“Milk” earns 8 Oscar nods as new Equality Magazine with Harvey Milk cover hits mailboxes
January 22, 2009
Today the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Milk, the biopic on America's first openly gay elected official Harvey Milk, has been nominated for eight Academy Awards.
Continue Reading ►Official White House website outlines LGBT platform
January 21, 2009
President Obama's slick and cool new Whitehouse.gov portal was launched shortly after he was sworn-in on Tuesday - and it already includes the platform on LGBT rights that was published on his presidential transition website.
Continue Reading ►Tom Hanks: Mormon supporters of Prop 8 are “Un-American”
January 16, 2009
Tom Hanks, executive producer for HBO’s “Big Love,” the "exquisitely plotted" series about the lives of a rich Salt Lake City man and his three wives, publicly expressed his disapproval of the Mormon Church and its members spending millions of dollars to pass Prop 8.
Continue Reading ►NYT Op-ed: U.S. Civil Rights Commission should make LGBT equality a top priority
January 16, 2009
In an op-ed in today's New York Times, Mary Frances Berry, former chairwoman of the Commission on Civil Rights, calls for President-elect Obama to repurpose the commission to focus on LGBT equality as a top priority.
Continue Reading ►State Department LGBT group welcomes Clinton support for reviewing unequal policies
January 14, 2009
Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA), the U.S. State Department LGBT employee group, said yesterday that they are pleased with Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Clinton's statement during her confirmation hearing yesterday that she would review policies to see what could be changed to assist LGBT personnel at the Department of State, USAID, and other foreign affairs agencies.
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