US troops take part in LGBT Pride Month reception at US Embassy in Tokyo
Repost from Stars and Stripes TOKYO — Master Sgt. Marc Maschhoff revels in the turns his life has taken in the last year. Last summer, Maschhoff had to…
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Honduras is test of new U.S. policy on gay rights
Repost from the Miami Herald by Tim Johnson SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — From U.N. chambers to the halls of the State Department, global pressure on countries to protect…
Read moreUnited States Issues UN Report on Its Own Human Rights Conditions
On December 30, the United States submitted its fourth periodic report to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which…
Read moreReflections on Frank Kameny’s Impact
By Amb. (ret.) Michael Guest, Senior Advisor, The Council for Global Equality Word of Frank Kameny’s death yesterday at age 86 seeped in slowly – less thunderbolt than…
Read moreThe Global Gay Rights Battlefields
In an article by Max Strasser in the December 20, 2010 issue of Foreign Policy Magazine the author highlights the LGBT rights battles taking shape in countries has…
Read morePresidential Proclamation–Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
The White House as issued a proclamation commemorating June as LGBT Pride Month. Read the full proclamation here
Read moreThe International and the Domestic – Where the Worlds Come Together
So much of social justice work occurs in single-issue silos. Even within our own LGBT “single issue,” domestic issues in the United States and the LGBT struggles in…
Read moreThe Council for Global Equality and HRC submit report to United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
As posted on HRC Action. April 23, 2010 Earlier this week, HRC, as a member of the Council for Global Equality, submitted a report to the United Nations…
Read moreGen. Sheehan to Former Dutch Defense chief of staff Gen. Henk Van den Breemen
Read a letter from Gen. Sheehan to Former Dutch Defense chief of staff Gen. Henk Van den Breemen, who was supposedly Sheehan’s source of information, apologizing for his…
Read moreAn unfair attack on gay troops – latimes.com
The massacre at Srebrenica was a tragedy, but the Dutch army’s policy allowing gays in the military had nothing to do with it. by Boris Dittrich Published in:…
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