When Patrick Wallace logged onto Facebook one morning and saw that his friend, Michael Volpatt, had posted a note from his mom expressing her unconditional love for her gay son, he immediately recognized it was something special. Less than two months later, the pair has transformed that single letter into a Web site with over…
The San Diego City Council has voted 7-0 to pay $498,320 in architectural fees and engineering designs for a new fire station in Hillcrest to replace the current old building that is too cramped to fit new fire apparatus inside. The Hillcrest Fire Station No. 5, at 3902 Ninth Ave., will be demolished and replaced…
ARKANSAS – A newspaper in Arkansas has insulted a local gay man by omitting him from the obituary of his partner of ten years. Terrance James had submitted an obituary of his partner John Christopher Millican to The Batesville Daily Guard which the paper then edited by removing James’ name. Subsequently, the Gay and Lesbian…
FLORIDA – Notoriously anti-gay reggae star Buju Banton has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of three cocaine related charges. In their verdict the 12 member jury in Tampa, Fla. declared Banton guilty on conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He was also…
Red Hot Babes and Bow Ties Saturday, July 9, 6 p.m. San Diego LGBT Community Center (3909 Centre Street in Hillcrest) Bust out your favorite bow tie and kick off your Pride festivities a week early! The Women’s Resource Center presents Red Hot Babes and Bow Ties, a women’s nightclub at The Center. Enjoy dancing…
CALIFORNIA – Last week, a Department of Education investigation found Tehachapi Unified School District was negligent in intervening in the harassment of Seth Walsh. Walsh, a 13-year-old Jacobsen Middle School student, committed suicide in 2010 after he was the victim of severe harassment due to his nonconformity with gender stereotypes. In a 20-page letter, the…
CALIFORNIA – Jean Harris, an ex-deputy mayor of San Francisco and former executive director of California Alliance for Pride and Equality (CAPE), has died at home in Palm Springs from complications due to several health issues. She was 66. CAPE later became Equality California. Equality California Interim Executive Director Jim Carroll said in a statement,…
RUSSIA – A dozen activists determined to mark the banned Slavic Gay Pride march were attacked by neo-Nazis and then dispersed by the police in St Petersburg last week. The St. Petersburg Times reported that the activists shouting “Russia with no homophobes” and “Equal rights with no compromise” marched to central St. Petersburg. Some carried…
BRAZIL – A Brazilian judge has approved the country’s first gay marriage. Following the recognition of same-sex civil unions by Brazil’s Supreme Court back in May Sao Paulo state Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto has ruled two men could convert their civil union into a full marriage. Globo television’s G1 Website identified the couple as Sergio…
It’s Pride time again. The parade, the bare-chested men with muscles and jockstraps, the bare-chested women with muscles and jockstraps, towers of hair, screamers in tacky drag, love-filled Christians condemning us all to the deepest depths of hell, etc. Ho hum. Been there. Done that. I thought. I had only seen Pride events on newscasts…
