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For India's gay community, the joy that greeted this month's court ruling legalising gay sex is tempered by the fact that, although the law now accepts them, society still does not.
Even students have the right to a clean restroom, at least according to some at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Redwood City. When the students led the task themselves, they joined a growing youth rights movement in San Mateo County.
VERMILLION — After receiving input from nearly 20 members of the community and a letter from Sioux Falls-based Equality South Dakota, the Vermillion School Board agreed recently to change the school district’s non-discrimination policy to include the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity.
On July 7, the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective opened Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women (29 West Hastings Street) in the Downtown Eastside.
Tan Sri Lin See-Yan forwards the poser of how people educated in some of the finest and smartest global universities are responsible for some of the financial problems since 2000.
The first time she walked into my office in Princeton University's Dickinson Hall, Sonia Sotomayor was holding a paper she'd written for my Contemporary Latin America course. It was marked up with my corrections in red ink. Spanish was her first language, and many of her errors reflected its syntax. Where she had written "dictatorship of authority," I had scribbled "authoritarian dictatorship."
Comic-Con International is little more than a week away, and as many as 100,000 fans from around the world are gearing up to spend four days in Southern California, soaking up comics-related culture, which now extends from the familiar 32-page superhero "...
IN reply to a question on how long it will take to process a citizenship application, the short answer on the Home Ministry's website is that it will take a "long period of time" because it had to be "processed completely" by the National Registration Department, "studied in detail" and "vetted" by the ministry, before being "forwarded" to the minister for his "consideration".
The new airport prescreening regulations that are set to go into effect by March will require travelers to provide their full legal names, birthdays and genders when they buy their tickets.
Another round in the battle over gay and lesbian employment rights is set to come to Metro Nashville in coming months. It's certain to strike reminders of the contentious three-month-long political melee in 2003 that ultimately failed to extend employment protections based on sexual orientation.
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