John Waters: ‘I support gay marriage not for myself, but for straight gay people’ (VIDEO)

Iconic filmmaker John Waters sat down with HuffPost Live and shared that he supports gay marriage not for himself, but for “straight gay people.” Waters: “I campaigned with Governor O’Malley to make gay marriage legal, even though I’m certainly not going to get married. But for straight gay people, they like to do that kind…

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13 percent of Harvard 2015 graduating class identify as gay, bisexual or something else

As the Class of 2015 prepares to leave Harvard, the Harvard Crimson has published its annual “By the Numbers” survey on the graduating class. Within the findings 13 percent of the Class of 2015 identified as gay, bisexual or something else and 47 percent of those respondents said they have felt marginalized because of their…

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United Airlines shows pride by speaking out on marriage equality

CHICAGO — United and its employees will commemorate LGBT Pride Month this June by marching in parades, sponsoring events and hosting celebrations at destinations across the airline’s global route network. But more than the festivities, the company is marking this historic Pride Month – one in which the U.S. Supreme Court may rule on the issue…

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New scholarship to support LGBT undergraduate students being developed at UC San Diego

The Center for Networked Systems (CNS), a computer science research center at UC San Diego, is developing a new initiative to support LGBT undergraduate students in computer science and engineering. Named The Alan Turing Scholarship, this initiative will be established in 2015 by CNS through philanthropic partnership. CNS will award the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship…

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Calls for ‘Straight Pride’ club prompt outrage, need for reconciliation in Indiana

A group of Bloomington High School North students requesting to start a “straight pride” club to purportedly counter the schools’ Gay/Straight Alliance have created an atmosphere of outrage and calls for reconciliation reports the IndyStar.com. The brouhaha began when several students requested, and were granted, club status. “A group of students at Bloomington High School…

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Santorum will ‘continue to fight’ Supreme Court if it legalizes same-sex marriage

Speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage later this year, he would dispute the decision, saying that the court would have decided “this case in error”. “Of course I’d fight it,” Santorum said.  “Roe versus Wade was decided 30 some years…

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Historic LGBT Michels-Carey House at 2004 El Cajon Blvd demolished without notice

One of San Diego’s most important early LGBTQ sites, the small saltbox house at the corner of Florida Street and El Cajon Boulevard has been demolished without warning. HG Fenton, the developer of the property, demolished the house at 5 p.m. Friday May 29. Charles Kaminski of Lambda Archives of San Diego, who had organized…

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Watch: Sneak peek of season finale of Logo TV’s ‘Cucumber’

Check out this exclusive clip from ‘Cucumber’s’ season finale; the drama series that explores 21st century gay life in all its powerful, witty, dark and uplifting guises through the lens of two disparate generations. In the season finale Henry invites a collection of local LGBT friends and family to move in to his new home,…

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