Posts Tagged ‘GLAAD’
Pride Conversations: A Q&A with Ross Murray of GLAAD
Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations. These brief Q&As are designed to help…
Read MoreExodus International Apologizes For Harm To LGBT Community
The leadership of Exodus International has announced that they are shutting their doors after 3 decades of practicing so-called ‘ex-gay’ ministry. According to a statement on the group’s web site, the board of directors was finding ‘ex-gay’ work more and more difficult, given their anti-gay words and actions. “Exodus is an institution in the conservative Christian world, but…
Read MoreChurch Of England Abandons Fight Against Marriage Equality
The Church of England has issued a statement officially declaring that they will no longer work to obstruct the passage of the marriage equality bill that is currently going through Parliament. Though the Church of England will not support the bill in its current form, sentiments from Church leaders on the matter are ambiguous. On Monday, the Archbishop…
Read MoreWho Gets To Claim Faith In The Boy Scouts Debate?
In the weeks leading up to the Boy Scouts of America’s vote on dropping the anti-gay ban, communities of faith are speaking out. The problem for the media covering this is that faith communities are not saying the same thing. Who gets to represent the voice of faith when talking about the Boy Scouts proposed…
Read MoreCatholic School Teacher Outed In Mother’s Obituary and Fired, Students Rally Support
Carla Hale was fired from her job as a physical education teacher at Bishop Watterson High School, a private Catholic school in Columbus, Ohio for being gay. She was not out to her students, but when her mother died, her partner, Julie, was listed as her spouse in the obituary. That was enough to have her…
Read MoreGay Man Rebuffed By Bishop Launches Petition For Dinner and Dialog With Roman Catholic Hierarchy
Nicholas Coppola, the Catholic man stripped of all volunteer duties after he married his husband, has launched a Change.org petition, inviting Cardinal Timothy Dolan to dinner and conversation about the relationship between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and LGBT people. Nicholas launched the Change.org petition after delivering over 18,000 signatures collected through Faithful America to the Diocese of Rockville Center,…
Read More2012’s GLAAD Awards Recognizes Faith Leaders
Everything from the Academy Award nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague to an episode of the reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is recognized in the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award’s celebration of outstanding representations of the LGBT community in film, TV, and the news. This year’s awards also…
Read MoreBishop Targeted For LGBT Inclusion In The United Methodist Church
Bishop Melvin Talbert works for full LGBT inclusion in the United Methodist Church
Read MoreBeing Christian And Welcoming
Via GLAAD In light of Chick-Fil-A COO Dan Cathy’s statement that his opposition to marriage equality is rooted in his belief in the “biblical definition of the family unit,” GLAAD would like to point to the many Christians who understand that the “biblical” definition of family is not limited to husband, wife, and children, and…
Read MorePriest Tells MN Catholics They Can Vote Against Banning Marriage Equality
By GLAAD Nearly 30,000 people (and rising) have now watched Roman Catholic Priest Bob Pierson tell Minnesota Catholics why their faith can advise them to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban marriage equality – despite what other Catholic leaders in the state are saying. Father Bob Pierson has been an ordained priest for…
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