NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) media advocacy organization, has released the findings of a new survey, conducted online by Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults age 18+, which shows that the number of Americans who report knowing or working with someone who is transgender has doubled in…
Sam Smith has officially unveiled the new James Bond theme, reports Pink News. The star premièred ‘Writing’s on the Wall’ Friday as the lead song for upcoming film Spectre on the U.K.’s Radio One. “I love the song so much… it’s the quickest I’ve ever written a song – it took 20 minutes… and [the…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released an issue brief to help employees and employers build more inclusive workplace environments for bisexual people. “Bisexual Visibility in the Workplace” addresses the largely unacknowledged challenge of bisexual employee visibility and inclusion, and provides practical suggestions for improving the climate through actions by individual employees, employee…
GLAAD has created a video of anti-LGBT moments in Hollywood films over the last five years. “We’re still the butt of the joke,” Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO and president of GLAAD, told Variety. “We’re still infrequently seen and when we are seen, it’s in a negative light.” In the wake of the Emmy Awards, the…
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The recent nomination by President Obama of Eric K. Fanning to be U.S. Secretary of the Army is a seminal moment in American and LGBT history; if confirmed by the Senate, Fanning would be the first openly gay secretary of a military branch. Wed., Oct. 7, the National Press Club will look back at…
Honey Lee Cottrell, a visionary photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica in the 1980s through her contributions to the women’s erotica magazine On Our Backs, died on Monday, Sept. 21, in Santa Cruz, Calif. The cause was pancreatic cancer. She was 69 years old. Cottrell revolutionized the female nude, validated women’s right to pleasure,…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the 19th annual HRC National Dinner on the evening of October 3, 2015, in Washington, DC. In addition, HRC announced that seven-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney will present HRC’s National Vanguard Award to Academy…
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund announced today that it has endorsed Chris Ward as a candidate for San Diego City Council. “We all know that District 3 has had a strong history of leadership on the San Diego City Council, and since Christine Kehoe’s historical election in 1993, the district has had strong LGBT leadership,”…
LOS ANGELES —AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization that currently serves over 486,000 patients around the world each year, today denounced the lack of regulation and pharmaceutical industry greed that has led to record drug prices for specialty medications and billions of dollars in profits for drug manufacturers. Most recently, Turing Pharmaceuticals…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that multi-platinum selling Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen and multi-platinum selling Grammy award-winning act A Great Big World – joined by Hip-Hop artist Futuristic – will perform at the 19th annual HRC National Dinner on October 3, 2015, in Washington, DC. “We are excited…
