Tag Archives: LGBT rights

Dan Savage excerpts the complaint against the repulsive Sonoma County hospital administrators who committed that horrible injustice to gay seniors Harold Scull and Clay Greene. Catch the last line. Above is a screencap I’ve done of the litany of charges. On or about June 28 and continuing through August 2008, Defendants ACV, DILLINGHAM, COUNTY, LIEDHOLM, STAGG-HOURIGAN, BREWSTER, and others and …

JMG reader and prolific YouTube activist Sean Chapin covers the case of Clay and Harold, the Sonoma County, California seniors whose decades-long relationship was ignored by hospital administrators. The horrible result of that injustice was covered on this blog on Friday and over the weekend the story got much wider notice across the progressive blogosphere.

Queers United alerts us to a poll on CNN’s homepage asking readers whether they agreed with Obama’s hospital visitation order. This comes only ten days after CNN hosted notoriously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who told viewers that gays could be “fixed”, something for which the network later offered a halfhearted apology. At least the vast majority of those responding …

Mike “Children Are Not Puppies” Huckabee must be very unhappy with his home state today. Act 1, passed by voters in 2008, unconstitutionally burdens non-marital relationships and acts of sexual intimacy between adults by forcing them to choose between becoming a parent and having any meaningful type of intimate relationship outside of marriage, Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled in a …

SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile will host a national LGBT leadership town hall in Washington DC on Thursday, April 22nd. The show will aired live nationally. The Panel: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey; Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese;National Center for Transgender Equality executive director Mara Keisling; Servicemembers Legal Defense Network executive director Aubrey Sarvis; …

The long overdue vote on ENDA does appear to be coming, but support is lacking in the Senate where 16 Democrats have not signed on as co-sponsors. DC Agenda reports: As of this week, there were 45 Senate co-sponsors of ENDA, along with chief sponsor Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), bringing the total committed votes to 46. Of the 46, 42 …

President Obama’s hospital visitation rights order late yesterday was heavily covered by the networks. Last night Anderson Cooper hosted Janice Langbern, whose story about being blocked from seeing her partner in a Miami hospital made national news. Obama called Langbern yesterday shortly before his order became public and apologized for the manner is which she and her late partner had …

President Obama tonight ordered the Department of Health & Human Services to prohibit hospitals from discriminating against LGBT couples when it comes to visitations rights. Administration officials and gay activists, who have been quietly working together on the issue, said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, a move that covers the vast majority …

Italy’s highest court has issued its ruling and the news isn’t good. The Constitutional Court judged the requests related to gay unions “not admissible” and “unfounded,” according to an e- mailed statement today. Courts in the northern cities of Trento and Venice had asked the court in Rome to rule on the matter. The motivation for the decision will be …

Mike Huckabee says that his words were “grossly distorted” when he was recently quoted comparing gay marriage to incest, drug abuse, and polygamy. The young college student hopefully will find a career other than journalism. I would ask that he release the unedited tape of our conversation. I believe that what people do as individuals in their private lives is …

Italy’s Constitutional Court is expected to rule this week on an appeal from two gay couples who were denied the right to marry. The decision may come as soon as tomorrow. The Vatican has pressured politicians to keep the issue from coming to a vote, but a positive ruling from the nation’s highest court could side-step legislative approval. RELATED: Portugal’s …

JMG reader and Afghanistan veteran R.D. tells his story today on the blog of conservative columnist David Frum. “I had a very bad session with my workout partner tonight. He is the person I am closest to in Afghanistan yet even he knows very little about my life. He asked if I was married and I lied, telling him I …

In an interview with Karen Ocamb, yesterday Rep. Barney Frank dismissed activism devices like marches and petitions, saying that if the LGBT community wants progress on DADT and ENDA, they need to lobby like the NRA – by calling their representatives personally and often. “I’ve been begging people for years to lobby their senators. And I have very little sympathy …

Yesterday the Missoula, Montana city council voted 10-2 to approve of adding LGBT people to the city’s employment and housing discrimination laws. “Most of us can’t remember civil rights in action,” said Councilwoman Stacy Rye, an ordinance sponsor. “This is it for us. This is our lifetimes.” In front of citizens who sat through a nearly seven-hour meeting, the council …

Tonight the city council of Missoula, Montana will consider an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance that has brought out the typical “men in ladies rooms” screams by God’s Gentle People™, who last week marched with signs prompted by the NotMyBathroom.com website. NOTMYBATHROOM.COM is an action to defeat the Missoula anti-discrimination ordinance or more accurately called THE PEEPING TOM PROTECTION ORDINANCE. A review …

The controversial attempt to place a repeal of Proposition 8 on the 2010 California ballot has failed to gather the necessary signatures by the deadline. The repeal attempt had been disavowed by most major LGBT and progressive groups as impossible to achieve before 2012 at the earliest. “Our signature collection effort may have fallen short, but we stand tall as …

In a story about the widening oppression of LGBT people across Africa, ABC News reports that in 2009, a gay man’s body was exhumed from its grave and desecrated by a mob who videotaped the scene and sold the clip at public markets. Madieye Diallo’s body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended …

Hundreds of activists and politicians rallied in West Hollywood this weekend calling for equality in Social Security benefits. Speakers included Sen. Barbara Boxer and NGLTF head Rea Carey. State and local officials joined hundreds of people outside the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood on Sunday morning to kick off a national grass-roots campaign demanding equal Social Security …

JMG reader Sean Chapin puts the classic satire to video.

“I think there’s been a real level of being disingenuous on the part of the gay and lesbian community with their goal of civil unions. You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal. That would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead …