http://youtu.be/SWfyoTdUzuE “All-American Boy” singer Steve Grand went bucket (and clothing) free for his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge video, reports Huffington Post. “I don’t have an ice bucket and I don’t want to waste fresh water, so I’m jumping into Lake Superior, which is really cold right now,” Grand, deemed country music’s first openly gay male…
LOS ANGELES — “Good for business” has become a rallying cry for LGBT activists, and multinational corporations interested in the bottom line are taking heed. Will money be the vehicle that drives LGBT equality around the globe? For its October/November 2014 cover story, The Advocate contributor Jeremy Lybarger examines why allying with LGBT consumers is…
ISRAEL — A gay rabbi from England living in Israel was installed as the leader of Adat Shalom Emanuel in Rehovot, the only non-Orthodox synagogue in the city, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Rabbi Mikie Goldstein, a native of Liverpool who has been living in Israel since 1989, belongs to Israel’s Masorti (Conservative) Movement that approved the ordination…
SAN JOSE, Calif — In Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as a transgender woman, Kristin Beck. Following its CNN broadcast debut Sept. 4, the powerful and honest documentary will be available across all digital platforms including iTunes and WolfeOnDemand beginning Sept. 9 and…
Martina Navratilova proposed to her girlfriend, Julia Lemigova, at the men’s semi-finals at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York City over the weekend. “I have been waiting for the right time to ask Julia to marry me. I thought this was the right place and the right time to pop the question and…
President Obama has announced that Megan Smith will serve as the next U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) and assistant to the president, succeeding Todd Park. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Smith, the former vice president at Google’s X lab, is the first woman, as well as openly lesbian, CTO. Previously, she was COO and CEO of…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation today condemned another Catholic school firing of LGBT employees and cited it as more evidence of the church’s efforts to shove these workers – and potentially thousands of others – back in the closet. “There is a sad and troubling narrative of increasing discrimination by Catholic institutions…
The community is invited to attend San Diego Pride’s 2014 Town Hall meeting on Monday, Sept. 8 from 6-7 pm at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. At the event, members of San Diego Pride’s staff and board of directors will be on hand to discuss the signature Pride events, and will also discuss board…
In an op-ed for The Advocate, Ana Ma, COO and chief of staff of HRC, and Matthew McClellan, the executive director of the National Council of La Raza Action Fund, urge President Obama to take action on immigration reform. Ma and McClellan write, “Two of the most pressing civil rights issues facing our nation today…
http://youtu.be/eTb-eepjheE Stonewall, the largest LGBT lobbying organization both in England and on the European Continent, has teamed up with Paddy Power, the Irish bookmaker, for a new advertising campaign entitled “The Changing Room,” to help combat homophobia from both players and fans of soccer. It is a follow-up to last year’s “Right Behind Gay Footballers”…
