WASHINGTON – Oklahoma Rep. Mike Reynolds (R-Oklahoma City) is pushing legislation that would implement a more extreme version of the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) law, which would be applicable to the state’s National Guard. The bill would bar gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals from serving in the Oklahoma National Guard. The bill goes…
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney is touting the endorsement of anti-gay fundamentalist Kris Kobach. Kobach, who now serves as the Kansas secretary of state, is best known for using fear tactics to spread his anti-immigration agenda. He also is virulently anti-gay, and in 2004 made the claim that HRC and other LGBT equality organizations supported “homosexual…
ONTARIO, Canada – A news report from Canada has stated that a lawyer in the current government has taken a position in a trial-level divorce proceeding that a same-sex couple’s marriage is not valid because the couple were not Canada residents at the time that they married, and the law of their home jurisdiction did…
Well, my doctor has OK’d a speaking engagement for me in Texas this weekend, but then I’m grounded for another month. Jerry Sanders … the pride of San Diego When Mayor Sanders took office about seven years ago our city was under a dark cloud and the laughing stock of national publications including Time magazine…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced a new anti-bullying PSA featuring WWE (formerly World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) “superstars and divas,” Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly, Alicia Fox, Sheamus and Kofi Kingston. The Amplify Your Voice PSA, produced with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), debuted Dec. 13 on USA Network as part…
In this second part of San Diego LGBT Weekly’s look at the recent inaugural report from the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, questions have inevitably been raised about what needs to be done on a global basis to protect LGBT people worldwide. Among its conclusions, the report…
This year’s Imperial Court de San Diego’s Coronation XL, from what I have heard, can be expected to feature the leather contingent out in full force. I won’t say any more about that until I get an official word. Still, I’m confident it will be worth your while to go if you’re interested in leather….
also playing The buzz on The Iron Lady has been that Meryl Streep is amazing as Margaret Thatcher and the movie isn’t very good. Since I don’t read reviews before I write mine, I’m not sure why the buzz isn’t that Streep is amazing and the movie is excellent. Because I loved it. Told in…
For six seasons, Sarah Jessica Parker became synonymous with playing the phrase “single and ready to mingle” on Sex and the City. Her subsequent non-Sex movie roles have always steered clear of Carrie Bradshaw territory, including her latest DVD offering, I Don’t Know How She Does It. SJP’s character of Kate Reddy is the antithesis…
Today, Gov. Chris Christie (R-New Jersey) nominated an openly gay Republican mayor and an assistant state attorney general to New Jersey’s highest court. Phil Kwon, the first Asian-American to sit on the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Bruce Harris, a gay African-American mayor elected to Chatham Borough in November, were nominated Monday. “I am honored…
