A federal appeals court in Chicago has found that the U.S. Fair Housing Act places obligations on landlords to protect LGBT tenants from harassment by other tenants. Monday night’s ruling by the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals sides with 70-year-old Marsha Wetzel. She accused a suburban Chicago senior living center of doing…
Yesterday, the story of Jamel Myles, a 9-year-old who died by suicide after he came out to his fourth-grade class, was reported by many media outlets. On story after story, comments appeared questioning whether a 9-year-old could even identify as gay at all.
A summer of Pride is well and truly underway in the UK. More and more cities are organising and embracing Pride events, with all the rainbow flags, glitter and defiant political messages that entails, writes Christine Jackson-Taylor. But more than 50 years after homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK, LGBT people still do not feel that they can totally be themselves.
Rufus Gifford, the gay man who became a television celebrity while serving as President Obama’s ambassador to Denmark, decided when Obama’s successor was elected that it was time to come home and fight. “Like so many people, I was blindsided” by the election of Donald Trump, Gifford recalled in a recent phone interview with…
Stonewall Park was a mid-1980s dream that never quite came to fruition. FRED SCHOONMAKER WAS THE VISIONARY; Alfred Parkinson, whom he called his husband, his most devoted disciple. The two men lived in Nevada in the mid-1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when legally sanctioned homophobia…
A 74-year-old woman cried tears of joy when a Utah state judge took the rare step of declaring her and her longtime lesbian partner legally married just months after her wife died. Judge Patrick Corum last week declared Bonnie Foerster legally married to Beverly Grossaint, who died in May in Salt Lake City at age 82, the Salt Lake Tribune reported…
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