LGBTQ+-related laws include but are not limited to: government recognition of same-sex relationships, LGBT adoption, sexual orientation and military service, immigration equality, anti-discrimination laws, hate crime laws regarding violence against LGBT people, sodomy laws, anti-lesbianism laws, and higher ages of consent for same-sex activity.
University of Mississippi Investigating Anti-Gay Heckling at Theater Performance
OXFORD, Miss. — Every seat in the house was sold out for Friday’s performance of “The Laramie Project,” a play staged by the University of Mississippi theater department about an anti-gay hate crime.
Read more in The New York Times.
U. of Mississippi Athletes Accused of Anti-Gay Heckling
University of Mississippi officials are investigating an incident in which 20
Ole Miss Apologizes After Football Players’ Reported Use of Antigay Slurs
The chancellor and athletic director of the University of Mississippi apologized on Thursday after a report in the university’s student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, said that a group of football players and other students had used antigay slurs during a campus production of the play The Laramie Project, according to USA Today and a letter
Unlikely Debate on Gay Rights in California Town
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — The mayor of Porterville did not give it much thought when a local gay activist in this remote Central Valley farming town asked her to proclaim June a month of gay pride. But when the mayor, Virginia R. Gurrola, settled into her seat at City Hall to sign the proclamation, people were
Catholic College Rescinds Invitation to Speaker Defending Same-Sex Marriage
Providence College, a Roman Catholic school in Rhode Island, has canceled a lecture in support of same-sex marriage on Thursday by a gay philosophy professor, citing a church document that says that “Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our
Engineering Bigotry?
The articles in Prism, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education, focus on new research and teaching ideas. And the magazine periodically writes about efforts to diversify engineering.
Many readers of Prism were shocked this month when they found that the magazine published a letter with what would typically be considered anti-gay rhetoric. The
Prop. 8 backers behind effort to repeal transgender law
SAN FRANCISCO–The National Organization for Marriage, which backed Proposition 8’s now defunct ban on same-sex marriage, announced Friday that it would work to repeal a new California law that permits transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, not their physical sex.
Transgender teen crowned homecoming queen at O.C. high school
Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night when she learned that she had been crowned homecoming queen.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Transgender Theology Professor Says University Asked Him to Leave
Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian institution in Southern California, has asked a professor who was once its chair of theology and philosophy to leave after he came out as transgender, the Religion News Service reported. The professor has been known as Heather Clements for most of his 15 years at Azusa, but in