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FINALLY! President Obama Announces He Will Sign Executive Order Protecting LGBT Federal Contract Workers
Share this: President Barack Obama will sign an order banning federal government contractors from discriminating against gay and transgender workers, officials have said. The executive order follows years of requests and pressure from the...
Queer Nation & GetEqual Disrupt IOC Olympic Event In Boston – Picabo Street Shows Insensitivity
Share this: Queer Nation and GetEqual Massachusetts disrupted the opening event of the US Olympic Committee’s Road to Sochi tour stop in Boston, demanding answers about the safety of LGBT Olympians, American spectators and also LGBT Russians. Activist...
BREAKING – Senate Committee Sets Vote for ENDA Set For July10th
Share this:The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee has scheduled the markup for ENDA (The Employment Non-Discrimination Act) two weeks to the day that the Supreme Court ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s...
BREAKING – GetEQUAL Protests The Values Voters Summit, Security and Crowd React Violently – VIDEO
Share this:Just minutes ago, GetEQUAL – a national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization – protested inside the “Values Voter Summit” at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Activists walked...
Dallas, TX Gay Couple Arrested After Being Refused Marriage License
Share this:Beau Chandler and his partner, Mark “Major” Jiminez were arrested yesterday at Dallas County Clerk Records Building after handcuffing themselves together because they were refused a marriage license. At 4:30 p.m when the building...
Video – Get Equal Member Gives NOM’s Maggie Gallagher "Anita Bryant Award" for Bigotry
Share this: He should have hit her in a face with a pie.
Daily DADT News Clusterf**k Round-up: Is Robin McGehee and GetEQUAL Becoming Part Of Gay Inc?, Lieberman "We Got 60 Votes!", Senators Susan Collins and Carl Lugar MIGHT Vote YES to DADT Repeal, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) Is A NAZI! (Video)
Share this:i * Oh for the good old days when GetEQUAL and it’s Founder and Co-Director Robin McGehee would be sending out tons of Press Releases to EVERYONE in hopes that someone would print them. (After all, they have the Former...
13 Gay Vets and Activist Chain Themselves To White House Fence. It Should Be 1300! – STAND UP and ACT OUT!
Share this:Thirteen gay rights advocates, veterans, and advocates for repeal of DADT chained themselves to the White House fence today and were arrested as they called on U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and President Obama to do the RIGHT...
Homo Say What? – "Democrat First – Homo Second" Barney Frank Calls GetEQUAL’s ENDA Activist Protest: ‘Stupid ‘
Share this: Well it seems Barney “Democrat first, Homo second” Frank wasn’t none too pleased by yesterday’s GetEQUAL action at a House Labor Committee: From MetroWeekly: ”What a stupid thing to do.” Those were the first...
