All Entries Tagged With: "lgbt rights"
Thinking Out Loud: Other People’s Politics & We Just Have To Deal With It
By: Abby Dees*/Special to TRT– Having friends who don’t share your political views is very inconvenient. It requires you to think in terms of individuals, rather than lump everyone you disagree with into a tidy group that is (pick one:) stupid, greedy, evil, brainwashed or out to get you. It means you have to get [...]
The Religious Freedom Red Herring & DOMA
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT– By the time you read this, you’ll probably know if the Supreme Court has decided to hear one of the three marriage equality cases knocking at its venerable doors. I’m willing to bet a hundred bucks that the Court will agree to hear one of those appeals, and in 2013 [...]
Why 2012 Should Take Its Place Next to 1969 in LGBT History
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT– Fights and fabulousness make history; good news and policy shifts rarely do. As an example, I don’t think I’ve seen more than two pictures from the 1969 Stonewall riots, but my mind is filled with images of those amazing ‘60s-era drag queens using handbags like weapons and kicking out the [...]
Four Historic Wins for Marriage Equality
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– PORTLAND — Maine made history on election night as voters approved a ballot measure granting gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Unofficial results, with 92 percent of the vote tallied, showed Question 1 passing by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin. The measure asked voters, “Do you wish [...]
New Report: Knights of Columbus Donate Millions to Fight Marriage Equality
By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter– Sometimes they dress up like the Three Musketeers, donning fancy, feathery hats, and show up for a grand parade. More often they dress like regular guys, manning pancake breakfasts and parish fish fries. They are the nearly 2 million members of Knights of Columbus, an all-male Roman Catholic fraternal and service [...]
More Non-bigoted Religious Spokespeople Into the Discussion of LGBT Rights
By: Paul P. Jesep*/TRT Columnist– GLAAD released a study that identifies an enormous religious opportunity to further LGBT rights. GLAAD joined with the University of Missouri Center on Religion and the Professions to analyze 316 LGBT news stories. The findings showed that “three out of four religious messages came from people whose religions have formal [...]
“We Need Pastors, Not Politicians: Your Election Year Antics are Hurting the Church!”
WASHINGTON – Catholics for Equality, the country’s largest national political organization of pro-LGBT equality Catholics, joined hands yesterday with several fair-minded and faithful Catholic social justice groups in organizing a peaceful protest outside the Archdiocese of Washington, DC’s rally promoting the U.S. bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” election year political campaign. The Catholic groups came together [...]
Executive Order Rejection: Old strategy or New campaign?
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service– The Obama administration revealed a political calculation last week: Now is not a good time to sign an executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people who work for federal contractors. There has been more than the usual expression of “disappointment” from various quarters, but not much more. The general tenor [...]
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
By: D’Anne Witkowski*/Special for TRT– Hey girlfriend, what are you wearing to the race war? Some sexy camouflage chaps, perhaps? A rainbow stripped Kevlar vest? Gays vs. Blacks Wait, haven’t you heard? The National Organization for Marriage is sponsoring some big gay people vs. black people thing. I hear it’s going to be all the [...]
Thinking Out Loud: In a Family Way, Why reproductive rights should matter to the LGBT community
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT– If you’re like me, you don’t think a whole lot about birth control. You probably don’t have much heterosexual sex, though I shouldn’t assume, and you likely believed that we’d come to a grudging truce around a woman’s right to control her reproductive life. In the 80s and 90s, of [...]
Thinking Out Loud: Why Waiting for LGBT Equality is a Waste of Time
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT While my home state of California is still wrestling with whether allowing gay marriage will send us floating into the Pacific, other states have seen the light and are moving into the 21st century. If voter initiatives don’t ruin it, Maryland and Washington are set to be the seventh and [...]
Student government vote bars Chick-fil-A eatery at local Mass. university
By: Chuck Colbert /TRT Reporter– In response to mounting opposition, the undergraduate Student Government Association (SGA) at Northeastern University (NU) voted down a proposal to bring Chick-fil-A, a Georgia-based fast-food chain with an anti-LGBT track record to campus. For more than two weeks, critics, including students, faculty, staff, and alumni, denounced Chick-fil-A, citing the company’s [...]
