Barbara Niven, actress and Hollywood’s top video marketing coach, has been confirmed as a guest speaker for 2014 BeInspired, which will be held Sept. 26-28 at the San Diego Hilton Resort and Spa in Mission Bay. The International Association of Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals BeInspired Annual Business Women’s Conference is the Premier Educational and Networking…
The National Museum of American History has been adding a steady stream of LGBT materials to its collections in an effort to document the movement’s ongoing fight for equality. Included in the collection are artifacts from the TV show Will and Grace. MSNBC News has produced an interesting new video on the Smithsonian’s growing collection…
PASADENA, Calif. — One Direction fans all over the world are dressing up in rainbows to attend the concerts of their favorite band. In this way they are showing their support to the LGBTQ members of the One Direction community. Calling themselves “Rainbow Direction”, they connect with each other through the social media platform Tumblr…
NEW YORK— Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice has announced that Uprising of Love: A Benefit Concert for Global Equality will take place Monday, Sept. 15 at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre (222 West 51st Street). The inspiring concert will weave together stories and performances by activists and artists from around the world including the stories of resilience…
A committee within the House of Representatives rejected a measure that would make veteran same-sex partner benefits recognized in every state. Currently, veteran same-sex partners lose benefits if the veteran moves to a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage. The panel rejected the idea that these benefits should not be based upon residence within…
FERGUSON, Mo. – A month to the day after unarmed Black teenager Mike Brown was gunned down by a white police officer, LGBT activists with FCKH8.com and children from the very neighborhood that was ground zero for America’s largest racial tension flare-up in decades marked the day with the release of a mockingly funny and…
SAN DIEGO — The 3rd Annual One Love Movement Charity Yoga Event will take place at San Diego’s new Waterfront Park near San Diego Harbor and the County Administration Building Saturday Sept. 13 from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Free parking is available at Solar Turbines located at Grape St. and North Harbor Drive. The organization is…
According to multiple news reports, The Gambia’s National Assembly has passed legislation that includes nearly identical language to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, which Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law in February. The Gambian legislation includes life sentences for those who are convicted of “aggravated homosexuality” or are considered “repeat offenders,” among other charges. The legislation…
As new reports surfaced indicating the Sultan of Brunei could still be in negotiations to purchase the Plaza Hotel, today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) renewed its call to lawmakers, advocates and supporters of the rights of women and LGBT people in New York to speak out against any effort by the Sultan of Brunei to…
CHINA — A British diplomat in China has married his same-sex partner, making use of the Chinese government’s non objection to British same-sex nationals being able to wed at the U.K. diplomatic mission, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Brian Davidson, the United Kingdom’s consul-general in Shanghai, married his partner Scott Chang, an American citizen, in Beijing Sept. 6….
