Finances at ‘turning point’ for LGBT groups, stabilizing; but donors fleeing
By: Chuck Colbert /TRT Reporter– Good news and some concerns about the LGBT equality movement emerge from a new study by a LGBT think tank….
February 2012
Civil and Human Rights Coalition to Honor Barney Frank and Janet Murguía
Hubert H. Humphrey Award is the Highest Honor of the Civil and Human Rights Movement– Washington, D.C. – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human…
MassEquality To Honor Icons of LGBT Equality At New Event
Inaugural Icon Awards Will Recognize Contributions to LGBT Equality by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, philanthropist Ron Ansin, community activist Gladys Vega, and Eastern Bank BOSTON, MA…
Marriage Equality in NJ: Positive Effects For 16,875 Couples Raising 6,650+ Children
LOS ANGELES, CA – As the New Jersey legislature votes on the legalization of marriage for same-sex couples, the Williams Institute, a leading research institute…
Creep of the Week: One Million Moms
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– Lest there be any confusion, last week’s Creep is not just a million random ladies with kids. One Million Moms…
Thinking Out Loud: Two Lesbians Abroad
What our guidebook didn’t tell us about being out of the closet in Egypt By: Abby Dees/Special for TRT– Nearly 3500 years ago, the female…
Santorum Brings Anti-Gay Message to Washington State as Marriage Equality Becomes Reality
Washington – Rick Santorum is bringing his increasingly vitriolic campaign to Washington State today, the same day Governor Christine Gregoire is signing into law historic marriage…
Washington governor signs law; NJ Senate passes bill
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– In a sometimes emotional ceremony Monday morning (February 13), Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed the freshly passed marriage equality bill,…
President Obama’s 2013 Budget shows commitment to ending HIV/AIDS
BOSTON, MA—Today, President Obama released his Fiscal 2013 budget, which contains recommendations for Ryan White CARE Act funding and support for the Administration’s historic National…
MassEquality Statement on Mitt Romney’s Remarks about Marriage
BOSTON, February 13, 2012—During Friday’s Conservative Political Action Conference, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney spoke about the history of marriage rights in Massachusetts. MassEquality Executive…
Whitney Houston Dead At 48: Death Details
UPDATE– Recent reports from the Huffington Post about the County Coroner’s office “confirmed that some prescription medications were found in the hotel room where Whitney…
Creep of the Week: Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee) On Forbidding Sex Ed
By: D’Anne Witkowski/Special for TRT– There are a lot of things wrong with State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee). Mainly mouth things and brain things, as…
Positive effects of extending marriage to Same-Sex couples in Maryland
It will help 12,500 Couples Raising Over 5,000 Children– LOS ANGELES, CA –– As the Maryland legislature approaches a vote on the legalization of marriage…
Washington State House Approves Legislation Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
OLYMPIA – Washington United for Marriage, a broad statewide coalition of organizations, congregations, unions and business associations that will work to obtain civil marriage for…
Op-Ed: CNN Suspends Roland Martin: Says His Words Are Intolerable
By: Christian Langstaff/Special Op-Ed– After several hate-filled tweets, by CNN’s Martin, the contributor has been suspended, The Advocate reported. Allegedly, Martin’s anti-gay comments were tweeted while…
Iowa Erases Mother from Stillborn Baby’s Death Certificate: LL Files Suit
“To white out a mother’s name from her stillborn baby’s death certificate is cruel to a family that is already devastated.” [Press Release] Des Moines,…
Prop 8 ruled as unconstitutional
By Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– Calling Proposition 8 “remarkably similar” to Colorado’s anti-gay Amendment 2 in 1992, a divided federal appeals court panel in San…
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: HBGC releases video
BOSTON — In recognition of National Black HIV Awareness Day (February 7), a day established in 1999 by grassroots service organizations to promote HIV prevention…
The Rainbow Times: Official 2012 Boston Pride Media Partner & Pride Guide Producer
BOSTON, MA – The Rainbow Times LGBTQ newspaper printed out of Northampton, Massachusetts but serving all of New England has won the Official Bid and…
Senator Brown Co-Sponsors GLBTQ-Inclusive Bill
By: GMDVP– On Thursday, February 2nd, the US Senate Judiciary Committee approved GLBTQ-inclusive legislation on domestic violence, known as Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This is…
Federal Officials Convene to Address Transexual Violence & Health Care in Puerto Rico
Over the weekend of January 28 & 29, more than two dozen federal officials met with representatives from the Puerto Rican group, Transexuales y Transgéneros…
CDC Survey Shatters Gender Myths: Reports 1 in 4 Men are Victims of Domestic Violence
BOSTON – An exhaustive government survey of sexual assault and domestic violence recently released by the Center of Disease Control’s (CDC) affirmed that 1 in 4 men…
Madonna Expresses Herself
By: Chris Azzopardi/TRT Special– Gay icon relates herself to ‘strong women’ in new film, talks being an outsider and the latest era of her career….