News Source: USA Today
| about 1 month ago
Thousands of gay and lesbian activists marched on Washington Sunday, the first step in a national effort to grant gays and lesbians equal rights on everything from marriage to serving in the military. Participants took to the streets, demanding that...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Speaking on Saturday at an annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, America’s biggest gay advocacy group, the President renewed a promise to overturn a Clinton-era law requiring gays to keep their sexual orientation secret when serving in the...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
The protest is taking place a day after President Barack Obama said he would repeal a ban on gay people serving openly in the military. The marchers in Washington are also calling for the speedy removal of legal restrictions on same-sex partnerships.
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Thousands of gays and lesbians claimed the streets of the nation's capital Sunday in a demonstration for full equality under the law. The "National Equality March" snaked past the White House and streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol.
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
Thousands of gay and lesbian activists marched Sunday from the White House to the Capitol, demanding that President Barack Obama keep his promises to allow gays to serve openly in the military and allow same-sex marriages. Rainbow flags and homemade...
News Source: Truthdig
| about 1 month ago
President Obama echoed many of the claims he made on the campaign trail at a Human Rights Campaign gala Saturday, promising to end “don’t ask, don’t tell,” “full [legal] equality” for gays, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, and...