Analysis: The global impact of Obama’s support for gay marriage
The president’s decision represents a “next generation” for whom LGBT equality is a given. May 10, 2012–As an LGBT rights advocate, I have experienced so many proud moments…
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Eight Months in Solitary
Repost from The Advocate by Andrew Harmon A few days after Christmas last year, Ruby Corado, a longtime transgender activist in Washington, D.C., received a telephone call while…
Read moreThe Republican Party’s anti-gay bias
Op-Ed By Michael Guest, for the Washington Post (Print edition will be published on Sunday, May 6) Michael Guest, the first openly gay ambassador confirmed by the Senate, was…
Read moreLGBT Human Rights Abuse Under the New “Homosexual Propaganda” Law Continues in St. Petersburg
Repost from Coming Out St. Petersburg May 1, 2012–17 LGBT activists of St. Petersburg were arrested for carrying rainbow flags as part of the May 1st civil rights and freedom…
Read moreU.S. Embassy and Blue Diamond Society Partner to Make Disaster Risk Reduction LGBTI-Inclusive
April 27, 2012– The U.S. Embassy partnered with the Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) rights organization at a workshop this morning to discuss…
Read moreVideo: President Obama on “Never Again” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Full transcript of the speech is available at here.
Read moreObama includes gays in Holocaust speech
Repost from The Washington Blade President Obama explicitly addressed the plight gay men faced during the Holocaust in a speech Monday urging that the atrocities of the genocide…
Read moreNew Report on LGBTI Refugees from ORAM
Rainbow Bridges, ORAM’s newest publication, shares the rare experience gained by ORAM during its yearlong pilot program assisting resettled LGBTI refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area. The…
Read moreUgandan LGBTI activist to seek support from Nobel laureates
Repost from The Windy City Times On April 22-25, Nobel Peace Prize laureates will gather in Chicago for the Nobel Summit, and Ugandan LGBTI activist Frank Mugisha will…
Read morePride March Support Statement by Ambassador John F. Tefft
March 2012- As Ambassador of the United States of America in Kyiv, I would like to express my support and the support of my country to all those who…
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