Tuesday, August 4, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

SAFETY ISSUES: American Idol runner-up, Adam Lambert, is no longer able to meet with his fans after the American Idol concert tour due to threats from an alledged stalker. Will our Glambert be safe?
THE GOVERNATOR RETURNS?: Tom Arnold is telling the press a James Cameron film project will soon reunite him with former costar Arnold Schwarzenegger 'the day after [he] stops being governor of California.'
A NIGHT IN DUSTIN: Academy Award-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black took some time before taking any action against the online company that leaked the compromising photos of him engaged in sex acts with his ex-boyfriend Jeff Delancey. But enough is enough, it's lawsuit time...
We got word earlier today that HRC received the most votes with 38% on Kenneth Cole’s Facebook charity contest.  They asked users to vote for an organization to receive a $10,000 donation for their good work.  Congratulations also to charity: water for their second place finish getting them $5,000.  Thanks to everyone who voted!
Opponents of non-discrimination protections for transgender people are quick to raise the red herring of sexual predators hanging out in the restroom â€" as if making sure transgender people can safely use a restroom somehow negates all the other laws that keep people safe. When the City of Gainesville, Florida passed an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based [...]
Ed. Note: This is the next in a series of posts from Alison Delpercio, HRC’s Workplace & Family Project Coordinator, who is spending the week in Provincetown, Massachusetts volunteering at Family Week. At HRC we often talk about “changing hearts and minds.” Especially with our work in the Foundation as we support our public policy goals by helping Americans get [...]
Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles nominated an openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest as bishops Sunday, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on gays in the...
Episcopal Church leaders in Los Angeles today nominated an openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest as bishops, becoming one of the first dioceses in the national church to test a controversial new policy that lifted a de facto ban on gays and lesbians in the ordained hierarchy.
Leaders of the US Episcopal Church in America have risked deepening tensions in the Anglican Communion after nominating homosexual and lesbian priests as bishops.

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