Wednesday, September 30, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Logo, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), and Subaru of America have begun an on-air and online campaign that focuses on legacy building. The 6-month campaign will feature prominent gay and lesbian entertainers, artists and leaders in videos that will launch at LogoLegacyCampaign.com and on Logo's sites including, LOGOonline.com, AfterEllen.com, AfterElton.com and Downelink.com.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Just as former President Bill Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper this past week, "I was wrong" about same-sex marriage referring to the law against it that he had signed early in his administration, and revealed that he is now in support of it, "Mr. Right," a film from director Jacqui Morris and screenwriter David Morris, is set to premiere in Hollywood, October 9, at the Laemmle's Sunset Five Cinema.
Rev. Eric Lee, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), met with Washington, DC-area clergy on Tuesday at HRC’s offices to share his insight and experience building support for marriage equality as part of a week-long trip to DC. Rev. Lee explained he naturally felt that marriage equality in California is [...]
This post on yesterday’s Family Day Proclamation from the White House comes from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Family Project Director Ellen Kahn: Something truly remarkable happened yesterday, something that moved us closer to the LGBT Equality goal line (it is football season, right?).  While many of us were caught up in the Monday “back to work” [...]
Daryl Herrschaft, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Workplace Project director, shares his thoughts wrapping up the “Police to Practice” blog series: Over the past two weeks, the HRC Workplace Project has released the new Corporate Equality Index 2010 results (our eighth annual report) and the results of two years of research with “Degrees of Equality: A [...]
On Saturday the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives opened their permanent new home in an (appropriately old) house on Isabella between Church and Yonge Streets. After being transient for many years, the CLGA now has an impressive space to properly store their vast archive and mount exhibitions. A new and large chunk of that archive [...]
President Obama included gay and lesbian families in his proclamation for Family Day 2009.
A billboard featuring a local ex-Marine who is gay was vandalized Friday night, but the gay and lesbian organization that paid for it plans to restore it and hold a rally against the vandalism Sunday. The marine is Tim Smith, 27, who served from 2001-2005 when he was discharged under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. "This was a pretty visceral attack symbolically against the community ...

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