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…
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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….
Ashfield Community Theater to perform “The Vagina Monologues”
On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Ashfield Community Theater will present a benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s play, “The Vagina Monologues” (directed by Melissa Penley). Performances…
The OutField: Jim Provenzano explores sports, sex and paraplegia
By: Dan Woog*/Special for TRT– It may not be the traditional format for a winning novel: cross-country running. Lacrosse. Wheelchair basketball. Gay romance. But Jim…
Providence erotic shop gets Adult Video News nomination
By: Casey Rocheteau/TRT Reporter– When politicians talk about the importance of small-business owners, rarely, if ever, does it evoke the thought of adult-shop owners. The differences…
LGBT Seniors Going Back into the Closet
Alarming Challenges of LGBT Senior Population is Focus of New Awareness Campaign HARTFORD, Connecticut—Delivering Tuesday night’s State of the Union message and referring to the…
Deep Inside Hollywood: Dee Rees, Amanda Seyfried, Glenn Close, & James Franco
By: Romeo San Vicente*/Special for TRT– Linda Lovelace gets her men It takes a village to tell the story of ’70s porn sensation Linda “Lovelace”…
Killer Food!–Second in a Series concerning Food & Politics and the 2012 Elections
To Cook is To Love: A Foodies Journal By: John Verlinden/TRT Cuisine Expert– Our food supply isn’t always as safe as we’d like. Each year…
The transgender valentine. Is it time yet?
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/TRT Columnist– Welcome to February, the second month of 2012. Here in New England, ol’ man winter is still around, but most…
Congratulations to MetLife, our newest Corporate Partner
By: Jenn Tracz Grace*/CABO’s Executive Director– 2012 is off to a wonderful beginning for the Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO), the statewide affiliate of…
Stretching those tired gender boxes and defining “men” and “women”
By: Tynan Power/TRT Columnist* Before I transitioned, I struggled mightily with what it “meant” to change genders. Although I had felt that I was male…
Thinking Out Loud: Joel Osteen and feel-good homophobia
By: Abby Dees*/Special for TRT When the Michelle Bachmanns or Glenn Becks of the world do their public rants about rampant homosexual perversion and the…
Ask Lambda Legal – Public Accommodation & Discrimination Against LGBT community members
By: Natalie Chin/Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal– Q: The other week, a few friends and I were at a restaurant. We attempted to get the…
Pregúntale a Lambda Legal – Acomodaciones Públicas
Por: Natalie Chin, Abogada, Lambda Legal– P: Hace poco, unos amigos y yo fuimos a un restaurante. Tratamos de llamar al mesero, pero era obvio que no…