Arkansas updates birth certificates for some same-sex couples
Little Rock (AP) – The Arkansas Health Department has decided to issue amended birth certificates for children of same-sex couples who can prove they were married before the child was born, an agency...
View ArticleJudges resume issuing marriage licenses in Mobile County, Alabama
Mobile (AP) – Officials in Alabama’s Mobile County say marriage license operations have resumed despite an order from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore saying judges have a “ministerial duty”...
View ArticleThe Real O’Neals loosely based on life of Dan Savage
Pasadena (AP) – A producer for ABC’s new sitcom “The Real O’Neals” wanted a gay actor for the role of a teenager who comes out to his shocked Catholic family but was prevented by a law designed to...
View ArticleStudy: Teenagers having sex, not getting tested for HIV
Chicago (AP) – Fewer than 1 in 4 high school students who’ve had sex have ever been tested for HIV, a troubling low rate that didn’t budge over eight years, government researchers say. Young adults...
View ArticleIOC lifts restrictions on transgender athletes
London (AP) – Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the...
View ArticleParents join the conversation at 2016 Orlando Youth Empowerment Summit
From Tumblr to transgender trends, the leaders, teachers and students who attended the third annual Orlando Youth Empowerment Summit tackled a wide range of topics of interest to modern LGBT youth....
View ArticleSordid Lives creator Del Shores wants the dating world to know that it is...
Few filmmakers write LGBT stories with equal parts humor and heart and even fewer are able to take that story to cult status, but one who seems to do it with ease is Del Shores, writer/director of the...
View ArticleBirth certificates will determine gender for student-athletes in Texas
Austin (AP) – School superintendents in Texas have overwhelmingly approved a change that requires public school officials to use a birth certificate to determine a student-athlete’s gender. A...
View ArticleThe lovely and talented Miss Coco Peru brings some somewhat happy life advice...
“Oh, hello!” Certainly most of the “Coco-puffs” living in the hilarious wake of Miss Coco Peru’s genius are familiar with this lilt of a welcome, whether by way of misscocoperu.com or just the random...
View ArticleDrag superstar Bianca Del Rio offers up her own brand of guidance in a new...
When I first heard that Bianca Del Rio had written a book, in true Bianca Del Rio fashion I thought, “Wrote a book? I didn’t even know she could read a book!” Cue the laughs. Undoubtedly the greatest...
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