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RGOD2: Is LGBT equality a development issue? 04.19.2013
(Editor’s note: As the World Bank announces a landmark research project on the economic costs of homophobia, the Rev. Canon Albert Ogle reflects on what it feels like to be on the first-ever LGBT panel at the world Bank’s Spring Civil Society meetings ...
RGOD2: How your taxes are killing LGBT people 04.12.2013
Taxes and death may be the two inevitable American inescapable outcomes, but how are my taxes causing death to thousands of LGBT people around the world and how can I prevent these deaths? I am in Washington, D.C. preparing for a panel discussion sp ...
RGOD2: Finding kindred spirits with straight allies in the faith community 09.21.2012
When I spoke at Good Shepherd parish in Silver Spring, Md., about the plight of LGBT people internationally, it was April 14, 2012, the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Here was an average suburban Washington, D.C. congregation who had no conn ...
Stunning turnaround on LGBT rights in Malawi? 05.18.2012
LILONGWE, Malawi -- The new president of Malawi says she wants to overturn her nation's homophobic laws that make it a crime to be LGBT. Joyce Banda, who took over the presidency last month after the death of the homophobic leader Bingu wa Mutharika ...
Faith leaders battle homophobia in Africa 12.22.2011
... gay rights, she might have been speaking of the Rev. MacDonald Sembereka who was in the audience listening. ...
SDGLN exclusive: Why Dominionism is a threat to LGBT people everywhere 10.19.2011
(Editor’s note: This is the third part in a series on “Compass to Compassion – Discovering a Common Way to LGBT Global Equality,” a consultation about finding ways to decriminalize homosexuality across the world and to bring equality and dignity to LG ...
Compass to Compassion: Local editor to participate in global LGBT equality conference in NYC 10.10.2011
NEW YORK – This week close to a hundred LGBT activists, members of the LGBT media and a group of progressive, liberal faith leaders and secular officials will gather in New York City to address LGBT rights on a global scale. Dubbed “Compass to Compa ...
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