USF will offer transgender dorm rooms
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- Published on Saturday, 09 July 2011 17:52
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New students at the University of South Florida now have three boxes to check when filling out forms for housing. The university plans to offer transgender dormitory rooms for students who are transitioning from one gender to another. The plan will let students be housed with students of a different gender or be housed privately in a single room, according to WNEM.com
Indian Minister of Health tells HIV conference homosexuality is a disease
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 20:24
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(Correction: This article originally reported that it was the Prime Minister. It was the Minister of Health that made this statement).
The law banning act of intercourse between two men was overturned by the Indian Supreme Court in 2009. Although men who have sex with men remain a high risk group for HIV, India's health minister recently called homosexuality a rapidly spreading disease. Ghulum Nhabi Azad made his remarks before an HIV/AIDS conference, according to LGBTQNation.
“Even though it [homosexuality] is unnatural, it exists in our country and is now fast spreading, making it tough to detect it,” Azad said before the conference. Azad is the minister of health for a country where over 2 million people have HIV. The majority of these two million people are heterosexual.
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Presbyterian Church will allow ordination of LGBT members
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- Published on Friday, 01 July 2011 19:16
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The Presbyterian Church announced that it will allow openly gay members to serve as clergy in the church, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The bill did not move quickly through the churchs membership. The debate about the orgination of LBT clergy took place over 33 years. A final vote of the presbyteries was held in May of 2011. The General Assembly ratified the wording that would allow the orination of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender members in 2010.
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Preacher files charges against gay rights activist for unwanted kiss during a Pride Parade
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- Published on Saturday, 02 July 2011 17:13
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James Edward Belcher, a baptist minister from Taylorsville, North Carolina was not expecting to receive a kiss from Joan Parker. Parker, who was marching in the citys Gay Pride Parade, said she felt like the minister needed a hug when she saw him along the parade right.
Belcher was protesting the parade when Parker saw him waving a bible with his arms in the air. She turned to the preacher to give him a hug and delivered a kiss on the cheek. Belcher claims that Parker intended to kiss him on the mouth and would have done so if he had not turned his head in time.
Rhode Island legalizes civil unions for same sex couples
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- Published on Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:22
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On the heels of last weeks approval of same sex marriage in New York, Rhode Island legalized civil unions for same sex couples. The proposal grants legal protections to same sex couples, but "without the historical and religious meaning associated with the word marriage", said a statement from the Rhode Island General Assembly.
"I am very proud of my colleagues in the General Assembly for recognizing that this is the right piece of legislation at the right time", said Petrarca, who supports same sex marriage.
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