It all ended with a simple Tweet from the White House at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning that said, “The repeal of the discriminatory law known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell finally and formally takes effect.” DADT was dead. Many years of work by a myriad of organizations and individuals finally helped the law succumb to…
Stepping Stone will host its annual Mission Bay Cruise on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. The cruise which is in its third year of existence will also help to celebrate Stepping Stone’s 35th birthday. The event will feature an exhibit chronicling 35 years of recovery. Since its inception in 1976, Stepping Stone has been committed to…
Time to get your Thanksgiving pie on! Mama’s Kitchen, a nonprofit organization that delivers thousands of healthy hot meals at no cost to San Diego men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS or cancer, is set to once again host the West Coast’s largest bake sale. Baked by local pastry chefs, caterers and bakeries, the…
Thousands of LGBT softball players are making their way to San Diego for the 28th annual Autumn Classic, hosted by America’s Finest City Softball League (AFCSL) during Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 7-9. The tournament reached max capacity with 100 registered teams several weeks before the first pitch. “With over 1,400 athletes coming in from as…
NEW YORK – Police have opened a criminal investigation in the suicide death of Buffalo, N.Y., 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who was bullied online with gay slurs for more than a year, reported ABC News. A student at Williamsville North High School, Jamey had been tormented for the past 12 months by cyberbullies who made disparaging…
CALIFORNIA – With the close of the 2011 Legislative session Equality California (EQCA) reached a new milestone – passage of its most ambitious legislative program since the organization was founded in 1998. EQCA successfully sponsored 12 bills, many initiated under the leadership of former EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors, on issues ranging from domestic partnership…
On the day the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell finally happened, young airman Randy Phillips came out to his father via telephone broadcasting a webcam of the event on YouTube. The airman who is stationed at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany telephoned his father in Alabama to tell him he was gay. In…
CALIFORNIA – Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the videotapes of the trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown) should be made public. During last year’s trial, which ended with an historic decision finding California’s constitutional amendment stripping marriage rights from same-sex…
CHINA – A famous Chinese dancer claims she was fired as a judge on a TV talent show because she is transgender. China Daily reported that Jin Xing was contracted to appear on eight episodes of Feitong Fanxiang, a contest for professional singers broadcast on Zhejiang TV. Despite being one of the few transgender women…
UNITED KINGDOM – Following the announcement by U.K. health ministers that the rules allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood if they refrain from sex for 12 months, would be relaxed, Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland’s health minister, has refused to lift the lifetime ban in Northern Ireland. On Nov. 7 the ban will be…
