SAN DIEGO – For the past decade San Diego’s very own Imperial Court and countless volunteers have raised money and collected Easter baskets, bicycles, toys and more for underprivileged children to receive Easter Sunday. The Imperial Court de San Diego and Empress Candi Samples kicked off the 10th annual Children’s Easter Basket campaign at Bamboo…
TORINO, Italy – The organizers of the 28th Torino GLBT Film Festival have revealed the official poster promoting the festival. German cartoonist Ralf König created the image for the festival, taking inspiration from the original 1986 poster by Marco Silombri. One of the most successful German cartoonists, König’s comics are translated and published in many…
(CNN) — Your Facebook “likes” might be revealing more than you know about your private life. It is possible to predict potentially private traits such as a person’s sexual orientation, political leanings, religion, intelligence, emotional stability and even if they abuse drugs or alcohol, just by analyzing their Facebook likes, according to a new study…
LONDON (CNN) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will miss a service celebrating the Commonwealth Monday, as she continues to recover from an illness that left her hospitalized last week, Buckingham Palace announced in a statement. The 86-year-old monarch was admitted to a London hospital on March 3 with symptoms of gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the…
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (KTXL-CNN) — Love is love — that’s the message hundreds had for the Westfield Galleria at Roseville Saturday. “It’s okay to be who you are!” one protestor said. Exactly one week after Jose Guzman and Daniel Chesmore say they were asked to leave the Roseville Galleria for showing too much gay PDA, supporters…
BY ALEX ZADEL Alex Zadel is an intern at Political Research Associates. The two most prominent LGBTQ organizations in the conservative movement, GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, are getting the cold shoulder from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Since 1973, CPAC, hosted annually by the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF), has attracted thousands…
With the departure of one of the U.S. State Department’s most vocally pro-gay advocates in its history, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be pleased to learn the agency has just launched a new Web site for gay travelers at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/lgbt/lgbt_5887.html. The site is devoted to making travel as easy and as incident free for the LGBT community….
Travis Mathews, the documentarian whose short film I Want Your Love has been met with near universal acclaim on the worldwide queer film festival circuit, was denied permission to show his film in Australia, reports The Sidney Morning Herald. Citing inconsistencies with film festival guidelines, Lesley O’Brien, the director of the classification board (Australia’s equivalent of…
Alicia Keys wants to change the way people think about HIV. Keys has taken up the issue of women and HIV in America, from who it affects to what a life with HIV can look like to how everyone can make a difference.
(CNN) — Christine Quinn, the front-running Democratic candidate to become the next mayor of New York, made her bid official Sunday, saying in a web video her aim was to keep the metropolis “a place for the middle class.” In the video she recapped her time as speaker of the City Council, as well as…
