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Thursday, May 22
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Source: The State (Columbia) , WACH-TV , WDEF-TV , Miami Herald blog , Columbia, SC -- The principal of a high school here says that he'll resign next year rather than oversee a school where students are allowed to form a Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) club. Eddie Walker, lead administrator at Irmo High School, announced his resignation to students and faculty Wednesday after the school board explained to him that he must allow a GSA group to form on campus. School board members say it's an all or nothing situation. Either you allow non-curricular clubs, or you don't. Since there are many...
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Tuesday, May 20
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Source: Miami Herald Unmarried couples in Miami-Dade won the right to hospital and jail visitation on Tuesday, following an 8-4 vote by the County Commission, and county employees will be able to buy health coverage for their partners. Couples will be able to register their partnerships with the county's Consumer Services Department by late August. The system is open to unmarried, nonrelated couples -- gay or straight -- who are at least 18 and live together. ''It's a matter of compassion, a matter of correcting an injustice, a matter of moving forward as a progressive county,''...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: KOCO-TV , Tulsa World Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- State Rep. Sally Kern has been out of the news lately, but decided to refresh her anti-gay image Thursday with a press release and interviews criticizing a lobby day for workplace fairness. She objected that "radical homosexual rights groups'' that planned a national day on Thursday to promote workplace fairness based on job performance. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said Oklahomans who support what she calls "traditional families" need to get more involved in policy fights "or we will cede the victory...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: Gay People's Chronicle , Toledo Blade , Toledo Free Press Toledo, Ohio -- The University of Toledo administrator who claimed in a newspaper opinion piece that gay people can become straight and are not deserving of civil rights told a group of supporters Wednesday that her constitutional rights were violated when she was fired from the University of Toledo for writing the column. Crystal Dixon said she had a divine mandate to write the column for the Toledo Free Press as a private citizen and that she should not have been fired from her position as associate vice president for human...
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Wednesday, May 07
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Source: Detroit Free Press , Associated Press via MLive.com Lansing, Mich. -- Michigan top court ruled Wednesday that a 2004 ban against gay marriage also blocks governments and state universities from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers. The 5-2 decision from the Supreme Court affirms a state Court of Appeals ruling. The court majority found that language in the amendment prohibiting recognition of other unions "for any purpose" included the extension of benefits to gay and lesbian partners of public employees. Up to 20 public universities, community colleges, school...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: (Salem) Today's Sunbeam , (Newark) Star-Ledger , Associated Press via USA Today , Washington Blade , Crosscut (Seattle) TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey on Friday became the third state to allow workers paid time off to care for a sick family member or new child, with the signing of a law more than 10 years in the making. It's the second state after California to extend the benefits to all families, including gay couples. Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State Equality, told the Washington Blade that his state "arguably leads the way in America amongst state legislatures in advancing...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: Miami Herald Opponents of a domestic partnership proposal for Miami-Dade government employees threatened county commissioners with political retribution at a news conference Friday. ''Every commissioner who does vote for the proposal will be held accountable,'' said Anthony Verdugo, executive director of the Christian Family Coalition. In a statement released before the press conference the coalition of anti-gay groups said that voters "will know the names of those working against the best interest of working families and children." The proposal defines domestic...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News , KUTV If one of its council members gets her way, Salt Lake County may offer all of its employees health insurance, extended funeral leave and a host of other benefits that now apply only to married couples. Democratic Councilwoman Jenny Wilson urged county leaders Tuesday to offer health-care benefits to employees' financially dependent relatives, friends or domestic partners - otherwise known as adult designees - her voice cracking as she spoke of households not yet reached by insurance. "I would hope my colleagues would embrace and support this...
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Tuesday, April 15
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Source: Asheville Citizen-Times , WRAL RALEIGH -- State officials Monday removed a ban on anti-gay discrimination from an online copy of the state's personnel handbook. The prohibition was in one of two copies of the handbook posted online. The removal came after Republican House Minority Leader Paul Stam questioned why the ban appeared in the handbook. North Carolina law does not prevent bias in state employee hiring and discipline based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The State Personnel Commission's attempt to change that was rejected in January by the state Rules Review Commission...
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Monday, April 14
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Source: Daily Breeze The LAPD's first openly gay police officer will get a new trial on his claims that he was the victim of retaliation and sexual orientation discrimination during his second tour of duty with the department, one of his lawyers said today. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James R. Dunn ruled that Mitchell Grobeson should have a new trial on grounds of misconduct by a juror who admitted pre-judging the case and eventually voted in favor of the city, attorney Theresa Traber said. "We're very happy because we feel vindicated," Traber said. "We felt the verdict...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: Record Courier A new contract for Kent State University faculty comes up for review this year, and an early draft released Wednesday includes a clause that could trigger a legal wrangle over a constitutional amendment adopted in 2004 by state voters. The proposed clause extends the same health benefits enjoyed by spouses to domestic partners of faculty members in a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship. University spokesman Ron Kirksey confirmed Wednesday the domestic partnership clause is "part of" the new contract, though talks on the contract remain informal at this time. Several...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: NPR , Grand Rapids Press The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating whether a career attorney in the department was dismissed from her job because of rumors that she is a lesbian, NPR reports. The case grew out of a larger inquiry into the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization at Justice under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The inspector general is investigating whether Hagen's contract was not renewed after a rumor reached Gonzales' chief counsel, Marcia Goodling, that Hagen is a lesbian, NPR reported. "To some people, that's even...
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Tuesday, April 01
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Source: Associated Press via CNBC , AP via Arisona Star , AP via Arizona Sun PHOENIX -- A panel in Arizona, where voters once turned down a constitutional ban on gay marriage, approved a plan Tuesday to provide taxpayer-subsidized health coverage for the domestic partners of state employees and retirees. The Governor's Regulatory Review Council, which has the final say over many agencies' proposed rules, voted 4-0 to approve changes floated by the Department of Administration with support from Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat. Some Republican legislators opposed the move. Dependents of...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Austin American-Statesman , Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas -- Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo suspended a veteran commander for 20 days last week for making comments that Acevedo said demonstrated a "personal bias" toward gay officers and fired a second commander who failed to report it and refused a suspension. The discipline stemmed from a conversation last year in which Cmdr. Calvin Smith told Cmdr. Larry Oliver that he was concerned about the officer's transfer to the training academy because of the "kind of message" it would send, according to a disciplinary...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: Miami Herald Plans to create domestic-partnership rights in Miami-Dade County passed a first test Tuesday, winning a preliminary 8-4 vote by the County Commission. No debate was allowed before the vote, which moves the bill to the commission's Economic Development and Human Services Committee. That group will hold a public hearing March 12 and could move along the bill for a final vote by the full commission in late March or early April. The proposal would let nonrelated couples who live together -- gay or straight -- register with county government and receive the same hospital and...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: Idaho Statesman and Spokesman Review BOISE, Idaho -- The state attorney general's office has issued a nonbinding opinion that the decision by the Moscow City Council in north-central Idaho to extend domestic partner benefits to city employees violates the Idaho Constitution. Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, requested the opinion soon after Moscow approved extending the benefits in December. "I would just like to see them follow what the voters of the state of Idaho said when they passed the marriage amendment," Fulcher told the Idaho Statesman. A conservative group, Idaho Values...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Miami Herald Domestic partnerships could be officially recognized by Miami-Dade government this year, guaranteeing hospital visitation rights and allowing county workers to buy health insurance for their partners. ''It's wrong to deny anyone health insurance or to deny anyone hospital visitation rights,'' said Heddy Peña, executive director of SAVE, Miami-Dade County's leading gay-rights group. ``When someone is at their most vulnerable, they want to know that their family can see them when they're in the ICU ward in a coma.'' Five of the 13 county commissioners...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Hereford Times and Telegraph A GAY man refused a Church job because of his sexuality has been awarded compensation. John Reaney will receive £47,345 from the Diocese of Hereford having won an employment tribunal last June. Mr Reaney, 42, successfully claimed discrimination by the Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Rev Anthony PriddIs, after being refused a job with the Diocese. Priddis was ordered to undergo equal opportunities training and to pay the fine. The youth worker, from Colwyn Bay, was quizzed on a former gay relationship by the Bishop, and was turned down despite glowing reports from...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune A former University of Utah employee says she was fired because she's a lesbian and "mothered animals" instead of children, according to a civil lawsuit filed in 3rd District Court on Wednesday. Heidi Borjesson says her supervisor in the U.'s physics department disliked her sexual orientation and helped a co-worker falsify her resume so the other woman would be promoted and Borjesson would be terminated during staff reductions in 2005, court documents filed Wednesday state. Reached late Wednesday, Remi Barron, a U. spokesman, said he couldn't yet...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Washington Post Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued a revised equal-employment-opportunity policy barring discrimination against any group. Mukasey informed leaders of DOJ Pride last week that the department would give it the same rights as all other DOJ employee organizations, said the group's president, Chris Hook. In a statement, Mukasey said the department will "foster an environment in which...
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Thursday, January 31
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Source: Arizona Republic Public response has been widely supportive of a plan to expand state benefits to domestic partners of state employees, judging from roughly 1,400 e-mails, letters and faxes received by the Arizona Department of Administration. Department spokesman Alan Ecker called it "an extraordinary amount of comment" that was received by the agency during a 30-day window allowed for public response to the proposal late last year. In short, it would allow state employees with domestic partners, gay or straight, to claim the same benefits as married couples. The biggest benefit...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: Metro.co.uk A lesbian who endured sexual harassment in the Army has won her case against the Ministry of Defence and could now collect more than £400,000. [see Qnews summary ] LBdr Kerry Fletcher received a deluge of smutty text messages from a sergeant seeking to bed her. One message boasted about the size of his manhood and said he could turn her straight with sex. LBdr Fletcher, who was with the King's Troop regiment, is seeking £381,000 in damages and compensation. The 31-year-old has another case pending in Birmingham against a colonel, seeking £40,000 for hurt feelings. A friend...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Financial Times Lehman Brothers and other international investment banks are actively recruiting gay and lesbian students who aspire to be bankers. Such is the enthusiasm among investment banks that some have banded together to give their Asian recruiting events a higher profile, taking it in turn to organise lectures, dinners and other events around a gay or lesbian theme. In November, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Merrill Lynch and UBS co-sponsored a cinema evening in Hong Kong which featured The Bubble , a 2006 film about the gay relationship between a Palestinian and an Israeli...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: compiled by seaQwa's Qnews from HRC press release WASHINGTON -- The Human Rights Campaign Foundation on Tuesday released its annual list of the "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality." Companies with good placement on the list have been touting their records in press releases to business journals and local newspapers. The 195 companies that are that included on the list will be able to use the 2008 "Best Places to Work for GLBT Equality" seal to distinguish their company as a fair-minded employer, according to HRC. The seal is given to companies who score a perfect...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: Guardian , BBC News In 2005 when Stonewall's first Workplace Equality Index (WEI) was revealed six of the country's top 100 employers for lesbians and gay men asked to remain anonymous rather than be associated with a "gay list". Happily, that situation is now unthinkable as more and more employers actually compete to make the index list and have their diversity work recognised. Stonewall developed the WEI in 2005 to challenge the UK's leading employers to improve things for their gay staff. Until 2003 it was legal to sack a person because of their sexual orientation...
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