LGBTQ+ – Page 37 – 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.

California Is First State to Ban Gay ‘Cure’ for Minors

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:04+00:00 October 1st, 2012|LGBTQ+|

California has become the first state to ban the use for minors of disputed therapies to “overcome” homosexuality, a step hailed by gay rights groups across the country that say the therapies have caused dangerous emotional harm to gay and lesbian teenagers.

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In San Francisco, Prop. 8 backer to head Catholic Church

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:05+00:00 September 24th, 2012|LGBTQ+|

SAN FRANCISCO — The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed the “Bombshell by the Bay.”

Next week, a key player in the passage of Proposition 8 — a man who has decried the “contraceptive mentality” of modern life — will become the leader of the Catholic Church here in the city that thrust same-sex

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Since Suicide, More Resources for Transgender and Gay Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:05+00:00 September 24th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — It has been two years since Tyler Clementi, a gay freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide after learning that his roommate had ridiculed his sexuality and invited friends to spy on him and another man through a webcam. That terrible episode brought the school national attention, none of it welcome: previously

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Primary Results Close for 2 G.O.P. Legislators Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:06+00:00 September 14th, 2012|LGBTQ+|

Two Republican state senators who provided pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage last year fought opponents to a standstill on Thursday in primary races so close that they will be decided only after absentee ballots are counted.

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Catholic College Draws Fire for Course That Calls Homosexuality ‘Deviant’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 11th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

A course at the Franciscan University of Steubenville that cites homosexuality as “deviant behavior” has sparked an outcry from the Ohio institution’s gay alumni, and could jeopardize the accreditation of its social-work program, NPR reports.

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Marines accused of assaulting man outside gay bar in Long Beach

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 6th, 2012|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Four U.S. Marines face possible assault and hate crime charges in connection with the Labor Day weekend beating of a man outside a gay bar in Long Beach, authorities said Wednesday.

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Jury Awards $4.5-Million to Former Student Leader Attacked on Anti-Gay Blog

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:27+00:00 August 17th, 2012|LGBTQ+|

A fired assistant state attorney general in Michigan has been ordered to pay $4.5-million in damages to the former University of Michigan student leader he attacked on an anti-gay blog, the Associated Press reported.

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What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:28+00:00 August 8th, 2012|LGBTQ+|

The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes

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Same-Sex Marriage Foes Urge Support for Chick-Fil-a Chain

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:29+00:00 August 1st, 2012|LGBTQ+|

(Reuters) – Two former Republican presidential candidates are encouraging people to eat at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday to show support for the chain restaurant as it weathers criticism for its president’s public opposition to same-sex marriage.

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Controversial Gay-Parenting Study Is Severely Flawed, Journal’s Audit Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:29+00:00 July 27th, 2012|Education, LGBTQ+|

The peer-review process failed to identify significant, disqualifying problems with a controversial and widely publicized study that seemed to raise doubts about the parenting abilities of gay couples, according to an internal audit scheduled to appear in the November issue of the journal, Social Science Research, that published the study.