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Alternative Schools for GLBT Youth Proposed

2010-07-02
Leaders within several major metropolitan communities have been tossing around the idea of opening an alternative high school that would provide a safe learning environment for students that identify as gay, lesbian, ..... Faith-based organizations are eligible to participate in federally administered social service programs to the same degree as any other group, although certain restrictions on FBOs that accept government funding have been created by the White House to ...

LGBT and Allied Groups Call on Congress to Pass ENDA Now « endaNOW

2010-04-21
Triangle Community Center, Norwalk, CT, Christopher J. Spiegelman, Board President Triangle Foundation/Michigan Equality, Alicia Skillman, Executive Director Tucson GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Sheldon Fishman, President Unid@s – National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Human Rights Organization, Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Acting Director UNITE HERE International Union, John Wilhelm, President United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries, Rev. ...

LGBT and Allied Groups Call on Congress to Pass ENDA Now « NCLR ...

2010-04-21
(Washington, DC, April 21) — Today, the nation's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations, along with allies in the faith, labor and civil rights communities, issued the following statement to members of the United States .... Triangle Community Center, Norwalk, CT, Christopher J. Spiegelman, Board President Triangle Foundation/Michigan Equality, Alicia Skillman, Executive Director Tucson GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Sheldon Fishman, President ...

Lutherans Concerned: LC/NA joins LGBT and Allied Groups Calling on ...

2010-04-23
LC/NA joins LGBT and Allied Groups Calling on Congress to Pass ENDA Now. Today, Lutherans Concerned joined the nation's other leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations, along with allies in the faith, labor and civil rights .... Triangle Community Center, Norwalk, CT, Christopher J. Spiegelman, Board President Triangle Foundation/Michigan Equality, Alicia Skillman, Executive Director Tucson GLBT Chamber of Commerce, Sheldon Fishman, President ...

LGBT in Mass by Madeline Burrows | Eat This

2010-07-05
In 38 states, it's legal to fire or not hire someone because they're transgender, and in 29 states if they're gay, lesbian or bisexual. Every day, millions of LGBT workers face a choice: remain in the closet on the job, ... In 1977 Coors beer was leading union busting in Colorado in tandem to funding the new right, a source of aggression against LGBT, and women's rights organizations. Harvey Milk and his supporters joined the Teamsters in a boycott against the beer–Coors ...