Friday, November 6, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is proud to announce publication of LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity, written by Michele J. Eliason, PhD, Suzanne L Dibble, DNSc, RN, Jeanne DeJoseph, CNM, PhD, and Peggy Chinn, RN, PhD. The book is available online only at www.NursingCenter.com/lgbtq and addresses health care disparities among the gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Logo, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today that TripOutGayTravel.com, its comprehensive travel site dedicated to the LGBT traveler and MTV Networks' first stand-alone, trnd-alone, travel-focused site, announced the winners of its first ever "TripOut Gay Travel Awards." The awards honor the most stylish, exciting and hottest destinations and services that attract, pamper and market to the LGBT traveler. The awards and winners will be officially celebrated tonight at a reception coinciding with the Community Marketing, Inc. 10th International Conference on Gay and Lesbian Tourism in Boston, MA with select honorees in attendance to receive their award.
Although signs looked good on Election Night, it’s now official… news organizations have called the race over Referendum 71 (the proposed expansion of domestic partner protections) for the Approve side! Domestic partners in Washington State now have the state-level rights and responsibilities afforded to married couples, and all families are that much safer.  Congratulations to the Approve [...]
This post from HRC Family Project Director Ellen Kahn reflects on the new study showing similarities between same- and opposite-sex couples:  As a teenager, I never imagined my life would resemble that of my parents.  No, as a “baby dyke,” marriage was out of the question, and kids… well I certainly did not think gay people ever [...]
The following guest post: ”Ending Employment Discrimination in America: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics about America’s LGBT Families” comes from Bob Witeck, CEO, Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., Washington, D.C. “When you say…you [gay Americans] are not a group of people who need special protection. You do well economically. You are an elite. That is precisely the argument that has [...]
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is effectively rejecting what they call Chris Jericho's "insincere and worn" apology for using anti-gay and racist slurs at a recent film festival.
Members of several Utah gay and lesbian advocacy groups asked LDS Church leaders to open a dialogue with its gay members but...
Members of several Utah gay and lesbian advocacy groups asked LDS Church leaders to open the dialogue with its gay members...

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