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Filing your taxes can be a complicated and intimidating process.For many LGBTQ people, the process is made even more unapproachable because tax software and tax preparation companies seldom have a clear understanding of the credits, deductions, and other issues that are most relevant for members of our community.The National LGBTQ Task Force has put together […]
After weeks of paperwork and dealing with the FAA, I have finally been cleared to fly. And just in time, too!By the time you are reading this, I will have already been back in the left seat and in the air. Over the next few months I will be refreshing my Multi- Engine and Instrument
Jim Glaub and Dylan Parker were getting ready to spend their first Christmas living together in their Manhattan apartment on 22nd Street when their mailbox started filling up with letters addressed to Santa Claus — letters that would lead to a global giving movement. Having lived in the Chelsea apartment for nearly three years before
One day after Donald Trump surprised the world by winning the presidency, America’s largest anti-gay organization fired its first salvo — aimed directly at the president-elect. National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown, whose organization lost multiple federal court battles over same-gender marriage in recent years, vowed to renew the fight to repeal landmark Windsor
Nov. 1,2016: Today I sit, wondering, what the hell am I doing? I am feeling a bit deflated and discouraged, and yet I still have some hope that I may yet pull this project together. We have all heard that old saying that it is darkest before the dawn, but there is an-other version that
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On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that the ban on open service of transgender troops will be lifted, five years after a similar ban on the open service of gay men and women was formally ended by President Obama. The end of the ban is effective immediately, Carter said. “Implementation will begin today,”
This 18-minute tribute – directed by Emmy Award-winning Ryan Murphy and Ned Martel, with the support of their colleagues at Ryan Murphy Television – features a diverse cast of 49 actors, directors and other entertainment leaders recounting individual stories of the victims of our nation’s deadliest mass shooting. The 49 heroes who lost their lives
In a groundbreaking statement about homosexuality, Pope Francis says Christians and the Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gay people and others they have offended or treated poorly in the past. “I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied
Today the beige Stetson hats of the National Parks Service (NPS) will start appearing at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, as the site was declared a national monument on Friday. Designated by President Barack Obama, it’s the first of the United States’ 122 national monuments to commemorate the gay rights
