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A new airline out of Thailand is hiring transgender flight attendants, promoting equality. Thailand has one of the largest populations of transgender citizens in the world… According to The Telegraph today , a brand-new airline out of Thailand hopes to promote equal opportunities for Thailand’s “third sex” by hiring three ladyboys among their first […]
New Williams Institute Study Finds Marriage for Same Sex Couples in Rhode Island Would Boost State Budget by Over $1 million Media Contact: M.V. Lee Badgett, LOS ANGELES – A new research study released today by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law shows that allowing same-sex couples to marry in Rhode Island
Bill O’Reilly just doesn’t know how to back off of a blunder. During an interview with David Silverman, president of the American Atheist Group, O’Reilly proclaimed the mystery of ocean tides to help explain the existence of God. According to O’Reilly, no one knows why the tides go in and out, so it must be
Renato Seabra, the male model who is accused of violently killing a male celebrity television journalist he was vacationing with, 65 year old Carlos Castro, has been arraigned in a Manhattan court. Seabra, 21, admitted to brutally attacking him for more than an hour – castrating him with a corkscrew, stabbing him in the face,
A category 5 cyclone, rivaling the strength of hurricane Katrina, is set to hit Australia by this Thursday. Although predictions are that the cyclone may be downgraded to a category 3 after it hits land, after the recent flooding devastation in Australia, damage could be substantial to already ravaged country. READ MORE HERE
The controversy over the restaurant chain Chick-fil-A continues. It all started when one ofthe restaurants donated food to an anti-gay, pro-traditional marriage group about a monthago. The CEO of the company made a video explaining that they donate to all sorts of groupsand they don’t necessarily check out all the details or agendas of the
A gay couple who were refused when trying to rent a room at a bed and breakfast in southern England have sued and won their case. There was a media uproar after Martyn Hall and his partner Steven Preddy were turned away from Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion, in southwestern England, in 2008. Husband and
While authorities in Minnesota will not release the nature of the emergency call that took them to the Lundsten home over the weekend, the fact remains that 18 year old Lance Lundsten has died, and authorities have confirmed it is apparently a suicide. His friends say he was bullied at school and they suspect
Anderson Cooper’s CNN show, AC360 will air an hour long episode tonight, Friday, January 14th, regarding the current state of AIDS. Watch "Hope Survives: 30 Years of AIDS," an AC360° special, at 9 p.m. ET Friday. Phill Wilson is the president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, a national HIV/AIDS think tank focused
