Gay/Lesbian News

As of the beginning of February (2010), all of Ontario (Canada)'s school boards will be required to have policies that ensure they provide positive school environments for students of all races, religions and sexual preferences.

The Catholic school boards are having a difficult time coming to grips with how they can satisfy human rights requirements with regard to sexual orientation and also satisfy Roman Catholic principles.

Editor's comment: in Ontario, Catholic school boards receive tax funding just like public schools do. Did they think they could take tax money and not have to follow provincial regulations regarding how schools are to be run?

The governors of Virginia and Maryland, both Catholics, said Tuesday that it would be wrong for the church to suspend or reduce social services in the nation's capital if the District of Columbia approves gay marriage.

The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario is catching flak over H1N1 vaccinations… not because it is giving them… but because it sent students home with a vaccination consent form that included a line asking if the students, were transgender as well as male and female…

Sault Ste. Marie Catholic School Trustee Kathleen Rosilius has taken issue with the consent forms and questioned the appropriateness of distributing the vaccination consent forms in Catholic schools, telling the conservative LifeSiteNews that the forms are, “agenda-driven, social-engineering.

Proposed law that would impose life imprisonment on homosexuals has the potential to divide leaders at summit Geoffrey York Johannesburg - From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov.

Fresh off trips to Singapore and India, Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday to attend the Commonwealth leaders' summit.

The Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin has released a report that has detailed how the Dublin Archdiocese, other church authorities and Irish government officials covered up clerical child abuse. The Commission findings, released today, followed a parallel report published in May into five decades of rape, beatings and other cruelty committed by Catholic orders of nuns and brothers across Ireland in church-run schools, children’s workhouses and orphanages from the 1930s to mid-1990s.

Thousands of people marched through Puerto Rico's capital on Wednesday, celebrating the life of a gay teenager whose dismembered, burned body was found dumped along a road in a small mountain town.

Norman Reedus, left, and Sean Patrick Flanery are shown in a scene from "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day." Apparition Films Cult classics - like Ed Wood's films and "Showgirls" - are often defined by their flaws as much as their merits.

This Thanksgiving send a message of thanks to Democrats who have lead the fight for LGBT equality in congress.

TAMPA, FLA.a 'Brian Burke can be gruff and macho, belligerent and truculent. He can scowl and snarl with the best of them. In short, he can be quite intimidating.

But the hard-nosed president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs has revealed a much softer, caring side to his personality – that of a loving and supportive father.

And he's garnered widespread praise – from his players and others inside the hockey world – for supporting his son, Brendan, who summoned the courage to tell his father he was gay.

A lawmaker has proposed changing Mexico City's laws to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.

Vallejo's mayor is apologizing for comments he made to The New York Times that gays and lesbians will not go to heaven.

Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two-nation nation on this issue -- now and for years to come.

The most significant thing about the new, anti-gay "Manhattan Declaration" is not that scores of Christians are against gay rights. It's that, recognizing they're on the wrong side of history, they tie themselves in knots insisting they're not anti-gay. And in doing so, they reveal the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their obsessive persecution of gay people.

Lady Gaga has revealed she is more attracted to men than women, despite being bisexual.

Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle want to have the perfect civil union. The problem? Well, in Great Britain, civil unions, or civil partnerships, are restricted to only gay and lesbian couples. As a heterosexual couple, Freeman and Doyle cannot get a civil partnership, but can get married. It is, according to their reasoning, discriminatory.

Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle refused partnership by London council because UK law bans opposite-sex civil unions Press Association guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 24 November 2009 17.32 GMT Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle have been refused a civil partnership.

The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast lost some of its momentum this month.

Adam Lambert's racy American Music Awards performance cost him a gig on "Good Morning America," but he will perform live instead on ABC's morning rivals at CBS.

Geoffrey Calhoun was at the gay bar at the time of the raid and said some officers didn't identify themselves as police.