Wednesday Morning News: Sydney Attacks, Iranian Poet, Puerto Rico, Wrinkle in Time, Hump Day Hottie
ISRAEL: Gay Iranian poet requests asylum … “The confirmation of Maite Oronoz Rodríguez as the first openly LGBT Chief Justice in Puerto Rico and the United States makes history, breaks barriers, and marks a momentous step towards achieving a …
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Nigeria: USA Reduces Aid to 1.9 Million Nigerians Living With HIV Over Gay Support
Nigeria: USA Reduces Aid to 1.9 Million Nigerians Living With HIV Over Gay Support
About 95 percent of the infected patients largely depend on the ART from the United States, US, government and Global Fund, which has been drastically scaled down as a result of Nigeria’s refusal to accede to gay union. This was as revealed, Tuesday …
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Live updates: New Zealand Cricket Awards
Live updates: New Zealand Cricket Awards
The New Zealand Cricket awards are being held at the Viaduct Events … The clinking of glasses, general chat cacophony and pictures in front of the ANZ flowerwall are over. The background music fades and MC Laura McGoldrick introduces the agenda for …
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Khloe Kardashian reveals her 'Uncle OJ' stayed for weeks at father's house and children kept away due to bomb threats
Khloe Kardashian reveals her 'Uncle OJ' stayed for weeks at father's house and children kept away due to bomb threats
Khloe Kardashian revealed during her chat show on Wednesday that she was sensitive about … He is such a free spirit, he is not about titles, he has never said he is gay or anything like that, but I just love that at such a young age his confidence …
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Debunking the "bathroom bill" myth: GLAAD releases new resource for journalists
Debunking the "bathroom bill" myth: GLAAD releases new resource for journalists
Today, GLAAD released a media guide for journalists covering stories related to LGBT nondiscrimination, in collaboration with a coalition of state and national LGBT advocacy organizations. Debunking the “Bathroom Bill” Myth – Accurate Reporting on LGBT Nondiscrimination: A Guide for Journalists comes after the defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) in late 2015, as well as bills in both Georgia and South Dakota which threaten to harm transgender people. The guide will be useful for media outlets following the 85 nondiscrimination and anti-LGBT bills that are on the horizon across the country.
“Anti-LGBT activists are viciously putting a target on our children’s backs by using fearmongering and misinformation in a desperate attempt to legalize discrimination,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President & CEO. “Accurate reporting is crucial to provide voters with the realities of these bills. This guide will help media tell the real story of transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances.”
“It’s imperative that the media fairly and accurately report on the discrimination faced by transgender people and the importance of laws which provide protections for them in housing, employment, and public spaces. Alarmist attempts to frighten voters into rejecting fair treatment for trans people must be challenged by journalists well armed with the facts,” said Nick Adams, Director of Programs for Transgender Media at GLAAD.
Nondiscrimination ordinances were recently in the national spotlight surrounding the late 2015 repeal of HERO, which outlawed discrimination against many communities, including the transgender community. In the successful campaign to repeal the ordinance, opponents used misinformation and exploited outdated stereotypes and fears about transgender people, falsely suggesting that the law would put women and children at risk. Making matters worse, many local news outlets repeated these messages, often without questioning the validity of the claims, thereby providing free airtime and a veneer of legitimacy to claims that were easily proved false.
Debunking the “Bathroom Bills” Myth – Accurate Reporting on LGBT Nondiscrimination: A Guide for Journalists provides background on these ordinances, highlights the importance of fair and accurate reporting, points out the fallacies of so-called “Bathroom Bills,” and details the impact of media-amplified myths and misinformation during the HERO campaign. Other helpful resources include best practices for media coverage in addition to terms, definitions, and pitfalls to avoid. The guide was developed in collaboration with Equality California, Freedom for All Americans, the Gill Foundation, the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), and the Transgender Law Center (TLC).
February 25, 2016
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www.glaad.org/blog/debunking-bathroom-bill-myth-glaad-releases-new-resource-journalists
Dear New Dáil: What you can do to bring emigrants like me home
Dear New Dáil: What you can do to bring emigrants like me home
Looking back to Ireland from here is like taking a time machine to an archaic land. Marriage is equal in Ireland and gay couples now have the right to adopt children. As one of the thousands of people whose lives this affected, I was so proud to be Irish …
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Revealed: America's Backup Plan in Case of War with China
Revealed: America's Backup Plan in Case of War with China
The United States can no longer count on its Pacific air bases to be … which later based the B-29 Superfortresses Enola Gay and Bockscar which took off from Tinian’s North Field and dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Trudeau’s attendance will be source of pride for parade-goers: Teitel
Trudeau’s attendance will be source of pride for parade-goers: Teitel
Last summer at a popular gay pride event in Toronto where the city’s best drag … when the prime minister of Canada graces us with his presence. Pride Toronto organizers announced this week that for the first time in history, the prime minister (a.k.a …
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Australian opposition leader calls right-wing MP a ‘homophobe’… to his face
Australian opposition leader calls right-wing MP a ‘homophobe’… to his face
Ensuring the well-being of all students and their equal access to education is what this program is all about.” The anti-gay Australian Christian Lobby said: “This is a great first step to getting this program de-funded and taken out of our schools.”
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Live chat at noon: Chef Meghan Young talks food and what's new at Lancaster City Restaurant Week
Live chat at noon: Chef Meghan Young talks food and what's new at Lancaster City Restaurant Week
Join LancasterOnline at noon Thursday, Feb. 25, when Food writer Mary Ellen Wright shares your foodie questions during a live chat with Characters Pub chef and owner Meghan Young. With Lancaster City Restaurant Week — March 1-6 — right around the …
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