After appearing on New York radio show last Friday, where he made homophobic and inflammatory remarks about the transgender community, including Caitlyn Jenner, Waka Flocka Flame took to Twitter on Saturday to apologize and clarify what he meant when he used “transgender + evil” in the same sentence. While explaining why he and his wife […]
GLOUCESTER, Va. (AP) — Amid the cornfields and marinas dotting this conservative tidewater Virginia enclave between the York River and Mobjack Bay, people are divided over what one local pastor calls “the civil rights issue of this generation” — how to deal with a transgender student’s demand to use the boys’ restrooms at the local […]
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday for the first time since being jailed for disobeying a federal judge and said she was faced with a “seemingly impossible choice” between following her conscience and losing her freedom over denying marriage licenses to gay couples. With her voice shaking, she said she […]
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis and her deputy clerks were summoned to appear before U.S. District Judge David […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A county clerk in Kentucky will not immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, her lawyer says, despite a federal judge ordering her to do so Wednesday in a case that seeks to reconcile the country’s new marriage law and its protections of religious freedom. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was […]
Caitlyn Jenner has become a noticeable activist for the LGBTQ community that many people love and support. But the former Olympian’s efforts aren’t sitting well with Raven-Symone, who revealed her concerns about Jenner and her new docuseries “I Am Cait’ on “the View” on Monday (July 27), Us Weekly reports. “I think it’s wonderful, and […]
A Georgia Pastor is coming down hard on members of the church and their anti-LGTBQ criticism. The Huffington Post reports: E. Dewey Smith , who is pastor of the House of Hope Atlanta in Decatur, Georgia, and the House of Hope Macon, chastised his congregation and others who “demonize and dehumanize” artists and even members of […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Schuyler Bailar was a star recruit for the women’s swimming team at Harvard University, a tough competitor with a shot at winning titles. But Bailar is opting to forgo such honors to join the men’s team instead, competing as the first openly transgender swimmer in the NCAA. “It’s half terrifying and […]
A round up of celebrities who support marriage equality.
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The state of Alabama is again at the forefront of change in the United States. It’s been reported that a handful of its cities and…
