NEW YORK — Absolutely Fabulous’s Edina and Patsy are back with stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley bringing boisterous and brash characters to the big screen for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. Not surprisingly, gay men found much to identify with in Saunders and Lumley’s portrait of two ridiculous women refusing to grow old quietly. The…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AIDS United Public Policy Committee, the largest and longest-running national coalition of community-based HIV/AIDS organizations, calls for the local implementation of supervised injection facilities as part of a comprehensive public health approach to reduce overdose deaths, prevent the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C and improve quality of life among people…
SAN FRANCISCO— Hornet – the world’s second largest gay social network – announced Tuesday that it has acquired Vespa, the leading gay city guide, to provide the most innovative set of apps to the 250 million strong consumer segment of gay men worldwide. Vespa’s founder and CEO Christof Wittig, who co-founded Hornet in 2011, has…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — National PTA, the nation’s oldest and largest child advocacy association, adopted a resolution during its 2016 Annual Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla. on the Recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Individuals as a Protected Class. The resolution calls for federal policies that specifically protect LGBTQ youth and local practices…
The Orlando Gay Chorus took to the stage of Denver’s Ellie Caulkins Opera House this past weekend in front of a 2,500 strong crowd, partway through the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA) Festival to launch into a rendition of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ as a tribute to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. “Orlando…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., — The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which is likely the largest provider of LGBT healthcare in the world, is implementing various system-wide changes aimed at improving LGBT care, including transgender e-consultations to aid interdisciplinary providers and the addition of a self-identified gender identity field to all veteran record systems. These actions…
Florida’s Department of Children and Families has restored protections for LGBTQ youth in group home care. Equality Florida and child welfare experts met with DCF Secretary Mike Carroll immediately after language that would have protected LGBTQ youth was removed from proposed changes to the rules governing group homes. Child welfare agencies had advocated for the…
RALEIGH — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be in Raleigh on Tuesday evening, the candidate’s second visit to North Carolina in less than a month. Will Gov. Pat McCrory join his chosen presidential candidate on stage, or just raise money for Trump like last time? Gov. McCrory has twice pledged to support Trump, and…
WASHINGTON—In light of the recent murder of 49 Latino and Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) people in Orlando, Fla., and on the heels of escalating and unprecedented misguided legislative efforts to pass discriminatory laws, the nearly 7,000 delegates at the National Education Association (NEA) Representative Assembly (RA) Monday approved a new business…
