Seton Hall’s Derrick Gordon could soon make history as the first openly gay basketball player to compete in the NCAA March Madness tournament. Seton Hall’s victory over Villanova in the Big East Championship on Saturday means they qualify for the Men’s Division I NCAA Basketball Tournament, which begins this week. Gordon first came out in 2014 while playing…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– The Board of Equality PAC, a political action committee formed by leaders of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, announced today their endorsement of Secretary Hillary Clinton to be the next president of the United States of America. “The Equality PAC is thrilled to endorse Secretary Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Presidency,” said Equality PAC…
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan has been appointed by President Obama as the White House’s primary LGBT liaison. BuzzFeed News broke the story first as Freedman-Gurspan becomes the first transgender person in that role. In 2015, Freedman-Gurspan was hired by President Obama as an Outreach and Recruitment Director in the Presidential Personnel Office at the White House. She…
The threat of atomic war overshadowed my generation. On May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill announced VE Day, the end of World War II in Europe. On September 2, 1945, after horrendous destruction, Japan formally surrendered, ending the war throughout the rest of the world. I was born September 9, 1945 into a world free of…
SAN DIEGO – Broadway/San Diego has announced an all new show when the internationally-acclaimed Beatles concert, RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles, returns to San Diego to thrill audiences once again but this time with new songs and high definition imagery. Tickets are on sale now for the March 29-April 3 engagement that, for the…
https://youtu.be/tdyLC3g4Z6U “Share the Screen”, launched at Sundance, is Vimeo’s new initiative they hope will help close the gender gap that is so pervasive in the entertainment industry. Vimeo intends to foster equality by investing in female-led programming, educational workshops, meet-ups, interviews, and more that spotlight and support female voices in the Vimeo community. March 8,…
LOS ANGELES – GLAAD has announced it will honor actress Ruby Rose at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton April 2. For the first time in nearly a decade, the GLAAD Media Awards will be televised exclusively on Logo in a one-hour special premiering Monday, April 4 at…
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced that HRC’s Board of Directors, comprised of community leaders from across the nation, voted Friday to issue the following Congressional endorsements focusing on incumbent members of Congress. “From supporting nationwide marriage equality, to co-sponsoring the Equality Act, these members of Congress have demonstrated a strong commitment…
Hillary Clinton has apologized for remarks she made prior to Nancy Reagan’s funeral on Friday praising in particular Nancy Reagan for starting “a national conversation” on HIV/AIDS. Clinton said, “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan–in particular Mrs. Reagan–we started a national conversation when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about…
Thursday, by a vote of 23 to 7 the Missouri Senate advanced Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 39 to the House of Representatives. Gaining national attention after a historic filibuster by Democrats earlier this week, the measure proposes to allow individuals, organizations, and businesses to use religion as a valid excuse to discriminate against LGBT people. Similar…
