MONDAY KICKSTARTER: Cher Turns Down Olympics Performance, Dodgers to Host First LGBT Night and More
Rounding up the weekend's LGBT headlines.
PROGRESS REPORT
- USAF lesbian couple first to receive ‘Joint Spouse’ assignment
- Idaho Falls City Council approves partial protections for LGBT citizens
- Sedona, Ariz. considering local ordinance on civil unions
HEADLINE MAKERS
- Controversial new book attempts to re-write the history of Matthew Shepard’s life and death
- Ex-NFL QB Steve Young to speak at Mormon conference on LGBT acceptance
BIGOT WATCH
- Conservatives plan ballot initiative to fight California’s new transgender law
- New Mexico wedding photographer who refused service to gay couples is taking case to Supreme Court
INTERNATIONAL
- Nigerian student claims he’s found scientific proof gay marriage is wrong
- Mexico’s first openly gay mayor says he doesn’t support same-sex marriage
- Turkey could be getting its first gay mayor
- Russia reluctantly amends Olympic truce to appease UN on gays
- Prominent Russian lawyer comes out as trans
- Ireland launches attack on anti-gay bullying
- Romania’s first televised same-sex wedding gets high ratings
CELEB BLABBER
- Los Angeles Dodgers to host first-annual LGBT Night Out
- Milk producer working on trans TV drama
- Rupaul returns as the face of Mac Viva Glam
- Cher turns down opportunity to perform at Sochi Olympics because of Russia’s anti-gay law
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