Posts Tagged ‘LGBTQIA’

Ypsilanti, MI to host 2010 Women Living Conference

Ypsilanti, MI to host 2010 Women Living Conference
The Women Living 2010 conference is coming to Michigan – and organizers are looking for volunteers and donations to help make it happen. Originally held in Illinois for the past six years, conference planner Barbara Marcotte’s move from Chicago to Michigan signaled the annual HIV-positive...
February 1st, 2010 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

Drug Lord Discovered To Be Intersex

On the drug-ravaged streets he’s known as Fat Murphy. Feared by many, the burly suspected drug lord is clean-shaven and wears his second wife’s name tattooed on his arm. But the man who was banished from a crime-ridden suburb on the Cape Flats by furious residents protesting against alleged drug...
January 11th, 2010 | LGBT, NewsBites, World | Read More

IAAF Offers To Cover Athelete’s Gender Surgery If Needed, Requested

The 18-year old South African runner, Caster Semenya, was subjected to extensive gender tests following questions regarding her gender. The IAAF is still awaiting the final results of the gender verification test carried out on the South African teenager during the World Championships in Berlin in August,...
December 13th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites, Sports | Read More

UPDATE: Uganda To Drop Life Sentances and Death Penalties For Homosexuals

(Bloomberg) — Uganda will drop the death penalty and life imprisonment for gays in a refined version of an anti-gay bill expected to be ready for presentation to Parliament in two weeks, James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of ethics and integrity, said. The draft bill, which is under consideration...
December 9th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

LA TIMES: Marriage Equality Bill Survives First of Two Required Steps

Reporting from Washington – The District of Columbia Council took a major step Tuesday toward joining New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage. In the first of two votes, the council passed a bill 11 to 2. Although the outcome was expected in...
December 2nd, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

United Nations Rejects Punishment Persecution of Homosexuality

Some 80 countries still penalize homosexuals, including passing criminal laws that fuel discrimination against them, the joint United Nations programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) said Tuesday. On World AIDS Day, UNAIDS said that such laws have prevented effective national responses to help those living...
December 1st, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites, Society & Culture, World | Read More

England Leading The Way In Understanding and Accepting Intersexuality

England’s National Health Service is the first to base treatment on the assumption that it should be acceptable for boys and girls to look far from “normal”. That doctors may be better off doing nothing to “fix” the kind of confusing genitals that incite laddish, locker-room bullying....
December 1st, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites, Society & Culture, World | Read More

Report Shows Blatant Disregard For LGBT Senior Healthcare

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) have just released Outing Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Elders, an update to the Task Force’s groundbreaking Outing Age report issued in 2000. Like its...
November 24th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More

Austria To Recognize Same-Sex Marriages

The government of Austria has cleared the way for state recognition of same-sex civil unions from the start of next year. The necessary legislation was agreed yesterday in a compromise between the ruling Social Democrats (SPÖ) and their junior, conservative coalition partners, the People’s Party...
November 18th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites, World | Read More

Massachusetts Struggles To Gain Support For Anti-Bullying Measure

ABC News reports national studies show that 27 percent of kids in grades 6 through 12 say they have been bullied in the last 30 days. And 8 percent of American 8th graders reporting missing one day of school per month because of bullying. A survey just released by the Massachusetts Advocates for Children...
November 17th, 2009 | LGBT, NewsBites | Read More
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