The LGBT Center is accepting donations for the annual Community Yard Sale. Clean out your closets, cabinets and garage, and donate the reusable items to The Center. Donations are being accepted at The Center, now through March 25. Acceptable items should be in good working condition, and can include clothing, small household appliances, toys, games,…
Join the Women’s Resource Center and Family Matters for a special Sapphic Cinema screening of the award-winning film The Kids Are All Right on March 18 at 7 p.m. at The LGBT Center. The film will be screened for free in The Center’s auditorium. Refreshments will be available for a small donation. Childcare is available…
Vista Community Clinic is offering a breast cancer screening clinic specifically for low-income lesbians, transgender and bisexual women ages 40 years and older. Qualified participants will receive breast cancer education, a clinical breast exam and a mammogram referral. In some cases, mammogram appointments may be available on the same day. Clinic will be held March…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The relationship with the LGBT community and the black church has never been easy. In fact, it’s become a little violent at times and isolating for many. But now some are trying to make amends. Recently a meeting took place in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fort Washington, Md. where several ministers…
SAN FRANCISCO – The first GLBT History Museum in the U.S., which opened in mid-January 2011 in San Francisco’s Castro District, has drawn extraordinary media attention from across the United States and around the world, according to a report released by the museum a month after its debut. Tens of thousands of newspapers, magazines, television…
ILLINOIS – A federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling allowing high school students to display messages critical of homosexuality. Neuqua Valley High School had allowed students to participate in a “Day of Silence” to protest against LGBT harassment. The day after, student Heidi Zamecnik wore a T-shirt that read, “Be Happy, Not Gay.”…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to allow The Westboro Baptist Church to make anti-gay protests at military funerals, with a majority vote of 8-1. The court found that the church members should be allowed to picket funerals by relying on their First Amendment rights to free speech. The court declared…
SWEDEN – A gay couple from Germany achieved a first last week as they married on an airplane between Stockholm and New York. They wed on board a SAS flight, a Scandinavian airline owned by the governments of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, which all recognize gay marriage. SAS has been conducting heterosexual weddings in the…
TURKEY – Halil Ibrahim Dinçdag˘, 35, who was forced by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) to leave his position as a professional soccer referee, has said he will continue with his legal battle against the TFF. Dinçdag˘ was barred from officiating matches in 2008 after his medical report showed that he had been excused from…
The essence of a one-pot meal is it is economical, dishwasher friendly and (if the recipe is right) brings people together. In this time of a subdued economy, the one-pot meal has brought me household savings and communion over the stove, both of which provide relief from what can otherwise be an unnerving time. So,…
