Harvey Milk Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Washington, DC – Jennifer Vanesco of 365gay.com reports that Harvey Milk, slain San Francisco City Supervisor, will be among 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on August 12, according...
View ArticleHope for 2010: A New Year’s Special Comment
As the old year passes, and with it the old decade, those of us who believe in Justice for LGBTQ people have memories to preserve, work to do, thanks to express, and hope to rekindle. The Unfinished...
View ArticleThreatening Postcards to Gay Profs Ignite Investigations
Images on hate mail sent to gay professor, John Koster photo for North County Times San Marcos, CA – Authorities for the county, state, and federal governments launched a co-ordinated investigation...
View ArticleDallas Marches to Remember Stonewall
Dallas, TX – Hundreds rallied and marched through the skyscraper canyons of Dallas Sunday night to remember the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, and to fight for human rights. The Stonewall Rebellion 41st...
View ArticleHistoric Decision in San Francisco Overturns Prop 8!
l to r: Ted Olson and David Boies San Francisco, CA – in a landmark decision, Judge Vaughn Walker of the federal bench handed down a keenly anticipated decision yesterday ruling Proposition 8, the 2008...
View ArticleCourageous Carolina Faith Leaders Oppose Anti-Gay Bigotry
North Carolina Faith Leaders Speak Out Raleigh, North Carolina – Outside the State Legislature on May 17th, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ right wing activists pushed their discriminatory agenda–but inside...
View ArticleTexans of Faith Storm U.S. Capitol for Human Rights
Washington, D.C. – The largest delegation of fair-minded Texas faith leaders since the conception of LGBT rights are on their way to the Nation’s Capitol to participate in the third Human Rights...
View ArticleHate Murder Victim Charlie Howard’s Memorial Desecrated, Rededicated
Charlie Howard Memorial desecration, prior to refurbishment Bangor, Maine – Two weeks ago, unknown vandals spray-painted “Die Fag” on a memorial to hate crime murder victim Charles O. “Charlie” Howard....
View ArticleGay Center Vandalized at NC State University
Technician photo of hate attack on NC State LGBT Center Raleigh, North Carolina – A perp with an anti-gay agenda vandalized the North Carolina State University GLBT Center on Monday. Though the...
View ArticleCelebrate Lesbian Pioneer, Phyllis Lyon!
Phyllis Lyon, hero of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement Today is Phyllis Lyon’s 87th birthday, and we at the Unfinished Lives Project pause to celebrate her life and work as a pioneer of the LGBTQ Civil...
View ArticleGay Couple That Changed the World: John Lawrence and Tyrone Garner Remembered
Tyrone Garner (l) and John Lawrence celebrate Lawrence v. Texas. Houston, Texas – Lawrence v. Texas, set in motion by a couple of accidental gay activists, broke the back of anti-sodomy laws in the...
View ArticleDOMA Discrimination Against Lesbian Army Veteran Challenged in Court
Tracey Cooper-Harris, highly decorated Army veteran, denied spousal benefits because she is lesbian Los Angeles, California – A highly decorated lesbian veteran of the U.S. Army is being denied...
View ArticleCameron: “Homosexuality is unnatural”— This is why we must continue to fight...
CNN – Kirk Cameron, ’80s teen idol, tells America that same-sex love is “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive to the foundations of civilization.” Cameron, one time star of TV sitcom, “Growing...
View ArticleDallas Gay Community Rallies for Marriage Equality
Senior Pastor of Cathedral of Hope Dallas, Dr. Jo Hudson and GET EQUAL Texas Regional Director, Daniel Cates speak out for human rights and marriage equality (Dallas Voice photo). Dallas, Texas – A...
View ArticleSusan Sarandon is Trevor Project’s 2012 Hero Award Winner
Susan Sarandon, The Trevor Project’s 2012 Hero Award honoree [New York Daily News photo].New York, New York – Oscar winning actress, Susan Sarandon will be honored by The Trevor Project as their 2012...
View ArticleSearching for LGBTQ Justice this Christmas 2012
“Magi,” J.C. Leyendecker, 1900. “We three kings of Orient are Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star. “O star of wonder, star of night, Star with...
View ArticleGay and Baptist: How an Oxymoron May Save the Church Yet
The Rev. Maurice “Bojangles” Blanchard, Baptist minister arrested for attempting to marry his spouse in Kentucky [USAToday image]Louisville, Kentucky – An ordained gay Baptist preacher and his life...
View ArticleBreaking News: Unfinished Lives Project Founder Becomes Official Huffington...
Dr. Stephen V. Sprinkle now blogs for Huffington Post (Keith Tew photo). Dallas, Texas – The founder and director of the Unfinished Lives Project, Dr. Stephen V. Sprinkle, has been officially accepted...
View ArticleSavage Anti-Gay Murder in NYC Highlights Increasing Danger for LGBT People
Mark Carson, 32, openly gay NYC man fatally shot in the face (Gay Star News photo). New York City, New York – A gay man shot to death at point blank range early Saturday morning became the fifth...
View ArticleFrench Homophobia Skyrockets 78%; Forces Reassessment of LGBTQ “Progress”
Paris victim Wilfred de Bruijn, “the face of homophobia in France,” and French anti-gay marriage protestors. Paris, France – The number of documented homophobic attacks is ballooning out of control,...
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