"The one million dollar pledge from Office Depot to the Lady Gaga Born this Way Foundation will influence many teens to embrace homosexuality for their lifetime who may have otherwise worked through their crisis with straight results. Thousands of kids who might have otherwise worked through their pubescent sexual identity issues will be inspired to accept the wrong choice based ... [Read]

"Realistically, we just looked at it as a necessity. Our executive V.P. said, 'It's the right thing to do, it's something we support and we have employees who have this need.'" Frantz Tiffeau, senior manager at Florida-based Office Depot, on the chain's decision to cover gender-reassignment surgery in their health insurance policies. The Human Rights Campaign reported in its annual ... [Read]