Logo TV announces new transgender-themed web series ‘Beautiful As I Want To Be’

Get More: Beautiful As I Want To Be // Logo TV NEW YORK – Logo today announced the premiere of Beautiful As I Want To Be, a digital-exclusive video series spotlighting transgender youth, Wednesday, Oct. 28, on LogoTV.com and Logo’s YouTube. Each of the 4 episodes will be introduced by Geena Rocero, a transgender supermodel…

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HRC critical of Papal meeting with Kim Davis; urges church to embrace LGBT Catholics

WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, weighed in on news reports that Pope Francis met privately last week with Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Ky., public official who continues to violate the law by openly discriminating against same-sex couples seeking to marry in the community they call home. “We hope that this…

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Speaker Atkins credits Assembly members, governor, with compromise to create historic medical marijuana legislation

SAN DIEGO – Today, Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) credited Assemblymembers Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) and Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) for negotiating legislation with Gov. Brown and bringing the state to the verge of finally having medical marijuana regulations in place. Bonta and Wood, two of the lead authors of the legislation, joined Atkins, along…

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Sept. 30: San Diego area town hall meetings to educate LGBT seniors, military veterans about access to Social Security benefits

Know Your Rights/California and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare Foundation is hosting two free town hall meetings for LGBT seniors in San Diego County. Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  The first meeting is for LGBT military veterans. The second meeting is a…

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HRC to launch Global Corporate Coalition to advance LGBT equality in workplaces worldwide

NEW YORK – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will announce the creation of a groundbreaking global coalition committed to advancing LGBT workplace equality around the world. The announcement will be made on stage during the closing plenary of the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York. The inaugural members of HRC’s global corporate…

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‘Stonewall’ bombs at the box office

Trouble-hit movie Stonewall bombed at the box office in its limited start at the weekend, grossing $112,414 from 127 theaters for an abysmal location average of $871, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The historical drama by openly gay director Roland Emmerich recounts the events surrounding the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a bloody standoff with police outside a…

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