Danica Roem’s election to the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday was a big win, as she will become the first openly transgender woman to take state office. But Tuesday’s election was a far bigger win for transgender candidates than most tallies have accounted for. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
For years — starting with the election of Ron Oden, an openly gay man, in 1995 and then the passage of a domestic partnership ordinance — LGBT voters and their allies had been making slow but steady progress at Palm Springs City Hall. Then in 2008, after the passage of a statewide initiative to ban same-sex marriage, the community erupted in anger. Hundreds of frustrated residents took to the streets. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
A transgender woman has won a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. Danica Roem defeated an incumbent who had sponsored a bill earlier this year that would have restricted which bathroom transgender people could use. It’s the first time someone who’s said they were transgender has been elected to a state legislature. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
In a world where marriage between individuals of the same sex is increasingly recognised in law, opponents desperately cling to the belief that children raised by gay couples fare worse when deprived of a parent of either gender. The bulk of research just doesn’t back this up. And there is a lot of research out there. Yet the debate persists, so this latest study digs a little deeper into the problem in an effort to clear up persisting arguments. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
Jenny Durkan has been elected mayor of Seattle, making her the city’s first out lesbian mayor and its first woman mayor since the 1920s. Durkan won 61 percent of the vote, more than 21 percentage points ahead of her opponent, Cary Moon, The Seattle Times reports. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
LGBT, the most commonly used acronym for the gay and trans community, stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – but you already know that. You probably also already know that the acronym has had rather a lot of letters added to it over the years, and that it now reads: LGBTKSWQPEXMGHDABJDKKLDLFSJFSJDNFJNDFJFBJFNFMLDKEEEYRHRHRFKF. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
The psychologist at the LGBT youth shelter waited for me in a small side street in the city center of Tirana, Albania’s capital. “No one knows our exact address, we want to avoid arson and havoc,” she told me. She knocked on a discrete door. Once inside, she showed me the two bedrooms with bunk beds and invited me to the living room to meet with some of the residents at the STREHA shelter. Read the full article HERE. #lgbt #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #homophobia #equality
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