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Verizon shareholders have voted to reject a proposed amendment to the company’s employment policies which would have added gender identity protections. Preliminary results showed that the resolution, which was opposed by the company’s board of directors, won 17 percent of shareholder approval. It takes 3 percent for a proposal to come back, which it achieved. According to Alberto Canal, of …

From Kansas, a really sweet story about a gay homecoming king: There’s no way I’m homecoming king. No way, he thought. Sarah helped him walk to the middle of the stage, where Laura Wetzel, the queen, crowned him and gave him a big hug. “That’s awesome, Matthew!” she said. Matthew’s cheeks were red, and his face hurt from smiling so …

From The Pill Kills.com: June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today. On that day in 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Griswold v. Connecticut case, it set a legal precedent for …

The British embassy in Belgrade will issue a pamphlet of “advice” to gay fans heading to the Eurovision Song Contest in Serbia this month, after fears were raised that local fascists plan to attack homosexual attendees. The British Embassy in Belgrade is funding the production of an information leaflet for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people planning to visit the …

The defense lawyer of Lawrence King’s murderer is blaming the school for playing a role in the crime because they did not stop King from coming to school in feminine attire and did not intervene when King flirted with Brandon McInerney. As 14-year-old Brandon McInerney prepares to be arraigned today in the slaying of 15-year-old Lawrence “Larry” King at E.O. …

NASA provides a view of Myanmar (Burma) before and after the cyclone. Terrifying. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

More Videos Here’s Stamp Your Feet, the new single from Donna Summer’s Crayons, due out May 20th. Embedding is disabled on the YouTube version of the clip, so let me know if this player gives you any problem.

Last week in Atlanta, Human Rights Campaign executive director Joe Solmonese privately apologized to a group of transgender activists for “misspeaking” at a conference last year when he promised that his organization would not support a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that did not include gender identity protections. Solmonese met for more than two hours with Atlanta transgender rights …

And in the background are the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges.

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