The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United State’s of America’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, today endorsed marriage equality at an meeting on Saturday, 19 May 2012. The organization had originally been founded in 1909 to improve the lives of the country’s African ( Read more... )

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Last year, the Space Needle flew a gay pride flag. I thought it was pretty awesome to see a gay pride flag atop a very visible part of the city. Gave me goosebumps and all that jazz.

Just recently, the Space Needle announced it would not fly it this year. Gay rights groups were upset and a petition was circulated.

Now the Space Needle reversed ( Read more... )

Ty is my husband. He got an anonymous comment on his sports blog last night, and I think his response is perfect. I thought it might make others smile as well ( Read more... )

I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the regular news outlets, but here is a press release from Call to Action (a liberal Catholic group)

"Four longstanding Catholic organizations announced today that they have formed Equally Blessed, a coalition of faithful Catholics who support full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) ( Read more... )

This showed up on my Facebook feed and thought I'd pass it on. For those who don't know, it's KevJumba, a YouTube personality (and Amazing Race contestant) popular in the twentysomething Asian-American community.

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PS: I can haz humor tag?

I'm involved in an organization called Triangle Speakers. TS sends panels to middle schools, high schools, college classes and student group meetings, religious organizations, health organizations, etc. The panelists are all volunteers, and each panel has someone who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and an ally. Each person shares a 3- ( Read more... )

He is not the first or only in the Catholic church to say that the issue has nothing to do with being gay, but he is one of the more recent who has been picked up by the media, even if it is only NPR.

Moderator: "You didn't like it when, um I guess over the past week or ten days Church officials have characterized homosexuality as being at the root ( Read more... )

( NYC TRI-STATE AREA PEOPLE: Have a lot of fun this Sunday at the area's coolest Saint Patrick's Parade and Irish Fair while helping out with a worthy cause. )

For those of you unfamiliar with the New Ways Ministry, it is a Catholic group that has been advocating for LGBT Catholics for 30 years. Here is a quote from its site.
"[New Ways Ministry is] a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics
     and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.

Through ( Read more... )