Today, The Huffington Post announced the relaunch of HuffPost Gay Voices as HuffPost Queer Voices. Gay Voices originally launched in 2011, but as Noah Michelson, editorial director of Queer Voices states, “A lot has changed since then from marriage equality sweeping the nation and parts of the world to Laverne Cox gracing the cover of Time…
Today the House Oversight Committee released a series of astonishing internal documents revealing the greed behind former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli’s decision to increase by 5,000 percent the cost of the life-saving drug Daraprim. Daraprim is a crucial treatment for many pregnant women and people living with HIV. Last fall, then-Turing CEO Martin Shkreli…
The non-discrimination bill, SB 344, will not advance in the Indiana Senate. Although it was previously scheduled for a second hearing today, according to the bill’s author, the legislation will not be considered and will therefore fail to meet the required deadline this year. The legislation was an attempt to address the damning evidence that…
Adele has made it clear that she does not want to be associated with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. According to a CNN Wire report Adele’s “Skyfall” is part of the Republican’s pre-rally playlist and Trump has also taken the stage recently to the Grammy Award-winning artist’s hit “Rolling in the Deep.” But she never…
Whichever GOP candidate emerges as the winner of tonight’s Iowa caucuses, they spell danger for LGBT equality. In the final days of the race for Iowa, each of the GOP frontrunners — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have launched fresh attacks on LGBT people in a last-ditch effort to score conservative cred…
San Diego Musical Theatre takes us ‘behind the curtain’ for some rehearsal room interviews with the cast of Ragtime. Watch as the cast speak passionately about the production and the relevance this story has for today. Ragtime is a sweeping musical portrait of early 20th century America telling the story of three families in the…
In a bid to woo the evangelical vote Ted Cruz wheeled out Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Sunday, to warm up the crowd ahead of his address. CNN Wire reported that Robertson made a forceful case to voters that the Texas senator could restore the U.S. to biblical principles and called gay marriage “evil” and “wicked.”…
ATLANTA – Today, The Leadership Conference Education Fund will release its report, Striking a Balance: Advancing Civil and Human Rights While Preserving Religious Liberty, documenting how the religious arguments commonly used today against LGBT equality have been used to oppose the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and equality, racial integration, inter-racial marriage, immigration, the Americans…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has proposed a new rule change that will lift the “regulatory prohibition that categorically excludes all treatment of gender dysphoria,” thereby extending crucially needed medical care to transgender service members, veterans, and military family members covered under Tricare. The proposed change would not include surgical care which remains prohibited…
Free HIV testing is now available at The Center at the following times. Monday–Friday: 9am-9pm (last test at 8pm) Saturday: 10am-2pm (last test at 1pm) Friday Only Early Test: 12 noon-4pm (last test at 3pm) Couples Testing: 4pm-9pm (last test at 8pm) Both anonymous and confidential testing are available. With an anonymous test, medical staff…
