For more than 40 years the Episcopal Church has stood in support of the rights of gay and lesbian people and in more recent years has expanded that to include transgender people. This support for LGBT rights isn’t a political stance but a theological one, based in the knowledge that people are beloved children of God and worthy of respect.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, joined by Gov. Cuomo and followed by another 150,000 marchers, led the way Saturday at the 257th edition of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The governor introduced a bit of politics to the annual day of Irish pride, noting that Varadkar was an openly gay man at an event where gay and lesbian groups were once angrily banned.
Comedian James Adomian thinks it would be nice if “Saturday Night Live” put a gay man on the show ― something they haven’t done in more than 30 years. “I’ve been out of the closet the whole time since I auditioned 13 years ago.” Adomian told The Daily Beast at SXSW. “You would think that they would have tried to put someone else on that was a gay man. It’s about time.”
On Wednesday, March 14 at about 9:20pm, City Councilwoman Marielle Franco, 38, one of Brazil’s most promising, charismatic and respected political figures who stood up for those living in the country’s increasingly violent favelas was shot dead in an apparent targeted political assassination. Her car was hit by drive-by shooters with nine bullets, and her driver, 39-year-old Anderson Pedro Gomes, was also killed.
The modern-day gay civil rights movement had its beginnings in the Stonewall riots of 1969. Police raided the popular gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969. Violence and protests erupted in the streets and lasted for six days.
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is on high alert after receiving two letters containing death threats and homophobic language Wednesday. Both letters had a “faith-based bent” to them, said David Heitstuman, center executive director, and were more specific in nature than past hate mail the center had received.
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