GLSEN Reports on Elementary School LGBT Climate

A new report conducted by the nation’s leading LGBT youth advocacy group has found that anti-gay bullying and harassment is fairly common during the early years of elementary school.

SLDN Toolkit Helps DADT Dischargees Fix Paperwork

A gay servicemembers advocacy group is launching a new online toolkit that will help LGBT veterans change their discharge paperwork.

Study: LGBT People Suffer Severe Income Inequality

A campaign seeking to reduce poverty by half over the next decade has found that LGBT people suffer severe income inequality compared to their straight counterparts.

PREVIEW: OutQ News Reports: ’2011-Year in Review’

Join the SiriusXM OutQ News team as we bid farewell to a year that saw the formal repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’; gay marriage legalized in New York State; presidential politics intensifying; and historic changes within the LGBT rights movement.

Featuring stories from our national team of correspondents, our TWO-HOUR special event will also include in-depth conversations about the most important and most compelling news stories from the past year affecting our community.

Tune in to OutQ News Reports: ’2011-Year in Review’ on Saturday, New Year’s Eve, at 3pm ET/noon West, with encores Sunday, New Year’s Day, at noon and 7pm ET and Monday, January 2nd at 11am.

Obama’s letter congrats NY gay couple on nups

A newly-married New York City gay couple were surprised when they opened the mail over the weekend to discover a card from the president, congratulating them on their recent nuptuals. OutQ’s Tim Curran reports.

Elizabeth Warren Shores Up MA Gay Support w/ Blog Post

U-S Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren outlined the specifics of her commitment to LGBT rights in blog post Thursday. The statement came in response to earlier criticism that her views on gay rights were not easy to find in the public record.

MAP Study: LGBT Groups’ Finances Stabilizing Despite Economy

A new report from an LGBT think tank has found that the nation’s leading gay rights groups have financially stabilized following the recent economic downturn. But the data also shows that the number of individual donors and their contributions have significantly decreased over the past year.

Exodus Refuses to Comment on Claims of Financial Collapse

One of the nation’s largest ex-gay groups is refusing to comment on allegations that it is on the brink of collapse due to financial constraints.

Signorile to edit HuffPo ‘Gay Voices’

As if Michelangelo Signorile isn’t busy enough hosting four hours a day, five days a week here on SiriusXM OutQ while maintaining his own blog, The Gist, and feeds on Facebook and Twitter… on Tuesday he started a new job as editor-at-large for the Gay Voices section of the Huffington Post.

TN Trans Woman Takes Off Top to Prove Gender Change

A transgender woman says she removed her shirt at a public parking lot last month to prove to the state of Tennessee that she is NOT the male that a government agency continues to identify her as.