The Batesville Daily Guard will take official action next week on whether or not gay couples will be allowed to print obituaries in their newspaper. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will run a full-page ad in the newspaper, calling upon the paper to throw out its discriminatory policy against LGBT couples. The paper’s current policy…
Approximately one-quarter of all same-sex households in the United States are raising children, according to ABC News’ coverage of the latest U.S. Census data for American LGBT families. The groundbreaking report – the first of its kind in U.S. history to incorporate same-sex couples and their children into standard data collection procedures – indicates that,…
Artist Frida Kahlo’s birthday and her work will be celebrated June 25, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the auditorium of the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The celebration and fundraiser, Pachanga de Frida – Arte, Vida Y Tequila, is now in its fourth year, and is an event put on by The Center’s…
viewing pleasures Three movies with music underscoring their plotlines have made their way to the high quality promised land, known as Blu-Ray. The first two are full-fledged musicals that celebrate the big band era of the 1940s in a great metropolitan city and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius two decades later, while the…
Long before they became synonymous with being lesbian performers, The Indigo Girls picked the first part of their name out of the dictionary, and got their stage presence perfected at Emory University in Georgia. Now, they will school the crowd at Humphreys Concerts by the bay on how to solidify the marriage between folk and…
Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis is the special guest at Soul Plates 7, a gala benefiting Being Alive HIV/AIDS services in San Diego. Presenting sponsor Moms Pharmacy has partnered with Being Alive to coordinate the event, which is scheduled for June 25, 6 p.m. at Inn at the Park (525 Spruce St., across from Balboa…
Qualcomm has donated $40,000 to The San Diego LGBT Center. The grant supports the Hillcrest Youth Center. “We are proud to be one of a handful of organizations that pioneered a transformation in how housing providers across the United States understand and address youth homelessness,” Christopher Mills of The Center said in an announcement. “Qualcomm’s…
The New Children’s Museum (NCM) and the Anti-Defamation League invite children and families to “dig our differences” at Diversity Day, Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Offering free admission, the community is encouraged to celebrate the region’s diversity, including the many races, religions, national origins, genders and sexual orientations that thrive and contribute…
A young straight man told a jury June 16 that murder suspect Philong Huynh gave him “a relaxing pill” and he later woke up in a Tijuana motel without any money and apparently had been raped. The story by Ryan, now 23, is similar to two other stories by two other young straight men who…
KENTUCKY – There is outrage in an eastern Kentucky city after two gay males were ejected from a city-owned pool. A maintenance technician told the couple and the group present, “We own this place and can tell you to leave if we want to.” Staff at The Pavilion in the city of Hazard allegedly entered…
