MONTGOMERY—HRC has launched the Equality is Our Business Program in Alabama. The program is designed to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the workplace, advance protections in employment, housing and public accommodations, and create more inclusive business practices. The new HRC Alabama pledge aims to strengthen support for the values of diversity and inclusion, including Alabama’s LGBT community,…
TORONTO – High profile public figures—from Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander to Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin—are lending their support to a new national campaign, calling on people across Canada to join together against the crisis of homelessness among LGBTQ2S youth. OUTatNight, launched by national equality group Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (Egale), invites participants to collect…
On NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told Chuck Todd same-sex marriage has advanced because people stopped hiding. Watch the video above. “Well, I tell you, our reality as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people beat the prejudice,” said Frank. “I mean, the central mechanism is that we stopped hiding. And it…
Equality California (EQCA), the largest statewide LGBT advocacy organization in California working to secure full and lasting equality for and acceptance of LGBT people, announced that it will be supporting undeclared candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. “We want Hillary Clinton to run and are ready to mobilize our 800,000 members to help…
PBS Digital Studios with WNET New York have just released episode 2 of the new web series First Person. Host Kristin Russo sits down with writer, musician, filmmaker and performer, Vivek Shraya, about bisexual erasure and his experience identifying as bisexual. Shraya also discusses his new book “She of the Mountains,” a bisexual love story…
This weekend Elton John weighed in on the controversial comments made by Dolce and Gabbana with respect to same-sex families. The pair reputedly said “We oppose gay adoptions. … The only family is the traditional one. … No chemical offspring and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be…
A group of University of Texas at Austin students are creating a queer-inclusive sorority — the first of its kind for the campus, reports the Huffington Post. Though it’s frequently been deemed “the first national lesbian sorority,” Gamma Rho Lambda (GRL) embraces all women “whether they identify as lesbian, bisexual, ally, transgender, questioning, straight, or…
Puerto Vallarta’s annual LGBT event “Vallarta Pride” will have a number of new initiatives this year, including an Andre Christian fashion show, an International Film Festival Screening and the participation of Orange is the New Black’s Lea DeLaria as Grand Marshal. The eight-day event will take place from May 17 to 24 and participants will…
Gay DJ/Producer Ryan Skyy has released a music video that completely re-imagines his dance single “Done” into a soulful, acoustic, spanish-influenced unplugged pop track featuring Natalie Merchant’s guitarist Gabriel Gordon and Niki Darling (Tommy Boy Records/Keystone Music Group) on vocals! The Unplugged version was recorded live and is available on iTunes and Spotify. Watch the…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Stoic Entertainment has announced that its original, scripted comedy, Kittens in a Cage, will be distributed by TV4 Entertainment and will be available to stream on hulu. The series was executive produced, directed and written by Jillian Armenante, based on the play by Kelleen Conway Blanchard and produced by Dash Arnott….
