Photo courtesy Helen Thorgalsen ABC News reports that President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush attended and witnessed the wedding of friends in a same-sex ceremony in Maine this past weekend. Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, who own HB Provisions, a Kennebunk, Maine, general store, got the former president’s official stamp of approval despite the…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride announced today that due to the success of this year’s Pride event, themed Freedom to Love and Marry, they are able to continue their tradition of community giving. “In addition to being a celebration, Pride is our community’s biggest fundraiser of the year,” said San Diego LGBT Pride’s…
Last Friday, September 20, 2013, the Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) was pleased to host a number of HIV/AIDS leaders from across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as many non-federal stakeholders as we paused to recognize and reflect on major accomplishments across HHS in implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy….
LOS ANGELES — 2.8 percent of all Asian and Pacific Islander adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) according to a new study entitled, “LGBT Asian and Pacific Islander Individuals and Same-Sex Couples,” by Angeliki Kastanis, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute, and Gary J. Gates, Williams Distinguished…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the nation’s oldest LGBT advocacy organization, will commemorate its 40th anniversary at Celebrating 40 Years, a fundraising brunch and celebration, Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, Calif. The brunch will be hosted by Rea Carey, executive director of the Task Force, and will honor…
MELBOURNE — Hard on the heels of Pope Francis’ much publicized recent interview where he stated that “… the church has the right to express its opinions but not to ‘interfere spiritually’ in the lives of gays and lesbians,” comes news from Australia that the Vatican has defrocked and excommunicated a priest in Melbourne over…
SAN DIEGO – Gloria Johnson, an iconic figure within the San Diego LGBT community has died at the age of 76. Johnson, who died on Sunday, was a past president and longtime board member of San Diego Democrats for Equality. For more than four decades, Johnson was known as one of California’s most strident activists…
Today, in an historic and unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Todd Michael Hughes to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, making him the most senior openly gay judge in the U.S. Hughes is the deputy director of the Department of Justice’s commercial litigation branch for the civil division. He received his A.B. from…
SAN DIEGO — Today, Environmental Health & Justice Campaign (EHJC), an organization that empowers communities to achieve environmental justice, endorsed candidate David Alvarez for mayor of San Diego. Focused on communities south of I-8, EHJC says that the Barrio Logan resident and candidate signifies a critical chance to elect a leader who represents all San Diegans….
From Media Matters for America: Social conservatives will descend on Washington, D.C., next month for the Values Voters Summit (VVS), an annual convocation put on by an assemblage of anti-LGBT groups that will prominently feature high-profile right-wing media figures. Sponsored by organizations like the Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA) – both Southern…
