By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what many are calling a backwards step, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to hear challenges to Mississippi’s “License to Discriminate” Law, the court announced Monday Jan. 8, 2018. You will remember last year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has fired the remaining members of the HIV/AIDS council. Not by calling them in to discuss the matter, not by sending an internal memo but by sending each member a pink slip in the mail by way of FedEx. If that wasn't bad enough, [...]
By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — A male pilot from Glasgow, Scotland has been denied a medical certificate so that he could have worked as a commercial airline pilot simply because of his HIV positive status. The man, was garnered fame after Patrick Strudwick at BuzzFeed and then the BBC broke the story. [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C — In a shock to many gay activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Dec. 11, refused to hear the appeal of Jameka Evans, the Georgia security guard who said she was harassed and forced from her employment simply because she is a lesbian. By doing this action, [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer One of the leaders of the anti-Gay movement, Michael Heath, whom you will remember was at one time the head of the Christian Civics League and major opposition leader in the state of Maine opposing equal rights for LGBTQ citizens, made news today as he said he will no longer [...]