North Park Citizens Patrol, a division of Stonewall Citizens’ Patrol, is holding a community meeting and presentation Tuesday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd. Hosted by The North Park Community Association the meeting is an opportunity to meet with community members, Mid City Police and City reps; help…
LONDON – Two professional soccer players have been fined for making anti-gay comments on Twitter. Pinknews.co.uk reported that Nile Ranger, a forward for Premier League team Newcastle United and Manny Smith a defender for League One Walsall have been handed fines by the The Football Association (FA), the governing body of English soccer, for their…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Mitt Romney Friday to fire his National Finance Chair Frank Vandersloot who has a long history of anti-LGBT extremism, and the organization needs the help of LGBT Americans to petition for his removal. Glenn Greenwald details VanderSloot’s radical positions and points out how Mitt Romney has been the…
Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plummer’ from a 2008 political stint, did not have much to say about anti-gay comments he made in 2009 as CNN host Zoraida Sambolin asked the Republican nominee for Congress on his views of LGBT Americans. The Congressional hopeful accused Sambolin of hosting TMZ as opposed to CNN…
Big Mike Phillips’ recent birthday event has raised $1,000 for aNoteToMyKid.com. More than 40 people joined Big Mike for the fundraiser at the Los Angeles Getty Center, Saturday March 3.
Wells Fargo has given $25,000 to The Center’s Sunburst Youth Housing Project and the Senior Services program. The Youth Housing project provides safe and supportive housing for San Diego’s homeless youth, including LGBT and HIV-positive youth. The 23-unit facility is located in downtown San Diego at 1640 Broadway, close to City College, public transportation, community…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed an historic bill extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state. In a grand signing ceremony in Annapolis O’Malley said, “For a free and diverse people, for a people of many faiths, for a people committed to the principle of religious freedom, the…
WASHINGTON – Chad H. Griffin has been appointed as the next president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) by the organization’s board of directors. Griffin, a national communications and policy strategist, is widely credited for being the mastermind behind the federal lawsuit to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which has now been ruled unconstitutional by two…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released a white paper titled: Transgender-Inclusive Health Care Coverage and the Corporate Equality Index, a resource for employers to make their workplaces more equitable for transgender employees. The white paper is an educational tool for employers…
