All Blog Posts Tagged 'LGBT' (73)

One of the greatest gifts that you can give your family and yourself are Advance Directives -- especially a Living Will and Medical Power of Attorney.  



These documents permit you to affirm your wishes as to who will make medical decisions for you when you are not able and what type and degree of medical treatment, if any, you wish to have administered at the end of your life.



Advance Directives guide your medical care and treatment in two ways:



1.         Naming…

For the full transcripts: 

http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/workplace/testimony-s811-061212/ 

SUMMARY:

In official testimony delivered today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Williams Institute…

This community is significantly larger than the 4% recorded by the census.

The census barely counts any of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) USA population.

We make a huge political difference in elections and fund raising  for both major parties.

All we ask is respect both us and our families.…

On Veterans Day, it’s a time to give thanks especially to those veterans that are ignored due to discrimination.

Since our community is often under counted it is a conservative estimate that at least 10-20% or 2.3 - 4.6 million veterans are Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) people. All have served this nation well and have received little to no credit for their vast contributions to national value.

We are eternally grateful for their service to our country…

Please go to this…

As Labor Day approaches, DOD FED GLOBE is taking this opportunity to thank all of you

 for your hard work as equality activism volunteers.

Your contributions that are essential to our…

For well over a year now I've been posting blogs about my battle with the VA to recognize my wife as my same sex spouse.  I filed my first claim in June 2010.  It was denied and I filed an appeal asking for a DRO Review. 

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The oppression of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) is uncommon.

This is because unlike other oppressed groups we are taught in childhood by those that have the greatest influence…

The oppression of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) is uncommon.

This is because unlike other oppressed groups we are taught in childhood by those that have the greatest influence…

Yes once again in the USA people are competing for the job of President. What does this event mean to pro Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) equality activists? This is when our community becomes the target for discriminatory dogmatic diatribe.

Politicians in the USA are not elected to provide religious leadership. In this country we have in the first amendment “…separation between religion and matters of the…

The below message is from Dan Choi.

Its important to not only sign this, but ask others to as well.

DADT victims get a double whammy.

Not only are their lives and careers severely negatively impacted by being fired for being LGBT, but Uncle Sam afterwards demands they give money back for not fulfilling their service time in the…

Respect for Marriage Act is now being supported by the White House.

We welcome this change, but it is not enough of an effort.

It is now time for our…

Once again we the LGBT employees of the Department of Defense (DOD) have been betrayed by both our DOD senior leadership and the Commander and Chief. Its not because any of these people are intentionally mean, but it is because they lack the spine to do what they know are the right things. 

As an important example: the LGBT community was told that the President was going to share the same benefits that Department of State Clinton is sharing for gay couples within her purview…

We've seen it all, but we sincerely hoped that we would not see this President an expert in constitutional law have his Department of Justice (DOJ) for a second time request an "Emergency Stay" on the

Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) injunction.

Please say it isn't so.

Tell us this is a bad dream and that our President is not…

In 1996 then candidate Obama did fill out a form that showed he supported same-gender marriage. Now President Obama appears to be playing politics with our equality, because he mixes religion with matters of the State. While claiming he has not yet evolved to accept marriage equality due to religion.

While Governor Cuomo of NY proactively pursued marriage equality in his state. He successfully worked with both major parties to…

The Navy is riding high these days.  My congrats to Seal Team Six for taking out OBL.  In my opinion, his death is long overdue.  I heard the Seal who fired the kill shot is a married man.  Interesting that the Navy would…

1.       When there was testimony on the hill by Pentagon leadership it was stated that LGBT (they call all of use the H word) is only 2 – 3%. This is inaccurate. The 2000 USA census barely counted any of us and claimed we were 4% of the…

DOD FED GLOBE completely supports the LCR appeal to end the US ban on openly LGB soldiers immediately. LCR filed their brief in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco yesterday. We concur and commend this action!



LCR is absolutely right that it is unconstitutional for Congress to allow the military to keep the ban while it trains troops to deal with the change after lawmakers have…

13 Activists from GetEQUAL were in court Friday.

They were in court for doing what other oppressed people have also done in the past when desperate;

a peaceful tactic civil disobediance.

Had these brave 13 people not done this then rest assured the DADT…