Human Rights

Peru police break up peaceful gay kiss protest with water cannons

Peru police break up peaceful gay kiss protest with water cannons https://t.co/EtbPKRQ9Yf #LGBTI pic.twitter.com/drNy4Kqbhg — Gay Star News (@gaystarnews) February 15, 2016 A suspiciously phallic response by police.

Catholic Church staying out of fight to ban gay conversion therapy in New York state

#Catholic Church staying out of fight to ban #gay conversion therapy in #NewYork State https://t.co/i2SAfAQrLC #LGBT pic.twitter.com/sAfXXZSW4h — Gay Star News (@gaystarnews) February 12, 2016

Catholic Bishops Not Obliged to Report Clerical Child Abuse, Vatican Says

Outrageous. "Catholic Bishops Not Obliged to Report Clerical Child Abuse, Vatican Says" https://t.co/z620L5txcW @Pontifex Where is reform? — Richard Rosendall (@RickRosendall) February 12, 2016

Results, not revolution

My latest Blade column takes a historical view of how public policy is changed. We must honor the struggle, not avoid the work by indulging in magical thinking. Here’s an…

SD Bill Banning Trans Students From Playing Sports In Accordance With Their Gender Identity Passes

Bill Banning #Trans Students From Playing Sports In Accordance With Their Gender Identity Passes https://t.co/5TcfyLEhO0 #p2 #lgbt #DEM #GOP — New Civil Rights (@newcivilrights) February 9, 2016 More exploitation of…

Anti-Gay Parents Tell TN School Board Gay-Straight Alliance Will Be Used To 'Recruit' Children

Anti-Gay Parents Tell #TN School Board #Gay-Straight Alliance Will Be Used To 'Recruit' Children https://t.co/1bbMYuKZpp #kids #education — New Civil Rights (@newcivilrights) February 9, 2016

LGBTIs and Christian hate: Welby and the Anglican Church need to pick a side

LGBTIs and Christian hate: Welby and the Anglican Church need to pick a side https://t.co/diyRjFY6io pic.twitter.com/ZqxDMOQkKO — Gay Star News (@gaystarnews) February 9, 2016 I couldn’t agree more. There is…

#LGBTWelcoming at White House

Activist Scout writes: Love collecting examples of when people are LGBT welcoming and the White House just gave us a doozie in prep for tomorrow’s trans meeting.

“Lost in the Stars” comes to Washington National Opera

On Sunday evening I watched the tech rehearsal of the first act of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “Lost in the Stars,” based on Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country.”…

The President Speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore

President Obama was right to speak at an American mosque, as Jeb Bush agreed.