SAN DIEGO – With less than a month away from the June 3 election, a supermajority of the San Diego City Council, including Council President Todd Gloria and Councilmember David Alvarez, gathered today at City hall to announce their support for the Barrio Logan Plan and Propositions B and C. Joining Council President Gloria and…
Since its now famous dual rulings on same-sex marriage –striking down both Prop. 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – the United States Supreme Court has ushered in an era of challenges to same-sex marriage bans across the United States. No fewer than ten states have had their constitutional bans struck down…
The Daily Caller provided a hate group spokesman a platform to smear marriage equality and same-sex families, part of the conservative Web site’s pattern of promoting the commentary of some of the most extreme anti-LGBT figures in the country, reports Media Matters for America. In a May 5 column, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg of…
BYRON, Mich.– Assigned male at birth and cast as the wrong character in the story of her life, Nicole Bray, leverages crowd-funding platform Indiegogo to raise funds to document her final transition from male to female and how she found the strength to come forward and reveal her true self with her family’s love and…
The United Nations Free & Equal campaign has released the first-ever Bollywood music video for gay rights, featuring Bollywood star and Miss India winner Celina Jaitly. With a glamorous set and lively tunes, the video showcases how important family acceptance is in India, and Asia in general, and how mindsets are changing all across the…
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s Minister for Families and Social Development Chan Chun Sing has publicly reprimanded the US bank Goldman Sachs for giving LGBT in the city-state better employment opportunities, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “Singapore and Singaporeans will decide on the norms for our society. Foreign companies here should respect local culture and context,” Chan said on his Facebook…
LOS ANGELES –– The 29th Annual California Women’s Conference (CWC) will stage the Creative Expressions Concert series at Long Beach Convention Center across both nights of this month’s highly anticipated two day event May 19, 20. The Creative Expressions Concert series, showcasing performing artists including Mary Lambert, will be streamed live online. The Marriage Equality…
WASHINGTON – Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin has written to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki urging him to apply a broad interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor, to ensure recognition of veterans’ same-sex spouses regardless of where they live. After last year’s Windsor ruling invalidating Section 3 of…
SAN DIEGO — Equality Professionals Network (EPN), a group that represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) business professionals and their Allies, will hold their Second Annual LGBT & Allies Career Event on Monday, May 12, 2014, 5:00-8:30 p.m., at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa at 3999 Mission Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92109 on…
While discussing an effort to roll back a transgender non-discrimination law in Maryland, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow called out the right-wing “myth” about sexual predators entering trans-inclusive bathrooms, reports Media Matters for America. On April 29, a conservative group in Maryland launched an effort calling for a referendum to repeal the recently enacted Fairness for All…
