Tuesday, January 12, 2010

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Weber Shandwick and the Gill Foundation have released "Business of Change," a resource guide focused on corporate-nonprofit collaboration to promote equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. The 104-page guide, available free to downl
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Logo, the entertainment network for gays and their families and friends, from MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is aggressively setting its original programming course for 2010.   Logo, available in 45 million homes, announced today a number of
Pretrial Brief Refutes Same-Sex 'Marriage' Advocates' Flawed Legal Theories
Today, trial begins in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on the validity of California’s Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment barring marriage equality which was adopted by California voters in November 2008.  The trial will put the arguments against marriage equality to the test and is the first step toward a substantive decision in [...]
As we’ve reported earlier, a bill in the Ugandan legislature would make some homosexual acts punishable by death and failure to report them punishable by jail time.  It all stated last March when three American right-wing extremists, posing as “experts” on homosexuality, led a conference in Uganda where they claimed that gay men prey upon teenagers, that there is a gay [...]
In 2009, the Hawaii State House passed HB 444 — a bill to allow same-sex couples to enter civil unions — with 33 votes, one vote shy of a super-majority.  Unfortunately the bill was held up in the state Senate until the end of the session when it was recalled from the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) â€" Ohio is beginning a pilot project in northeast Ohio aimed at preventing tobacco use by the state's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
Ohio is beginning a pilot project in northeast Ohio aimed at preventing tobacco use by the state's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. Ohio health officials say the Centers for Disease Control estimates the rate of tobacco use among that youth demographic is 60 percent higher than in the general youth population.
Rep. Christine Johnson will serve an additional role when the Utah Legislature convenes this month. The lesbian lawmaker announced she's a surrogate mother, carrying a baby for two gay men.


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