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Council Bluffs apartment company to pay $147K after discriminating against gay couple (DM Register)

An apartment complex’s management company will have to pay $147,000 to two gay men after a Council Bluffs jury found the couple had been discriminated against by an on-site maintenance man and others who failed to stop the harassment.

Lesbian/Bisexual Women's Focus Group

Women's Focus Group-What Do You Know?

We want to know what you think about healthcare in Iowa!

This Lesbian/Bisexual Women's Focus Group will have an opportunity to share perceptions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes.

Minnesota Senate approves marriage equality

ST. PAUL — Minnesota senate has passed a bill that would legalize gay marriage in the state with 37 votes in favor and 30 votes against.

Black LGB Survey

My name is Skyler and I am a doctoral student researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland-College Park. I am a part of a team of researchers conducting a study investigating the everyday experiences of Black lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people. We are currently in search of Black LGB people to participate in a weeklong, cutting-edge study that investigates how daily experiences impact their well-being.

Big Bad Gina New CD

We're making progress daily. Thank you everyone! It means a great deal that you are excited about this new CD and helping to make it happen. We are done recording all our tracks and are making notes and final touches for editing. On with the artwork and layout and then it's manufacturing time.

Tylan (from Girlyman)

After five studio albums and 10 years on the road with acclaimed folk-pop quartet Girlyman, Tylan returns to her roots with her debut solo, One True Thing. Tylan Greenstein dropped her guard, as well as last name, for the new solo venture.

Whisperinandhollerin.com says the new songs “evoke names like Janis Ian and Willie Nelson, emotional outsiders with their hearts on their sleeves. Folksy Americana and urban literacy sit comfortably together in [her] songs.”

Minnesota House advances marriage equality bill poised to become law (MetroWeekly)

Minnesota took a step closer to becoming the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage today. Just months after Minnesota voters rejected an amendment to the state’s constitution that would have banned same-sex marriage, the state’s House of Representatives voted 75-59 in favor of a same-sex marriage bill today.

Clerk says she was fired for views on justices; Republican lawmaker says that’s not true (DesMoinesRegister)

Saturday, 05 February 2011 17:57 Other News Sources

A Statehouse clerk for a Republican lawmaker says she was fired after posting Facebook messages about keeping politics out of the judicial system, according to the Iowa State Daily student newspaper.

Virtual panel discussion tackles HIV criminalization

Friday, 04 February 2011 19:47 Other News Sources

Some of the world's top experts on the issue of HIV criminalization will participate in an online panel discussion Monday Feb. 7 from 12 p.m. to 1
p.m. EST.

The panel discussion will feature Sean Strub, the founding publisher of POZ magazine and senior advisor to the Center for HIV Law and Policy, Edwin Bernard, an author who has written extensively about the issue and runs the blog HIV Criminal Transmission; and Vanessa Johnson, an attorney and executive vice president of the National Association of People with AIDS. Catherine Hanssens, the executive director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy in New York City may also participate in the panel discussion.

Last Updated on Friday, 04 February 2011 21:04 Read more...

Zach Wahls Speech On Being Raised By Gay Couple Goes Viral (KCRG)

Thursday, 03 February 2011 22:12 Other News Sources

Earlier this week, the Iowa House passed a resolution 6 that calls for a referendum on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage

Democrats have since vowed to block it in the Iowa Senate.