Tag Archives: LGBT rights

In a rambling book-signing speech, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura spoke at length about his support for LGBT rights. Ventura’s comments were apparently spurred by an airport incident with a male TSA agent, leading the former pro wrestler to declare, “I’m not homophobic at all…but when I pass through and they touch me, I want a woman doing it.”

GOP Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today signed the bill overturning Nashville’s non-discrimination ordinance. The bill also effectively outlaws all local LGBT rights laws statewide as it bans any discrimination protections not already offered by the state. It was strongly opposed by several major corporations following a letter-writing campaign launched by Americablog Gay. UPDATE: The Human Rights Campaign reacts. In an …

Following the launch of a protest campaign by AmericaBlog Gay, several major corporations have denounced Tennessee’s pending bill which would ban all local LGBT rights laws. The bill was backed by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, where the companies below sit on its board of directors. Via HRC: Alcoa:“Alcoa provides equal employment opportunity without discrimination and supports state and local …

As I reported yesterday, late Saturday night the Minnesota House voted 70-62 to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the 2012 ballot. Here’s a recap of the story from a local CBS affiliate.

“It’s almost all bad news this week.”

Watch every second of this. It will both break your heart and thrill you.

“We’re losing on [gay marriage], especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don’t know if that’s going to change with a little more age, demographers would say probably not. We’ve probably lost that. I don’t want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are …

New York’s same-sex marriage movement leads City Hall News‘ list of this week’s “losers.” New Yorkers United for Marriage — The coalition working so hard to pass a gay marriage bill has spent major money trying to flip Republican Senate votes. But with weeks left to go in the session, all their celebrity endorsements will pale against the reality that …

Via press release from Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, who are very unhappy with the religious exemption in Rhode Island’s civil unions bill: Everyone agrees that religious denominations should not be required to join any two people in any legal relationship – whether marriage or a civil union – that is contrary to their religious teachings. However, the religious …

AmericaBlog Gay reports on the backers of yesterday’s ban on LGBT rights in Tennessee. The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce – chaired by Nissan, and whose other board members include such companies as FedEx, AT&T, Comcast, DuPont, Pfizer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caterpillar, KPMG, Whirlpool, Embraer, Alcoa, and United HealthCare – actively lobbied for a religious right bill in the Tennessee …

The Rhode Island House has overwhelmingly approved civil unions by a vote of 62-11 after a last-ditch attempt to convert the bill to full marriage equality failed. The bill now goes to the state Senate, where it is predicted to pass easily. Gov. Lincoln Chafee has promised to sign it.

At yesterday’s giant anti-gay rally in Raleigh, local police told a small group of counter-protesters that their “Equal Rites For All” sign would not be allowed. The cops backed off after the intervention of a local news reporter. Stick with the clip until the end and listen to the speaker at the podium rail against diseased homosexuals and warn the …

Today a Minnesota House panel narrowly voted 13-12 to send a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to the full chamber. The vote was hotly denounced by Democrats. “The founding fathers warned against tyranny of majority,” said Rep. Kathy Brynaert, DFL-Mankato. “Don’t do this.” Rep. Kate Knuth, DFL-New Brighton, said. “Why take away rights in our constitution? Why tear the people …

The Rhode Island state Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday voted 9-3 to send a civil unions bill to the full chamber. The civil union bill has attracted little public support from groups and lawmakers on both sides of the marriage debate. Gay marriage supporters say civil unions treat gay couples as second-class citizens. Opponents say civil unions are marriage by another …

Beautiful. By filmmaker Boo Junfeng.

One month after the city of Moscow granted permission for the city’s first authorized gay pride event in years, that ruling has been revoked. The reasons given by the deputy mayor of Moscow, Ludmila Shvetsova, is because of “the impossibility to provide security” – and a high number of letters of protests received by the City Hall against this event. …

“If as human beings created in the image of God, we fail to appreciate the difference between males and females and start marrying man-to-man and woman-to-woman, are we not worse than dogs that appreciate nature’s arrangement? Have you ever seen a he-goat getting attached to another he-goat? Or a male dog to another male dog? Think about these things.” – …

And the crowd goes wild!(Video by Andres Duque at Blabbeando)