President Obama hosts his eighth LGBT Pride reception: ‘There’s a lot to be proud of today’

LGBT activists gathered at the White House Thursday for President Obama’s eighth Pride reception. In remarks given by the president at the reception he talked about his administration’s efforts to expand rights to LGBT Americans. “Every brave American who came out and spoke out, especially when it was tough.  Because of them, because of all…

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Our existence shouldn’t be up for discussion

Recent discussions about basic freedoms for transgender people in public life, however the discussion has been framed, have generally been missing the contending theorizations of what we’re really discussing. The assertion by transgender people is “We exist.” The assertion by the public antagonists of transgender people is “You don’t exist: you rebel against God given…

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Millennials are buying too

Real estate is one of those careers you can carry on for decades, and there are lots of baby boomers working as agents. They’re used to methodologies of a few decades ago, when personal service was your calling card and the telephone the tool of the trade. In the good ol’ days, we’d drive our…

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Elections matter

Tell me you like Sen. Bernie Sanders more than Secretary Hillary Clinton. I can respect that. Tell me Sanders is on the right side of some disagreements with Clinton. I may agree with you. Tell me there is no difference between Clinton and Donald Trump. I will stop listening. If you have paid attention in…

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Billy Bean: ‘MLB has spoken loudly and clearly in support of the LGBT community’

MLB’s first ambassador for inclusion opens up on the Padres/SDGMC national anthem incident Just over two weeks ago alleged homophobia in sport hit San Diego. This well-documented incident started as a night of celebration at the annual Out at the Park, May 21 at Petco Park. The evening, as the Padres were about to take…

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Congrats to the Chorus

You’ve been under a rock if you haven’t heard of the great screw-up concerning the Gay Men’s Chorus’ singing of the national anthem at the stadium. A female voice boomed out over the speakers and drowned out the guys. This made the news from coast to coast. Charges and denials of deliberate sabotage flew fast…

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