To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. To Write Love On Her...

CNN anchor Don Lemon hosted a program Saturday on black men in the age of Barack Obama. He introduced the subject of gay rights, saying, “This is one issue where the president may not enjoy unified support from African-Americans.” Lemon chatted with a panel of African-American men, who devote much...

SSgt. Eric Alva The Grand Rapids Community College will be kicking of its 15th Diversity Lecture Series tonight with a lecture presented by SSgt. Eric Alva entitled, “Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Staff Sgt. Eric Alva served in the Marine Corps for 13 years. He was a member...

Yesterday, with impressive support from more than 90 initial co-sponsors, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would end such government acts of discrimination by repealing “DOMA.” Congress’s passage of the new bill, appropriately named the...

New Data Contradict Claims that Policy is “Working” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/10/2009 Contact: Alex Nicholson, Servicemembers United (202) 349-1126 | anicholson@servicemembersunited.org Steve Vossler, Servicemembers United (202) 349-1125 | svossler@servicemembersunited.org WASHINGTON, DC – Servicemembers...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A proposal in the Ohio Legislature to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is poised to go further than it ever has. The legislation will get a floor vote in the Democratic-controlled House when lawmakers return next week. But...

Gay Rights Activist? Click the pic to show support for your marriage rights! Opponents of gay marriage on Wednesday cleared a threshold that sets Maine as the next battleground in the ongoing, contentious national debate. On Nov. 3, voters in the state will be asked by Proposition 1 to consider repealing...

In the 1970s San Francisco resident Cleve Jones helped gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk get elected to that city’s board of supervisors. Milk was elected in 1977, but in 1978 was assassinated by another city supervisor Dan White, who also shot and killed the city’s mayor George Moscone....

The National Education Association, representing 3.2 million ecducators nationally, held its 2009 Joint Conference, at the Manchester Hyatt Hotel on Monday, June 29, where 1,000 educators gathered to discuss “Public education, the gateway to global opportunities in a diverse society.” The conference...

Syria has scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences handed down to men convicted of killing female relatives they suspect of having illicit sex. Women’s groups had long demanded that Article 548 be scrapped, arguing it decriminalised “honour” killings. Activists say some 200 women...