LGBTQ+ – Page 33 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

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.

Ban on Gays May Be Lifted by Boy Scouts

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:13+00:00 January 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

The Boy Scouts of America, with its traditions of youth in uniform and the character-building virtues of honor, has always looked back to an older, more structured image of America, when gay and lesbian people were invisible and silent. It was a view reaffirmed in Scout policy as recently

Sewers, Curfews and a Ban on Gay Bias

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:13+00:00 January 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

VICCO, Ky. — In a former pool hall that is now the municipal building for a coal smudge of a place in eastern Kentucky called Vicco, population 335, the January meeting of the City Commission came to order. Commissioners and guests settled into patio chairs, bought at a discount and arranged around a long conference

Gay marriage opponents take unusual tack with Supreme Court

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-28T08:51:07+00:00 January 28th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

Lawyers defending the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Prop. 8 argue that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex unions because they alone can ‘produce unplanned and unintended offspring.’

Officer’s lesbian spouse gets membership in Ft. Bragg spouse club

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

Ending a controversy that highlighted the unequal treatment of gay spouses in the military, an officers’ spouse club at Ft. Bragg, N.C., has offered full membership to the lesbian spouse of a U.S. Army officer.

VIDEO: Gospel of Intolerance

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-23T16:22:16+00:00 January 23rd, 2013|LGBTQ+|

The filmmaker Roger Ross Williams reveals how money donated by American evangelicals helps to finance a violent antigay movement in Uganda.

Backed by State Money, Georgia Scholarships Go to Schools Barring Gays

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-22T17:18:23+00:00 January 22nd, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, LGBTQ+|

ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.

Obama’s inaugural speech gives hope to gay marriage supporters

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-22T16:55:56+00:00 January 22nd, 2013|LGBTQ+|

His call to give gay people equality ‘under the law’ intensifies supporters’ optimism that the White House will argue for same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.

Op-Ed: Gays in sports: On the field — and in the closet

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-14T16:36:08+00:00 January 14th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

In sports like professional football, gay athletes may have good reason to keep their sexual orientation to themselves.

Gay military spouses continue to face hurdles

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-14T16:31:35+00:00 January 14th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

Even after the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ same-sex marriages are still not federally recognized, restricting families’ access to services and benefits.

Generation LGBTQIA

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-10T16:22:04+00:00 January 10th, 2013|LGBTQ+|

STEPHEN IRA BEATTY, a junior at Sarah Lawrence College, uploaded a video last March on We Happy Trans, a site that shares “positive perspectives” on being transgender.