Ukraine LGBT Leaders Urge Community To Rise Up Against Hate Crimes
There should be no place in Ukraine for aggression against minority groups, said LGBT activist Olena Shevchenko during a gathering outside Kyiv’s City Hall on Friday. The rally was held to…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
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Jason Collins Takes on New York City Marathon
Jason Collins Takes on New York City Marathon
Collins will join other major figures in professional basketball to encourage kids to exercise.
Annie Hollenbeck
www.advocate.com/sports/2014/11/01/jason-collins-takes-new-york-city-marathon
Neil Patrick Harris And Family Dress As Batman Characters For Halloween
Neil Patrick Harris And Family Dress As Batman Characters For Halloween
Neil Patrick, husband David Burtka and their adorable kids are no strangers to stunning Halloween costumes. Over the years, they’ve gone all out with their looks — much to the delight of fans — and this year was no different.
Harris tweeted a photo of himself with his family as characters from Batman, with Harris as the Riddler, Burtka as the Joker, son Gideon as Batman and daughter Harper as (what appears to be) Batgirl.
Happy Halloween from Gotham City!! pic.twitter.com/3gzmG44iEf
— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) October 31, 2014
Last year Harris and the gang went as classic horror movie monsters.
You know what they say — the family that dresses up together, stays together.
Final Push to Get Out the Vote in Colorado
Final Push to Get Out the Vote in Colorado
HRC is on-the-ground in Colorado to help elect fair-minded candidates.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/final-push-to-get-out-the-vote-in-colorado?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Eight Egyptian Men Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for 'Inciting Debauchery' in Gay Wedding Video
Eight Egyptian Men Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for 'Inciting Debauchery' in Gay Wedding Video
An Egyptian judge has sentenced eight men to three years in prison on charges of spreading indecent images and inciting debauchery for appearing in a video allegedly showing the country’s first gay wedding ceremony, Reunters reports:
The judge ruled that they would also be subject to police supervision following the completion of their prison sentence.
The sentence was met with uproar from the families of the defendants, who demonstrated outside the courthouse in downtown Cairo and were cleared by police. The defendants, who had denied the charges, stood silent in the court room cage as the verdict was read, one of them holding up a copy of the Koran. […]
The men were first charged in September when a public prosecutor’s statement said that the images were “humiliating, regrettable and would anger God”, concluding that they constituted a criminal act. The prosecutor ordered the coroner to carry out physical examinations as part of the investigation.
BBC adds that although homosexuality is legal in Egypt, it remains taboo and police raids on gay establishments have risen in recent months.
The BBC’s Middle East editor Sebastian Usher says Islamists had led the chorus of outrage against the video, saying that it proved moral standards had dropped since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was removed from power last year.
Last month, we reported on the growing concerns that Egyptian authorities were utilizing new online monitoring softwar to target LGBT peple in the country.
Kyler Geoffroy
BOSTON: Former Mayor And Longtime LGBT Ally Tom Menino Dies At 71
BOSTON: Former Mayor And Longtime LGBT Ally Tom Menino Dies At 71
BOSTON: Former Mayor And Longtime LGBT Ally Tom Menino Dies At 71.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKFkd9Qjr4A&feature=youtube_gdata
Idaho Gov. Sticks to Money-Wasting Defense of Antigay Marriage Law
Idaho Gov. Sticks to Money-Wasting Defense of Antigay Marriage Law
Despite several court rulings and a decided victory in the court of public opinion, Idaho governor Butch Otter isn’t willing to let marriage equality take hold in the Gem State.
Sunnivie Brydum
Awesome Mom Wants Federal Investigation Into Gay Son’s Bashing
Awesome Mom Wants Federal Investigation Into Gay Son’s Bashing
Dylan Beard’s “friends” are definitely awful people — they lured the 17-year-old to a skate park and then beat him up while shouting gay slurs. Making matters worse, the local police were like “eh,” and haven’t really don’t much about it.
But the good news is that his family is completely awesome.
His mom, Jennifer Beard has hired an attorney and now they’re demanding action from the Department of Justice. They want the attack investigated as a hate crime. Texas is one of the states that identifies sexual orientation as a category for hate crimes (but not gender expression).
And Dylan’s uncle, Tom Plunkett, is furious too. “As a military veteran it kind of disappoints me, a country I defended,” he said. It sucks that Dylan endured this attack, but bless his family for being so supportive.
Dylan is home-schooled, and doesn’t really know his attackers that well. It’s totally mysterious why they would decide to coordinate an attack on him.
According to his mom, police didn’t care that the attackers bragged about it on social media. In fact, the police told reporters that they didn’t know about the bragging at all — but that’s how Jennifer found out about the beating in the first place. (Her son’s black eye and broken nose might also have been a good clue.)
A few months ago, Austin rallied around a victim of a hate crime. A local dentist did reconstructive surgery to fix the nine (!) teeth that were beaten out of a victim’s mouth.
matt baume