In the early days of 2005, flush with $350,000 of Health Canada and provincial funding, community activist Steven RodRozen was hired to do something about the number of gay men who smoke. A new study at the time showed that while only 19 percent of British Columbians smoked cigarettes, the number jumped to 29 percent among LGBT people.
Saying all marriages are created equal, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the wife of a gay woman who has given birth is entitled to the same parental rights as any husband would be.
City First Lady Chirlane McCray wants New Yorkers to know there’s always a way “out.” McCray, who has written of being a lesbian when she fell for future Mayor Bill de Blasio, unveiled a citywide LGBTQ support initiative Tuesday and recalled her own challenges.
Brazilian activists and celebrities have condemned a court ruling that approves a “cure” for gay people. Waldemar de Carvalho, a federal judge in the capital Brasilia, backed a psychologist who had her licence revoked for offering so-called “conversion therapy”.
The United States recently recognized National Suicide Prevention Week, at which time experts noted that recent and continuing events—including those both directly and indirectly affecting the LGBT community—can be taxing to one’s mental health.
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.
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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