Category Archives: Equal Rights

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By PFLAG Boulder County | June 23, 2009

From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.
The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be [...]

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NY exhibit on gay rights hits amid marriage debate

By PFLAG Boulder County | June 7, 2009

From Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As exhibitions go, the New York Public Library’s “1969: The Year of Gay Liberation” could hardly have chosen better timing.
With debate raging over same-sex marriage across the United States, the library in midtown Manhattan opened the exhibit on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the so-called Stonewall riots that [...]

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Both Sides Await Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage in California

By PFLAG Boulder County | May 25, 2009

From the New York Times: 
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than 30 years together, Brent Lok and Wade French have accumulated more than a few possessions, including a hilltop home, an impressive collection of Asian art and, alongside their diplomas, vacation photos and family portraits, a framed marriage license, dated June 17, 2008.

Wade French and Brent [...]

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La Cage aux Democrats – Obama and Gay Rights

By PFLAG Boulder County | May 24, 2009

Frank Rich, from the New York Times:
THE most potent word in our new president’s lexicon — change — has been heard much less since his inspiring campaign gave way to the hard realities of governing. But on Tuesday night, the irresistible Obama brand made an unexpected and pointed cameo appearance on America’s most popular television [...]

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Dan Gurley, From RNC Staffer to LGBT Activist : NPR

By PFLAG Boulder County | May 6, 2009

From NPR and WHYY in Philadelphia:
 Dan Gurley, a former field director for the Republican National Committee, oversaw anti-gay campaigns for the RNC. He has since been the subject of an “outing” campaign, and he appears in Kirby Dick’s new film Outrage.
Gurley now works for Equality North Carolina, a statewide group dedicated to securing equal rights and justice [...]

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Kirby Dick’s ‘Outrage’ – In The Political Closet, Dark Shadows Lurk : NPR

By PFLAG Boulder County | May 6, 2009

From NPR and WHYY in Philadelphia:
In his new film Outrage, Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) turns his camera on some of the nation’s most powerful policymakers — politicians, in both legislatures and executive suites, who live what some say are closeted gay lives while chalking up what activists describe as [...]

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