Human Rights Campaign unveils Equality Rocks T-shirt

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, is unveiling a T-shirt design in celebration of Equality Rocks, a public engagement campaign featuring prominent musicians – both American and international – who support LGBT equality. By sparking conversations about the power of love, fairness and equality, the campaign aims to drum up support for marriage equality and bring…

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Obama cancels Moscow trip amid human rights concerns

WASHINGTON – In an interview Tuesday with Jay Leno on NBC’s The Tonight Show, President Obama condemned a new Russian law that criminalizes even the most modest gestures of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. The president stated that such laws violate “the basic morality that I think should transcend every country, and…

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Harvey Milk’s American Diner: getting ready to ‘feed the soul of our community’

An iconic Hillcrest delicatessen is changing after thirty years of business. City Delicatessen & Bakery owners Alan Blimes and Michael Wright are finally saying farewell after nearly three decades at their location on the corner of University and Sixth Avenues, next to the Hillcrest sign. New owners Frank Lechner, Michael (Big Mike) Phillips and Tom…

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