Gay & Lesbian News Flash

• Jacksonville Baptists respond to proposed gay rights ordinance

  JACKSONVILLE (FBW) - A bill before the Jacksonville City Council granting civil rights protections for sexual orientation and gender identity is generating opposition from most Southern Baptists in the local association, while two pastors have endorsed the measure.

• LGBT population's rights under threat, NGO report finds

  BELGRADE, STRASBOURG -- The lesbian rights NGO Labris presented on Tuesday in Belgrade its annual report, that said the rights of the LGBT population in Serbia were endangered.

• City council OKs draft of anti-discrimination ordinance

  In what proved to be a surprise to both proponents and opponents of gay rights, the Hutchinson City ...

• Call For Investigation into Death Of Honduran Journalist

  “I condemn the murder of Erick Martínez Ávila,” UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, said in a news release.

• City: Gays get limited anti-bias protection

  In what proved to be a surprise to both proponents and opponents of gay rights, the Hutchinson City ...

• A List Remains for Obama Even After Marriage Equality

  One GetEQUAL activist says that when President Obama articulated his evolution, everyone seemed to forget where else he either hasn’t evolved or hasn’t acted. read more

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• Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: Father Dobson May No Longer Know Best

  For the last decade Soulforce has been asking for a face-to-face meeting with Focus on the Family to discuss our concerns about Dr. Dobson's harmful speech about gay people, but each time we pulled up to the FOF headquarters, our volunteers were arrested. Something changed this time.

• Opinion: Right's role in gay marriage

  Michael Dorf and Sidney Tarrow say a back-burner issue for LGBT community became a rallying cry for gay activisits only when conservatives brought their opposition to the national stage

• How the right helped launch same-sex marriage movement

  After President Barack Obama made his tepid endorsement of same-sex marriage last week, the pundits, from Fox News all the way to The New York Times, quickly pivoted from asking why to whether it will hurt him politically.

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