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Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is jumping into the middle of an uproar within the gay community whose causes he has long championed. The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a push in the Senate for a federal ban on job bias against gays, lesbians and bisexuals -- but not...

The national Log Cabin Republicans group today sent an email to their list urging members to send messages of support to Eastside Congressman Dave Reichert who was one of the few Republicans in the House to vote in favor of ENDA -- the Employment Non Discrimination Act that finally passed late last year...

As The Advocate reported earlier this week, a strong majority of gays and lesbians supported passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act even though it did not include protections for transgender people, according to a poll commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign. Since then, The Advocate has obtained...

Matt Foreman of NGLTF -- The Task Force -- quoted in LA Times: "The last five weeks have been divisive and ugly and utterly unnecessarily." Exactly. Too bad it took him five weeks to figure it out.

Congressman Doc Hastings (R-Pasco) tries to avoid the spotlight according to most reports. His most notable national achievement was to do virtually nothing while he was chairman of the House Ethics Committee while the GOP controlled Congress. He did, however, find himself on national TV when the committee...

Source: Washington Blade The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s most prominent mainline civil rights organization, called on members of the House of Representatives today to vote for a gay-only version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The LCCR made its views known on ENDA in...

Source: The Advocate According to a new poll, 70% of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-discrimination Act that does not include transgender people over not passing the bill at all. The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign and conducted on October 26, surveyed 500 members of the...

Gay City News (NYC) broke the story a few hours ago: House leadership apparently believes that they have the votes to pass the stripped down (what I've been calling LGB-No-T) version of ENDA in a floor vote tomorrow (Tuesday). According to GCN, Rep. Tammy Baldwin will introduce her amendment for...

Source: Gay City News Gay City News has confirmed that the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, delayed for the past month due to debate over whether or not the gay rights measure should include protections against bias motivated by an individual's gender identity or expression, will go before...

Source: TransGriot.blogspot.com by Monica Roberts Why does the transgender community hate HRC? It’s a question I get frequently asked in GLBT settings. Considering the recent GLBT family feud erupting over ENDA, it's an appropriate one to ask as well. Before I get started trying to shed light on...