Paula Ettelbrick, former Lambda Legal legal director and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) executive director has passed away after a heroic battle with ovarian cancer. Ettelbrick, 56, was executive director of IGLHRC from 2003-2009 and helped build the organization into a visible force around the world. The Washington Blade reported that in…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched Americans for Marriage Equality, a public engagement campaign featuring prominent Americans who support committed gay and lesbian couples getting married. The campaign will draw from a cadre of supportive professional athletes, film and music celebrities, political and civil rights leaders – and will have a special…
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. – School officials in Union Township are investigating the alleged anti-LGBT rant of New Jersey high school teacher Viki Knox. Knox, a teacher at Union High School, posted a slew of homophobic and transphobic remarks on her public Facebook wall after she saw a bulletin board celebrating LGBT History Month in her…
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two transgender rights bills into law. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act makes “gender identity and expression” its own protected category at work, at school, in housing, at public accommodations and in other settings. The Vital Statistics Modernization Act, makes it easier for transgender people to get a court-ordered gender…
AUSTRALIA – Prominent South Australian Labor Party politician, Tom Kenyon has apologized for saying openly gay minister Penny Wong should not be allowed to marry her pregnant partner. Wong’s partner, Sophie Allouache, is pregnant, and the baby is due sometime in December. The Australian newspaper reported Kenyon, who is from Labor’s “hard Catholic right faction”…
WARSAW –Anna Grodzka, president of Transgender Europe (TGEU) member organization Trans-Fuzja, a Polish transgender support group, has become the first openly transgender woman to be elected into the Polish parliament. Grodzka, who has been working for transgender and intersex issues for more than four years, was a candidate of the Palikot Movement, a new political…
Sometimes, it’s hard not to laugh. When your favorite four-year-old says something hilariously profound, you bite your lip, knowing that you’d be in trouble if you bust a gut. If your beloved does something silly (but well-meaning), you twist your lips to avoid the outburst you know is coming. When your great-aunt shows up at…
As many of you know, October is national breast cancer awareness month and our lesbian sisters are affected almost twice as much as their straight counterparts. Please support the Toni Atkins Health Fund at The Center. Thank you. Gay Marine gets threats In 1948, when President Truman issued his executive order (No. 9981) marking the…
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher dvd of the week As I wrote in the spring, I laughed out loud several times while watching Bad Teacher. The younger men in the audience when I saw the movie were particularly enamored with the movie, especially when the issue of breasts was first and foremost. While Bad Teacher…
dvr this I’d rather prep for Halloween with a witchy comedy than silly horror film. So, thanks to TCM, we can see the 1959 movie, Bell, Book and Candle, that was the inspiration for Bewitched. The film is a delightful romantic comedy featuring Jimmy Stewart (in the role that would be Darren in the TV…
