Conchita Wurst, the bearded drag queen who won last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, has announced May 18 as the release date of her debut album, Conchita. The Austrian drag queen and singer announced the release on Twitter, as part of the promotion for her new single “You Are Unstoppable.” According to Frontiersmedia.com the May 18…
Friday, HRC delivered its historic “People’s Brief” — with 207,551 signatories calling for full nationwide marriage equality — to the US Supreme Court. Longtime HRC member Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage equality case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 28, joined HRC to hand-deliver…
Today President Obama addressed a crowd in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a historic milestone in the civil rights movement. The president said that there are places that define America’s destiny and Selma was one of those places. “In one afternoon fifty years ago, so much of our turbulent history…
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden has affirmed his support for federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people while giving remarks at the Spring Equality Convention for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Addressing the tremendous progress made for the LGBT community – from marriage equality to open and honest military service by gay, lesbian, and bisexual…
A new documentary is taking an in-depth look at what could be America’s first all queer gang. The Huffington Post reports that “Check It,” which is produced by RadicalMedia and actor Steve Buscemi, recalls how three bullied Washington, D.C. teens began the gang (which is also called Check It) in 2005. Today, Check It has…
