Gay rights activist, PFLAG’s first national president Adele Starr dies at 90
Adele Starr, a Brentwood, Calif., mother of five who overcame dismay at her son’s homosexuality to become a leading voice for gay rights and marriage equality, and eventually the first national...
View ArticlePFLAG opens national conference with keynote address by Dr. Jill Biden
PFLAG opened its bi-annual National Convention on Friday with a keynote address by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, who told the crowd of attendees, "As a teacher and a mom, I...
View ArticleLGBT advocates distribute school flyers to counter anti-gay message by PFOX
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A group of LGBT advocates announced Wednesday they had delivered 50,000 flyers to high school students in Montgomery County, Md., aimed at dispelling myths about what it means to be gay.
View ArticlePFLAG kicks off 40th anniversary with year-long look at fight for LGBT equality
WASHINGTON -- PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the nation's largest grassroots-based non-profit for families, friends, and straight allies of LGBT people on Friday kicked off...
View ArticlePFLAG resource aims to help ‘change the hearts and minds of co-religionists’
My experience with the civil rights movement of the 1960s (yes, I am that old), makes me realize that the civil rights legislation that ultimately became the law of the land for racial, ethnic, and...
View ArticleLongtime LGBT rights champion, former PFLAG president Elinor Lewallen dies
Elinor Lewallen, a longtime champion of equal rights for LGBT people, and President of PFLAG National in the late 1980s, has died, the organization announced Friday. She was 93.
View ArticleAdvocacy groups denounce ‘Dr. Oz’ for debating merits of reparative therapy
Three of the nation's largest LGBT advocacy organizations on Wednesday denounced the syndicated "Dr. Oz" television show for airing an episode debating the merits of so-called reparative therapy, and...
View ArticleJeanne Manford, pioneering LGBT ally, founder of PFLAG, dies at 92
Jeanne Manford, mother of gay rights activist Morty Manford, pioneering straight ally in the gay rights movement, and the founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), died at...
View ArticleObama honors PFLAG founder with Presidential Citizens Medal
Jeanne Manford, the pioneering straight ally in the gay rights movement, and the founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), was honored posthumously with the Presidential...
View ArticlePFLAG chapter in China demands marriage rights for their gay children
GUANGZHOU, China -- A PFLAG chapter in China has sent an open letter to delegates of China’s National People’s Congress demanding marriage equality for their children.
View ArticleAd bureau dismisses complaints against ‘You’re having a lesbian!’ campaign
BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia – The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has rejected complaints against a advertising campaign promoting the message “marriage equality is every family’s...
View ArticleCaribou Coffee apologizes after erasing window art by local gay-straight...
NORTHBROOK, Ill. -- The Caribou Coffee chain is apologizing after a Chicago-area store erased window art completed by a local high school's gay-straight alliance.
View ArticleNew York names Queens street after pioneering gay rights family
NEW YORK -- A street in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens has been named in honor of the founder of PFLAG and her family. Officials have formally designated 171st Street between 33rd and 35th Avenues...
View ArticleStraight for Equality: The evolution in LGBT rights did not happen in a vacuum
The revolution in equality for people who are gay and lesbian did not happen in a vacuum. For every person in the community who bravely came out and fought, there were people outside the LGBT community...
View ArticleGrey’s Anatomy star Sara Ramirez calls out biphobia in ABC’s ‘Real O’Neals’
Ramirez, who is bisexual in real life and on screen as surgeon Callie Torres, said of ABC: "I will invest my brand where I'm respected."
View ArticleAdvocates warn Senators: Gorsuch poses a ‘significant threat’ to our community
"His views are fundamentally at odds with the notion that LGBT people are entitled to equality, liberty, justice and dignity under the law,” say LGBTQ advocates.
View ArticleTrump grants antigay clergy ‘free speech & religious liberty’ protections
The president declared he's directed the Department of Justice to "develop new rules" to ensure religious free speech.
View ArticleGetEQUAL is shutting down & PFLAG may be next
Over the past few years, several national and local LGBTQ organizations have shut their doors after financial difficulties.
View ArticleA social media platform banned gay content. The backlash changed their mind.
Hundreds of thousands used the Chinese platform to protest its ban on gay content.
View ArticleBarbara Bush sent the religious right into orbit in 1990 when she condemned...
Former First Lady Barbara Bush's letter to PFLAG is a reminder the GOP wasn't always so awful.
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