DAREH GREGORIAN reports in NY Post
A wealthy Upper East Side couple harassed their gay house manager, even making him work out of the room where the family’s pig once lived, court papers charge.
In his Manhattan Supreme Court suit, William Gamble says Lisa Maria Falcone, wife of hedge-fund billionaire Philip Falcone, subjected him to homophobic comments [...]
BY JOSE MARTINEZ
?DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The shapely socialite wife of a billionaire hedge fund titan is accused of piggish barnyard antics in a sex-harassment lawsuit filed by an ex-employee.
Homosexual house manager William Gamble’s suit charges that he was subjected to unwanted advances from pet pig-owning Lisa Maria Falcone, who is married to the man listed as [...]
From today’s New York Times article by William Glaberson
Changing a name might seem like a minor matter for those who are changing their gender identities and, for some, facing challenges like finding knowledgeable doctors, trying hormones and experimenting with painful hair-removal procedures. But many who have gone through the switch say a name change sends [...]
Article from: Agence France-Presse
POPE Benedict XVI has denounced gender theory, warning that it blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the “self-destruction” of the human race.
When the Roman Catholic Church defends God’s Creation, “it does not only defend the earth, water and the air … but (it) also [...]
The night my church opened its 10-bed homeless shelter for 18-to-24-year-olds, I volunteered to supervise them. A novice to any kind of shelter experience, I was nervous as I dragged my red cart with pillow and blanket to the church, and grateful that Mina, an elegant, 70-something social worker, also would be there.
Six young people [...]
An embarrassing question from a boy in a locker room inspired Karen Deamons to fight the city: Why was there a woman in the men’s room?
Deamons decided last month she would no longer abide by Cleveland’s requirement that she change in the men’s locker room at the indoor pool at the city-run Cudell Recreation Center. [...]
‘Learned the degree of pain’ from community
Todd A. Heywood writes for Between The Lines News – Issue 1615
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., told BTL last week that he and his organization stood by their decision to support a non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill on the House floor, but [...]
PageOneQ quotes Whoopi Goldberg on pregnant transgender man
“I found them very sweet and naïve,” veteran anchor Barbara Walters says of the Beatie couple, currently expecting a child. “The greatest threat to them,” Walters adds, “is that their marriage could be taken away.”
Thomas Beatie, a transgender man, recently talked with Oprah Winfrey about his pregnancy. A [...]
Not really strange that Morning Joe found the pregnant transgender man “disgusting”. What is more bothersome is that the anchors were visibly so upset at the news and so absolutely unbelievably shocked that one must cease to wonder why the country is truly headed in wrong direction (81% of Americans believe so, according to latest [...]
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By Lauren Tetenbaum
Last week, New York Governor David Paterson directed all state agencies to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. It’s about time New York made such a stride.
As a native Manhattanite, New York State laws frequently strike me as bizarre. From the race-biased Rockefeller drug [...]