By Lambda Legal Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that married same-sex couples should have the same parenting rights as different sex couples in a Lambda Legal case on behalf of Chris Strickland, a non-biological lesbian mother who was denied legal parentage for children she and her now ex-wife planned for and raised together. The […]
Read More →by Victoria Sackett for AARP More than 80 percent of the survey respondents said they would welcome signs or symbols that indicate a facility or service is LGBT-friendly. Many lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) older adults are worried that they won’t have the familial and social caregiving support they’ll need as they grow older. […]
Read More →by By Jake Naughton for New York Times When Mikael Owunna returned to his family’s home in Pittsburgh after finishing a Fulbright Fellowship in Taiwan, it was unsettling. He and his family were originally from Nigeria, where gay Africans like him were scorned and mistreated. While grappling with long suppressed anxiety and depression because of that […]
Read More →Today, November 20, is the 18th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia, or the hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming people, and acts to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the Transgender community. According to LGBT organizations and […]
Read More →by Vincent M. Mallozzi – The New York Times Pastor Twanna Gause stepped out of a limousine amid the whir of cameras outside the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church in East Orange, N.J. Dressed in an off-white wedding gown and veil that sparkled in the cascading sunshine, she carried a bouquet of white roses […]
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