WASHINGTON – A senior advisor to Mitt Romney recently admitted on CNN that Romney’s positions on an array of issues are akin to an Etch A Sketch, and that the beginning of the general election campaign was a clean slate for the candidate. The advisor made the remarks when asked whether Romney had moved too…
PHOENIX – An Arizona high school student, who was bullied, followed home and threatened for being gay, has become the youngest advocate on loan in the Phoenix Mayor’s Office. Caleb Laieski, 17, will work as a youth and diversity liaison, to raise awareness about bullying and diversity and serve as a point of contact for…
ROSEAU, Dominica – Two gay men from Palm Springs and Los Angeles have pleaded guilty to the charge of “indecent exposure” after they were spotted having sex on a gay cruise ship by someone on the island of Dominica. John Robert Hart, 41, and 43-year-old Dennis Jay Mayer, passengers on the Atlantis Events-chartered Celebrity Summit…
BERLIN – An ad campaign developed in 2009 has come back to haunt the agency that created it. German advertising agency Scholz & Friends, designed the ad, which shows a steak branded with the words ‘Tofu ist schwules fleisch’ (Tofu is gay meat) for restaurant chain, Maredo, but it was never used in public. Der…
dvd of the week Alexander Payne won another Oscar for his screenplay to this low-key dramedy about a man dealing with finding out that his comatose wife cheated on him, their problematic children, and a large family squabble about what to do with a huge track of Hawaiian land they inherited. George Clooney is more…
dvr this Arguably the funniest movie ever made, Billy Wilder’s movie about cross-dressing musicians (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) and the most amazing ditz to ever grace the screen (Marilyn Monroe) was shot at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado and has as many quotable lines as Casablanca, Wizard of Oz and Star Wars combined. On…
Several thousand hockey fans got a little extra at a recent Toronto Maple Leafs game in Canada. Yahoo Sports reported that during the second intermission a Toronto Maple Leafs fan named Alicia stood on the ice wearing a blindfold. When it was removed, she looked up at the video scoreboard and read a message from…
Reggae artist Sizzla has been banned from performing in Stockholm, Sweden after his anti-gay lyrics had sparked outrage among Swedish music-lovers. The Local reported that Sizzla, real name Sizzla Kalonji, was scheduled to perform later this month in Stockholm but public condemnation of the artist, whose lyrics have incited violence against gay people, led organizers…
Many, if not most leaders in the American labor movement started life with humble beginnings; and it was often their upbringings that motivated and propelled them to fight for the rights of the working man, woman and child. Along the way, labor’s best and brightest found themselves flanked by equally fine leaders from the LGBT-equality…
