Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act in February by urging those gathered at a recent Human Rights Campaign gala to reelect President Barack Obama; so said the administration’s own Office of Special Counsel said Wednesday. The problem stems from the fact that Sebelius was acting in her official capacity as…
La Jolla Symphony Chorus will hold auditions for openings in all sections Saturday, Sept. 29. The 125-voice chorus rehearses Monday evenings at the University of California, San Diego, Conrad Prebys Music Center. Concerts are given throughout the season in Mandeville Auditorium on the UCSD campus as well as other San Diego venues. Chorus membership is…
SD Hoops LGBT Basketball League has announced the following schedule of events as it prepares for the upcoming season and community engagement: Three-on-three tournament The league’s three-on-three tournament signup deadline has been bumped to Wednesday, September 26. Team fees must be paid by this date to be eligible. The one-day tournament is Saturday, Oct. 6 at…
Poll numbers released today show Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin has surged to a 3 point lead over Republican candidate Tommy Thompson among likely voters in Wisconsin. This poll, the second to show Baldwin leading since the August Republican primary, shows the momentum is on Baldwin’s side – with 90 percent of likely voters now…
Washington (CNN) – Mitt Romney told an interviewer Monday that he has never met with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the architect of tough immigration laws in Alabama and Arizona who says he has been counseling Romney for years. Univision America Radio host Helen Aguirre-Ferre asked Romney, who spent Monday making a push for…
LOS ANGELES – The first academic study of the effects of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) has found that the new policy of open service has had no overall negative impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention or morale. The University Of California Los Angeles Palm Center released the study, the first academic…
Washington United for Marriage, the broad coalition working to defend the state’s bipartisan marriage law, today hailed four editorials from leading newspapers across the state which endorsed Referendum 74 and the state’s pro-marriage–equality law this past weekend. The Columbian which serves the greater Vancouver area, the Seattle Times, and The Spokesman Review which covers Spokane and the…
Six Flags Magic Mountain’s annual “Out on the Mountain” (LGBT) Night returns in 2012 this Friday, September 21. Alexis Jordan, Shangela, DJ Ray Rhodes, Daniel Joseph Baker, Ingenue and DJ Steve Oaks star in a night of entertainment, as the entire the park “goes gay” for the night. “Out on the Mountain” is the creation…
Access Hollywood is reporting that The X Factor contestant and former Britney Spears duet partner for 1998’s “I Will Still Love You,” Don Philip was bullied into coming out on last Wednesday’s season premier, and that’s why his performance was sub-par. “It was kind of a private thing they forced out of me,” Philip claimed…
Zach Wahls – Nationally-Noted Advocate and Author of “My Two Moms” to Lead Event Addressing Anti-LGBT Policies of the Boy Scouts of America; Suggested Donation: $10 ($15 at the door) Advancing Compassion Project presents Zach Wahls and “Scouts for Equality” in San Diego on Sept. 23rd to discuss the impact of the Boy Scouts’ ban on Gay Scouts and…
