Wednesday, January 6, 2010

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Jack Mackenroth, a fashion designer from the hit reality television series "Project Runway," who has been living with HIV for more than 20 years, launched a new "Living Positive By Design: Creating Positive Conversations" online video as part of his national HIV and AIDS education initiative. The new video features discussions from this year's United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) in San Francisco, with Jack interviewing prominent advocates, celebrities and a local HIV doctor, about their important work to help the HIV and AIDS community. The Living Positive By Design campaign, supported by Merck & Co., I& Co., Inc., and videos aim to confront HIV stigma and motivate HIV-positive people to have a positive outlook on life while effectively managing their disease.
On last night’s CBS Late Show with David Letterman, the host announced Amanda Simpson’s historic appointment to a Commerce Department post and revealed that she is transgender, displaying a photograph of her.  The show’s announcer, Alan Kalter, then feigned “trans panic,” implying he had some prior relationship with Simpson but was not aware of her [...]
I’ve known Beth Robinson for over ten years, getting to know her best after her success in bringing the issue of equal rights for same-sex couples before the Vermont Supreme Court.  Her success led to the Vermont legislature creating the then unheard of term “civil unions” in July, 2000. When I lived in Vermont I worked [...]
MENDHAM TWP. - PFLAG, Morris County (Parents, Family and Friends of Gays and Lesbians), is a confidential, mutual support group to help parents, grandparents and friends adjust to a child’s gay or lesbian orientation. The group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month at Brookside Community Church, 8 E. Main St.
An anonymous donor has gifted the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center with a $50,000 endowment.
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Buffalo woman says she may permanently lose her sight in one eye because of an alleged gay-bashing incident outside a lesbian bar on New Year's Eve.


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