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February 22, 2013
Why we need LGBT allies at work and how to use them

Gay business guru and Out on the Street founder Todd Sears explains the power of LGBT workplace allies

Allies are a critical piece of the puzzle in the fight for LGBT workplace equality.

It is a testament to the evolution of allyship in the workplace that the casual uttering of anti-gay views completely unacceptable in today’s corporate culture. It is almost impossible to imagine a gay slur being said in the majority of US, Canadian or European companies today.

January 2, 2013
Second Uganda gay youth worker arrested for ‘recruiting’ teens into homosexuality

Ugandan police arrest a second LGBT advocate and youth worker for law on homosexuality that doesn't exist 

Kabuye Najibu, of the LGBT group Youth on Rock Foundation, was arrested in Uganda today while visiting his co-worker who had been arrested on New Year’s Eve.

Najibu has been arrested on charges which relate to homosexuality, and could possibly include the unfounded allegation of ‘recruitment into homosexuality’, which does not exist under Ugandan law.

October 20, 2012
Anti-gay campaigners using deaf woman’s story against her will

A suspended diversity officer at a Maryland university for the deaf has asked anti-same-sex marriage campaigners in the state to stop using her story but they have refused

A deaf woman who was suspended from being a university diversity officer after signing a petition against same-sex marriage has asked opponents in her home state of Maryland to stop using her story in campaign ads, saying they misrepresent what she believes.

October 12, 2012
US anti-equality campaigners say no room for compromise

Anti-gay forces have seized on the suspension of a deaf university diversity officer over her opposition to same-sex marriage to say that there is no room for compromise on the issue

American anti-LGBT rights group the American Family Association has declared that there is no room for dialogue or finding a ‘middle ground’ with LGBT rights campaigners following the suspension of a deaf university diversity officer that US LGBT rights advocates already say they want reinstated.

September 4, 2012
Dear Abby has advice for closeted gay employee being pressured to date female

Iconic advice columnist points out that it's sexual harassment and a hostile work environment

The advice columnist known as Dear Abby is getting praise for pointing out to a closeted gay man being pressured to date a female co-worker that he is a victim of sexual harassment and is working in a hostile work environment.

Columnist Abigail Van Buren is really Jeanne Phillips who several years ago took over for the column's founder, her mother Pauline Phillips. The column is the most widely syndicated in the world.

April 21, 2012
Mormon parents tell gay kids 'it gets better'

New It Gets Better video confronts The Church of the Latter-day Saints' strict disapproval of homosexuality

Mormon parents have come out to tell their gay children ‘it gets better’ in a new video that confronts The Church of Latter-day Saints’ strict disapproval of homosexuality.

The It Gets Better video was released today (21 April) as part of a national conference for gay Mormons in Washington D.C, USA.

In the video the parents share their experiences of struggling with their faith when their children told them they were gay, and how they came to love them for who they are.