PASADENA, Calif.—The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear oral arguments against a lower court’s decision to dismiss a civil rights case brought by Will Walters, a gay man who sued the City of San Diego after police officers deprived him of his constitutionally protected right to equal enforcement of the law. After…
VANCOUVER, Wash.– CytoDyn Inc. (OTC.QB:CYDY), a biotechnology company focused on the development of new antibody therapies for combating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, recently announced that it submitted a Phase 3 protocol for a monotherapy trial, along with the Topline Report for its Phase 2b monotherapy trial to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Equality California has joined a diverse coalition of 326 immigration, civil rights, labor, and social service groups that filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Texas. The brief urges the court to lift an injunction that blocks executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Antigone Rising (AR) has announced the release of the brand new music video (above) for their song “Everywhere is Home” from the popular lesbian mob comedy feature film Alto. Alto is a quirky love story set in the midst of an unanticipated run-in with the New York mafia. It stars Diana DeGarmo,…
SACRAMENTO – California is set to regulate electronic cigarettes under legislation today approved by both houses of the Legislature. SB X2 5, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, protects the public against exposure to e-cigarettes by ensuring they are accurately defined as tobacco products and fall under the state’s existing smoke-free laws. It also requires that…
WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee has confirmed the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military service, voting Thursday to approve the nomination of Eric Fanning to be Army secretary. President Obama’s historic nomination of Fanning to serve as secretary of the Army now heads to the full Senate for a final vote….
