WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today denounced an anti-transgender op-ed by Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The op-ed, which stems from California AB 1266, legislation ensuring transgender students in California’s schools are treated fairly, says being transgender is “a revolt against God’s…
HONOLULU — Members of Hawaii’s Congressional delegation are uniting to express their support for marriage equality in Hawaii. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz and Reps. Colleen Hanabusa and Tulsi Gabbard released statements of support, each urging Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the state legislature to pass the freedom to marry in Hawaii without delay. “We’re…
There appears to be no shortage of theories on why elected officials oppose same-sex marriage. Case in point? Ana Maria Jiménez Ortiz, an elected congresswoman from the Mexican political party PAN in Puebla argued in public that only couples who can look in each other’s eyes during sex should be eligible for marriage. “A marriage…
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — The government of Haiti has declared that it will not tolerate any acts of hatred or violence against individuals or groups and that it will vigorously prosecute all offenders. In a press statement released yesterday the government announced: In recent weeks several lamentable acts of intolerance and violence against members of…
Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion are synonymous with not only founding and producing IndieFest and the band Danielle LoPresti and The Masses, but also with creating an independent music and culture scene in San Diego that simply did not exist before. They work hard to bring talented artists to San Diego, as well as looking…
The movers and shakers in the world of sales and consumption now aim most, if not all, of their heavy advertising, political pandering and entertainment events at the new ultra-important consumers: the millennials. This means those born after 1980; you know, the ones we refer to as kids. The members of the next group in…
The GSDBA has been one of our community’s most outstanding organizations and I have been, and will continue to be, a strong supporter since its establishment, having been close friends with your late founders. It was I, who through then President Clinton’s administration arranged that the GSDBA became the first gay business association to sign…
It’s no secret that I absolutely worship Debbie Gibson. I have been a true blue fan of hers since she first hit it big with hits like “Only In My Dreams,” “Shake Your Love” and “Foolish Beat.” “Foolish Beat” entered Debbie into the Guinness Book Of World Records as the youngest artist in history to…
When I was at grad school one of my professors gave me an old book that described homosexual life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book was an example of ethnographic research whereby the author/researcher immersed herself into the world of gay people (mostly men) to understand the subculture from within. The hardcover…
