrifically sexual…
Gay Student Asks Scalia If He Sodomizes His Wife
NYP: April 14, 2005 -- WHEN Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (above) spoke Tuesday night at NYU's Vanderbilt Hall, "The room was packed with some 300 students and there were many protesters outside because of Scalia's vitriolic dissent last year…
Anti-gay Senator Hiding Behind Bushes at GLBT Rally
Some things are just too good to pass up. Picture from Paradise Is Where I Am. 04/08/05 Good story behind the next couple photos. I was walking into the capitol building to get an elevated view of the rally for…
Ontario Catholic Bishop Bans Catholic Paper For it’s View on Homosexuality
Pebroke, Ontario, Apr. 12 () - PEMBROKE, Ontario, April 11, 2005 () - Bishop Richard Smith of Pembroke, Ontario, the current President of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops, has banned the Catholic New Times newspaper from parishes in his…
Fire Closes Night Club in PA Known For Fund-raising
A New Hope area nightclub was damaged by a Monday afternoon fire that is expected to leave a void - temporarily, at least - for a tourist haven already reeling from the destructive effects of recent flooding. The Cartwheel on…
School Board Considers Prohibiting Plays Dealing With Sexual Themes, Particularly Homosexuality
The Loudoun County School Board is considering a new policy governing school plays, part of a continuing wave of reaction to the performance of a student-written piece featuring a gay protagonist at Stone Bridge High School in February. The play,…