INDIA — A public service video campaign using transgender women to get motorists to use their seat belts while driving on Indian roads has gone viral on the InterneT, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Almost 2 million people have watched the video of transgender women dressed as cabin crew exhorting Indian motorists at a traffic crossing to buckle…
SAN DIEGO – Members of the San Diego Opera Chorus will be singing opera arias and art songs as part of the 21st Annual San Diego Sicilian Festival on Sunday, May 18, 2014. The Jazz and Opera Stage at Grape Street will showcase opera in San Diego and raise awareness in support of San Diego…
WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on lawmakers, activists and allies of the LGBT community to speak out against the planned expansion to New York of a hotel chain owned by the anti-LGBT Sultan of Brunei. The Sultan recently announced that he will soon introduce flogging, amputation, and stoning as possible punishments…
WASHINGTON – A newly released study by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil right organization, The Cost of the Closet and the Rewards of Inclusion, identifies that most LGBT employees (53 percent) nationwide are closeted on the job. The report, released today, comes on the heels of a report by…
SAN FRANCISCO – A new multimedia exhibit opening May 29 at the GLBT History Museum tells the story of San Francisco Bay Area’s bisexual activism that since the 1970s has been grounded in the politics of visibility, accountability, and vitality. A playful spirit has mixed with a seriousness of purpose at key moments across four…
BOSTON – Jack’d, the fastest growing gay app in the world among young gay men, today released the findings of a community survey conducted among its users in the United States. Ahead of the second anniversary of Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage May 9, Jack’d surveyed its users on their thoughts on marriage, relationships and…
By the end of the 1950s, it had become apparent that the first chapter in rock ’n’ roll’s storied history had come to a close. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens (“La Bamba”) and the Big Bopper (“Chantilly Lace”) were all killed in a plane crash over Iowa. Little Richard (“Good Golly, Miss Molly”) had retired from…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 My biggest peeve with many comic book movies is how much they divert from their source materials. However, Sam Raimi’s three Spider-Man movies, whatever liberties taken with plot points, did not change the essence of Peter Parker and his alter ego: he was a teenage orphan who was bitten by a…
For many LGBT people – especially the guys – sun worshipping at Black’s Beach is as much a part of the Hillcrest scene as dancing at a club. But May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and for those who don’t think skin cancer is serious, remember James Rebhorn, the character actor perhaps best known as…
Toni Atkins, the incumbent in the race for California Assembly District 78 represents the highest concentration of LGBT residents in San Diego. An icon in the LGBT community she soundly beat Republican Ralph Denney in the 2012 general election garnering more than 60 percent of the vote. Atkins was elected speaker of the assembly and…
