Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
The poster of a baby wearing a wristband labelled "homosexual" in an advertising campaign against homophobia has sparked a row in Italy.
Source: eurweb.com
...A simple appearance on "The Tonight Show" to plug her new movie "Things We Lost in the Fire" turned disastrous for Halle Berry after a joke she told was viewed as anti-Semitic...
Source: womensenews.org
Negative recruiting" in college sports can refer to a coach's criticism of a competing school. But in women's sports it focuses on an opposing coach's sexual orientation so often that an organized response to the problem is now underway.
Source: MSNBC
The city has decided that the Boy Scouts chapter here must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts. The organization's Cradle of Liberty Council, which currently pays $1 a year in rent, must pay the increa …
Source: Bint Jbeil
In his book, Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews, Giladi discusses the crimes committed by Zionists in their frenzy to import raw Jewish labor.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office has asked New York City's Law Department to reduce the fee for registering a domestic partnership from $36 to $35, the fee charged straight couples for a marriage license, the New York Times reported.
Source: The New York Times
Senator Barack Obama said the leader of the civil rights division of the Justice Department should step down after comments about elderly minority voters.
Source: The Seattle Times
Philadelphia officials have decided the Boy Scouts chapter must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.
Source: Independent.co.uk
Haiti is the least developed country in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the poorest. More than half its population is unemployed and 70 per cent rely on the land for food and income.
Source: AlterNet.org
When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system.
Source: dailystaregypt.com
September 11 was the beginning of a new era. Like every era, a new enemy was created, subjected to discrimination. "Racial profiling had a new poster boy: he was young, Arab and Muslim."
Source: AlterNet.org
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) rebuked a Justice Department voting official Friday night who said Ohio's African American voters faced long lines in the 2004 presidential election because blacks tend to vote at night.
Source: The New York Times
Women have been thrown out of men's bathrooms, men who identify as women have been thrown out of women's bathrooms and, of course, men have been known to get into trouble in men's rooms.
Source: Independent.co.uk
When one of the poorest, least fancied teams in professional baseball suddenly races out of nowhere and qualifies for the World Series playoffs, you might call it, well, a miracle.
Source: Live Science
Social scientists have studied it, lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math, science and engineering fields.
Source: The New York Times
A noose was hung on the door of a black professor's office at Columbia University Teacher's College yesterday.
Source: Telegraph
Ten white farmers appeared in court in Zimbabwe yesterday accused of growing crops on their land — in a country where millions of people will need food aid within the next few months.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The African community in the south-west New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga says it has faced abuse since federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said African refugees were slow to integrate.
Source: deadlinehollywooddaily.com
This comes to me from three different producers, so I know it's real: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead".
Source: The New York Times
An extreme right-wing party has turned Switzerland's election campaign into a debate on immigration.
Source: New York Post
Now they have a white man to blame for Isiah's actions. It may well be true though.
Source: The L.A. Times
The first generation of openly gay Americans chalked up a lot of firsts -- a gay-rights march in Washington, openly gay politicians in national office and out-of-the-closet actors on sitcoms.
Source: Scholars and Rogues
With ENDA once again in sight, gays and lesbians have, in so many words, been asked to leave their transgender brothers and sisters behind in order to "get theirs." The infighting ensues.
Source: bostonreview.net
According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States—with five percent of the world's population—houses 25 percent of the world's inmates. We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the combined work f …
Source: Google
To say that ending legal discrimination on the basis of sexuality somehow provides queer and transgender people with special rights is ludicrous. ...