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Bishop Harry Jackson: Gays ‘want to recruit your kids’
Speaking at Glenn Beck’s Under God Indivisible Conference, anti-gay Bishop Harry Jackson unleashed a screed against marriage equality and called upon Christians to unite against gay rights in a new ‘rainbow coalition,’ saying that religious leaders must “steal back the rainbow.
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Richard Noble walks across America to spread his dream of LGBT equality
On a March day last year, Richard Noble decided it was high time to take a walk; after 15 months and 2,700 miles, he became the first man to walk across America with the rainbow pride flag. Noble and the rainbow pride flag left San Francisco with hopes of spreading what he calls “the dream.”
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Not everyone is pleased with General Motors’ support for Pride
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — LGBT employees and allies at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., celebrated this year’s Pride with a rainbow flag raised at the factory on Sunday.
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Effigy of Obama on American soil: Beyond offensive, sadly typical
The gloves are off and the masks have been removed in the United States as apparently it has become acceptable, even fashionable, to bully your fellow citizens — or better still, hang an effigy of your president, who happens to be black, with a noose, and in a part of the country where not too long ago, that in of itself was quietly approved.
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Rainbow flag will fly high over San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood
SAN DIEGO — Very soon, San Diego’s LGBT community will see a colorful symbol of their pride flying high above the Hillcrest neighborhood. On Tuesday, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve a proposal by the Hillcrest Business Association.
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Scott Lively’s anti-gay lunacy: ‘The Global Threat of Homosexuality’
Scott Lively delivered an hour long speech recently entitled “The Global Threat of Homosexuality” at Resurrection Life of Jesus church in Sacramento and it was, as you can imagine, chock full of all sorts of anti-gay lunacy as Lively sought to make clear that homosexuality is not a sin just like any other sin, but rather a warning sign that our society is on the verge of collapse.
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Millions expected to dress in purple, in person and online, for Spirit Day
Millions of Americans will dress in purple on Thursday — both in person and online — to mark the second annual Spirit Day, a day demonstrate support for LGBT youth and to speak out against bullying.
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North Wales police stations to display rainbow stickers to encourage reporting of anti-gay crimes
The North Wales Police Department on Friday said that it will be reinforcing its commitment to equality and diversity by displaying rainbow flag stickers at police front counters across its jurisdiction to encourage LGBTQ people to report anti-gay bias-based crimes.
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Virginia lawmaker says flying gay pride flag at Federal Reserve is a felony
The decision of the Federal Reserve Bank of Virginia on Wednesday to fly a gay pride flag in honor of LGBT pride month, has drawn criticism from conservative groups, and at least one state lawmaker who said flying the flag is a crime.
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Neighborhood association, gay community square off over rainbow flags in Castro district
Community activists in San Francisco’s predominantly gay Castro neighborhood are outraged by a recent statement by the Mission Delores Neighborhood Association calling for removal of the Rainbow flags that are hung from the light posts in the Castro.