New Zealand news Web site, stuff.co.nz is reporting that Prime Minister John Key is publicly refuting a 20,000-copy leaflet that was distributed by New Zealand‘s Conservative Party to residents of Helensville, proclaiming that Key is “too gay” to represent that district’s electorate. ”We live in a world where equality is pretty important,” said the prime minister,…
GLAAD‘S 2012 Network Responsibility Index reflects the changing times for LGBT people, revealing a broadcast and cable television lineup, despite having grown almost exponentially since GLAAD‘s early days monitoring the mediascape for homophobia and all forms of anti-LGBT bigotry, that is replete with LGBT characters, personalities and issues portrayed or presented in realistic, often positive…
At last week’s 2012 Lavender Law Conference in Washington D.C. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about how President Obama and his administration had taken important steps to ensure equality and justice for LGBT people. Speaking before approximately 1,000 lawyers and legal professionals, at the annual gathering hosted by the National LGBT Bar Association, the attorney…
Gay advocacy organizations to host screening of The New Normal for Utah residents. Following Salt Lake City, Utah NBC affiliate KSL-TV’s decision to not air the upcoming NBC series The New Normal, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center have announced plans to host a panel discussion…
Even though the pastor of a church in Dayton, Ohio expressed concern that the burning of the church was an arson hate-crime, officials in Dayton are denying that was the case, citing a 36-year-old suspect’s stated motive for the crime. According to the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said suspect…
As the Republican National Convention comes to an end, I feel compelled to write an open letter to those in the LGBT community who are Republican. Can LGBT Republicans help me understand how you have come to be a part of a political party that truly seems to despise you? You know that the Republican…
‘Richard III’ at The Old Globe, through Sept. 29 A review presented as a one-act coffee house caricature dialogue by San Diego’s most unpredictable theater critic, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Thom Vegh Place: Filter Coffee House, San Diego Time: Another unrelenting sunny day around 10 a.m. (As the curtain rises KIP, an arts writer for…
thursday, aug. 30 The Mystery Plays Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s The Mystery Plays is comprised of two intertwined, spine-tingling one-acts. In the first – The Filmmaker’s Mystery – a young horror film director survives a train disaster only to be haunted by a passenger he met briefly…
Legislation authored by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, which redirects under-utilized housing funds to multi-family projects that provide homes for low income residents and reduce homelessness, has been passed by the state legislature and sent to the governor for his signature. AB 1951 shifts $30 million from unused funds within the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund…
