“Widespread, systematic persecution of LGBTI people constitutes a crime against humanity that unquestionably violates international norms,” Judge Michael Ponsor says in his ruling.
Amid noisy protests today from anti-gay religious groups and their supporters, Puerto Rico’s lawmakers continued conducting public hearings designed to tackle LGBT issues affecting the U.S. territory often called our “51st state.”
Obama: "If Russia wants to uphold the Olympic spirit, then every judgment should be made on the track or in the swimming pool or the balance beam and people’s sexual orientation shouldn’t have anything to do with it.”
After two days of closed-session meetings, the county Board of Supervisors has not issued any statement about County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg’s recent controversial actions related to Proposition 8.
Russia's sports minister warned today that Olympians and visitors to the 2014 Sochi Olympics must abide by the nation's anti-gay laws that prohibit "gay propaganda."
Things are changing all over the world: Some good, some very, very bad. Sadly the old adage applies here: The more things change – the more they stay the same.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors plans to meet in a closed session today to discuss what to do about renegade County Clerk Ernest Dronenburg, who failed in his bid to persuade the California Supreme Court to issue a stay to halt same-gender marriages in the Golden State.