5 THINGS TO KNOW
Month: September 2017
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Transgender weightlifter heading to the Commonwealth Games.
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has qualified to compete at next year’s Commonwealth Games for New Zealand after winning the women’s 90kg-plus division at a national meet.
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Roman Catholic Bishop supports ending bigotry against the LGBT community.
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy says the Roman Catholic Church must purge itself of “long-standing bigotry” against the LGBT community. In a strongly worded defense of a priest’s book about the church’s relationship with the gay community, McElroy writes in America Magazine that a “cancer of vilification” and “judgmentalism” are harming the church.
POLICIES
Michigan Civil Rights Commission refuses to extend protections to the LGBT community.
After more than two hours of impassioned testimony from more than 50 people, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission on Monday declined a request to reinterpret the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections for the LGBT community.
BUSINESS
Facebook rejects ad calling for volunteers for Folsom Street.
Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend’s Folsom Street Fair rejected by Facebook as violating their advertising policies.
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Poll shows diminished support for same-sex marriage in Australia.
FORMER Liberal Party leader Brendan Nelson has called on voters to look at the same-sex marriage debate through the eyes of LGBTI Australians while recalling the tragic death of his brother from AIDS.
HEROES
The Mennonite Church evolves with first LGBT pastor.
Albuquerque Mennonite Church will announce today that they have called Erica Lea to be their pastor — the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as a lead pastor in the Mennonite Church USA, a denomination that claims more than 70,000 adult members in the U.S.