Subway Shows Quick Support for Neutrality, Adds Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to AD Policy

On Monday, Subway, the second-largest fast food chain in the world, repudiated the action of one of its franchise owners who used the corporate name when contributing $2,500 to the campaign that ultimately banned gay marriage in California. Read more

Obama Transition Team Bans Discrimination

The Obama-Biden transition team is telling prospective employees in the new administration it will not discriminate against LGBT workers. Read more

California doctors can’t refuse treatment to gays on religious grounds, court rules

Doctors may not discriminate against gays and lesbians in medical treatment, even if the procedures being sought conflict with physicians’ religious beliefs, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday. Read more

DNC Platform: Where the Gays Stand

The party platform that will be presented to delegates at the Democratic National Convention carefully never mentions the words gay, lesbian or transgendered, yet it’s the most positive LGBT platform in memory. Read more

Oregon: Not out of the anti-gay woods yet

And let me tell you, the anti-gay woods are a very dark and scary place.

So we’ve all heard now that Oregon’s Tennessee’s Arizona’s… Let’s try this again. Ech hem. Read more

BREAKING: Oregon Anti-Gays Admit Possible Failure

After failing on their first attempt to overturn Oregon’s Anti-Discrimination and Domestic Partnership laws, Oregon’s anti-gays (who actually live in Tennessee) have admitted possible failure. More importantly they are claiming a possible failure on IP 146 which is Read more

Oregon Anti-Gays Doomed For Failure

Could it be? Shall we plan celebration parties already? Well not quite yet - but on the heels of Basic Rights Oregon appealing (to the Oregon Supreme Court) the language of two initiatives (IP 144 & IP 145) that would aim to repeal Oregon’s newly enacted Domestic Partnership and Anti-Discrimination laws, and the possibility of the same thing happening to the third filed by anti-gays… they may be up shit creek.

Yesterday we talked about the group “Concerned Oregonians” who actually happens to be led by David Crowe who now resides in Tennessee. Make of that what you will. In any case - their desperate pleas for tens of thousands of dollars, even if answered, would still leave their anti-gay crusade in limbo. And funny enough currently it looks as though they are in debt.

Giving credit where credit is due.
Basic Rights Oregon has proven once again that it will relentlessly fight these initiative attempts to strip families of their basic rights as citizens of this state. Thanks BRO! (ech hem - donate here)

Credit should also be given to everyday Oregonians. Oregonian’s don’t see this as a Measure 36 - and rightly so. They see this simply for what it is, workplace protections against blatant discrimination and as I said above, the ability to legally provide and care for your family.

No victory dance yet folks.
Again, lets not get our hope up too high. But come July when anti-gay forces must turn in over 83,000 valid signatures to qualify and they can’t do it - I’ll be the first cracking open that bottle of bubbly.

Counting down the days.
Just think, each and every day that this bigoted attempt to strip Oregon families and individuals of their basic human rights is delayed, that’s just another day these folks cannot gather signatures.

Related:
Appeal to Oregon Supreme Court Sparks Delay in Anti-Gay Plans

Appeal to Oregon Supreme Court Sparks Delay in Anti-Gay Plans

Basic Rights Oregon delivered today. They’re taking the fight to the Oregon Supreme Court. Just Out is reporting that BRO may in fact be holding up the anti-gay initiatives by appealing to the OSC. Read more

Detroit City Council Votes to Ban Trans Discrimination

After 17 years of trying, Detroit has become the latest city to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity. City council voted 8-1 to amend the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance which already bars discrimination against lesbians and gays.

City Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. said, “The practices and policies of the City of Detroit should promote a public confidence in the fairness and equal treatment of any and all human beings.”

via 365gay