GLBT News

    NEW YORK - New York, Sunday, March 14, 2010 – Sigourney Weaver, Meredith Vieira, Alan Cumming, Bryan Batt, Sarah Paulson, Rosie Perez, Michael Urie, Gavin Creel, and Dustin Lance Black were among the celebrities who joined the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) as it honored Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon, and the best in television and journalism last night at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York.

    ST. LOUIS - Catherine Neville, co-founder of Sauce Magazine, has sold her interest in the publication to business partner Allyson Mace. The March 1 announcement states that Neville will leave the publication and its related brand products, effective immediately.

BY: COLIN MURPHY - SENIOR WRITER

    SPRINGFIELD, IL - The Illinois State Senate is considering a bill (SB3447) to roll back some protections of the Illinois Human Rights Act, which currently prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

    The bill would carve out exceptions to the Act, allowing certain employers and tax-exempt organizations to discriminate against Illinoisans on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

    WASHINGTON – The highest-ranking leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines appeared before Congress this week and testified in support of the strategy to repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law that was laid out by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
 

    ST. LOUIS - In his weekly newsletter, PROMO Executive Director, A.J. Bockelman states that Jefferson City is full of posturing, puffery, and pomposity.

    "You can tell the 2010 election cycle is just around the corner," said Bockelman. "Because several of our elected officials are positioning themselves as pious guards of the status quo."

    On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate Rules Committee took up a resolution for keeping the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT).

BY: PHILIP DEITCH - VITAL VOICE CORRESPONDENT

    The 22-annual Creating Change Conference was held February 3-7 sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.　This　is the largest　annual LGBT conference in the country attracting approximately 2,500 persons and was held this year in Dallas.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - For the first time in Olympic History there will be an openly gay pavilion that is public about homophobia in sports and in society in general. Other Olympic destinations have had gay bars or in some cases a gay chill space at one of the live sites as seen in Atlanta, but nothing to this scale and organizers are honored to be part of history in the making.

    ST. LOUIS - The upcoming Congressional elections will have a huge impact on issues of importance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as a whole. Join the LGBT community for an important fundraiser in honor of Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-MO-3rd) this coming Monday, February 15, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Ernie’s 32 (in The Grove at 4199 Manchester). Suggested donation amounts are $1,000 for Hosts, $500 for Sponsors, $250 and $100 If you would like to RSVP or for more information, contact Tiffany Reynolds at 314-534-2004.

    NEW YORK, NY - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Administration on Aging have awarded Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) a three-year, $900,000 grant to create the nation’s only national resource center on LGBT aging. The National Technical Assistance Resource Center for LGBT Elders will assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older LGBT people.