World : Top Stories from LGBTQ Nation for 07/28/2014‏

Updates from LGBTQ Nation The Nation's Most Followed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer News Source Own a business, or provide a service? Get listed in our Business / Service Directory. In the 07/28/2014 edition: Fla. man stabbed while having sex with another man in Tallahassee cemetery HRC hires Ark. director to promote LGBT equality in three southern states S.C. to keep defending gay marriage ban despite appeals court ruling N.C. attorney general to drop state’s defense of same-sex marriage ban Key West plaintiffs seek to appeal marriage ruling to Fla. Supreme Court U.S. appeals court rules Va. same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional - Decision could overturn similar prohibitions in the Carolinas, West Virginia Colo. AG asks state’s high court to stop same-sex marriage licenses in Boulder Sweden to resume development aid payments to Uganda Gay children’s home worker fired for ‘lifestyle choices’ Marriage News Watch: State lawyers ignore public support for marriage equality Fla. man stabbed while having sex with another man in Tallahassee cemetery Jul 28, 2014 05:00 pm T ALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a man he was having sex with in a Tallahassee cemetery. Police say Devante L. Johnson, 18, met with the victim at the cemetery around 11 p.m. on June 24th when the stabbing occurred. Read in browser »   HRC hires Ark. director to promote LGBT equality in three southern states Jul 28, 2014 03:00 pm LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A Little Rock native who has worked for several nonprofits will be the first Arkansas director for the nation's largest LGBT civil rights group. The Washington-based Human Rights Campaign announced Monday it had hired Kendra Johnson as its state director as part of its $8.5 million Project One America campaign to promote LGBT equality... Read in browser »   S.C. to keep defending gay marriage ban despite appeals court ruling Jul 28, 2014 01:45 pm COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina will continue to defend itself against a lawsuit over its ban on same-sex marriage despite a decision by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the state that a similar gay marriage ban in Virginia is unconstitutional. Read in browser »   N.C. attorney general to drop state’s defense of same-sex marriage ban Jul 28, 2014 01:35 pm RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s attorney general says prosecutors will drop their opposition to challenges to the state’s same-sex marriage ban in the wake of a federal appeals court decision affecting a similar prohibition in Virginia. Attorney General Roy Cooper said at a news conference Monday that the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means... Read in browser »   Key West plaintiffs seek to appeal marriage ruling to Fla. Supreme Court Jul 28, 2014 12:00 pm MIAMI -- Attorneys for two Key West men challenging the state's ban on same sex marriage want the Florida Supreme Court to take up the case. The lawyers representing the Monroe County couple filed a motion Monday asking that the ... Read in browser »   U.S. appeals court rules Va. same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional - Decision could overturn similar prohibitions in the Carolinas, West Virginia Jul 28, 2014 10:35 am RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a decision that could overturn similar prohibitions in the Carolinas and West Virginia. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond is the second federal appellate court to overturn gay marriage bans, after the Denver circuit, and is the first to affect ... Read in browser »   Colo. AG asks state’s high court to stop same-sex marriage licenses in Boulder Jul 28, 2014 09:30 am DENVER -- Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is trying again to stop Boulder's clerk from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Suthers filed a motion with the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday asking it to order clerk Hillary Hall to stop providing the licenses. Both the Colorado Court of Appeals and a state judge in Boulder have refused his ... Read in browser »   Sweden to resume development aid payments to Uganda Jul 28, 2014 09:00 am Just four months after suspending development aid payments to Uganda over passage of an anti-homosexuality law, the Swedish embassy in Kampala said Monday that Sweden would extend nearly $200 million in development support to Uganda over the next five years. The aid would go to improve child and maternal health, sustainable growth and... Read in browser »   Gay children’s home worker fired for ‘lifestyle choices’ Jul 28, 2014 07:30 am LUBBOCK, Texas — A Texas man has been fired from his job at the Children’s Home of Lubbock for his “lifestyle choices” after introducing kids to his fiancé during a day trip earlier this month. Casey Stegall, an openly gay human development and family studies major at Texas Tech University, says he “got fired just for me being who I am,” reports the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Read in browser »   Marriage News Watch: State lawyers ignore public support for marriage equality Jul 28, 2014 07:00 am The rules have changed yet again this week in Colorado, with new rulings on marriage from multiple courts. New polls show growing support for equality in western states, but multiple Attorneys General have filed new briefs to stop gay and lesbian couples from marrying. And another Republican member of Congress has come out in favor of the freedom to marry... Read in browser »   Recent Articles: Lawmakers want Vikings to give Priefer stiffer penalty for anti-gay remarks For gay soldiers, marriage and benefits open doors to living life more freely Fla. towing company owner charged with illegally towing cars during Gay Days Vote on Houston LGBT anti-bias ordinance still possible California’s ‘Modern Family Act’ aims to bring family law into 21st century Bron : LGBTQ NATION