LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Point Foundation (Point), the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit, announces the opening of its 2010 application season starting December 11, 2009. Students who will be enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2010-11 school year are eligible to apply for the prestigious, multi-year scholarships. The application deadline for this year's scholarships is February 12, 2010.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Monday to advance the state's genderless marriage bill to the full Senate for consideration. Speaking before the Committee, Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP, claimed it is unconstitutional to deny homosexuals marriage because "like our race, sexuality isn't a preference. It's immutable and unchangeable."
Today, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and strong supporter of many LGBT legislative priorities, issued the following statement on the “Anti-Homosexuality†bill introduced in the Ugandan Parliament in October: “I am deeply saddened and troubled that such blatantly ignorant and hate-filled legislation would see the light of day [...]
Yesterday, Congress released a consolidated appropriations bill, including the funding measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and the District of Columbia, that includes positive developments on HIV/AIDS and comprehensive sex education. The HHS funding provision includes an increase of $36 million for HIV prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control [...]
Yesterday, Rev. Dennis Wiley, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church and co-chair of DC’s Clergy United for Marriage Equality appeared on Montel Williams’ Air America Radio show “Montel Across America.” Check out the audio on the show’s site, beginning at about the one hour mark. Rev. Wiv. Wiley (and his wife Rev. Christine Wiley) have been outspoken advocates [...]
LOS ANGELES - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected a lesbian as assistant bishop, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first.
Bruce Springsteen has come out in support of gay marriage in his home state of New Jersey, where a marriage equality bill will go to vote this week. The rocker released a statement via his official Web site Wednesday backing the legislation.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A bill offering gay and lesbian couples in New Jersey the same rights to marry as a man and woman was approved by a legislative committee last night and sent to the full Senate.
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