NEW YORK, N.Y. – Dekkoo.com’s third original series, “I’m Fine” debuts today on Dekkoo. Watch the trailer above. Set in West Hollywood, “I’m Fine” tells the story of Nate, who just broke up with his boyfriend – BUT IS TOTALLY FINE! – and in doing so takes a fresh, honest, and humorous look at gay…
Today, Fox News let go of their long-time host Bill O’Reilly. According to media reports a slew of sexual-harassment claims scared off “O’Reilly Factor” advertisers in droves. For most of his career, O’Reilly was staunchly against LGBT rights. After the Supreme Court ruled against DOMA and Prop 8, he insisted “I don’t buy into the…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Tuesday, the Alabama State Senate and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh passed the anti-LGBTQ H.B. 24. HRC Alabama has called upon Gov. Kay Ivey to not sign this bill, which would most harm the children in Alabama’s child welfare system. The bill, deceptively titled the “Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act,” would…
MUMBAI, India — For the fifth year in a row, Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will be raising funds to hold the eighth edition of South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival through crowdfunding. The global campaign to raise funds was launched on India’s leading crowdfunding portal – Wishberry. India’s only mainstream LGBTQ film festival…
TORONTO – With recent reports of abductions, detentions, enforced disappearances, torture and deaths targeting gay and bisexual men in Chechnya, a Canadian non-profit human rights organization have announced an emergency response plan to assist those in danger. Founded in 2006, Rainbow Railroad actively assists LGBTQ people escape danger through its global network of safe routes. “Since…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. SAN DIEGO — The board of directors of the San Diego LGBT Community Center and The Center’s CEO Dr. Delores Jacobs have announced, in back-to-back statements posted on Facebook, that she will not seek…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), a leading non-partisan non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. and around the world, announced today that CDC-funded local jurisdictions will join its membership—a first in the organization’s 25-plus year history. Public health…
San Diego’s 14th annual Transgender Day of Empowerment ceremony was held Friday April 14 at Hillcrest’s LGBT Center. An estimated 200 + audience heard local professionals, community organizers, and youth leaders bring home again and again the message “We are here to help make it easier for you”. Scholarships were awarded to give transyouth the…
RALEIGH, N.C. — The NCAA announced today that they will be returning championship events to sites in North Carolina for the first time since the state passed sweeping anti-LGBT legislation in 2016. The original law, HB 2, was replaced last month by a new law, HB 142, which continues to discriminate against transgender people. HB…
A young motorist who struck and killed a retired attorney in National City Feb. 13 was released from jail Monday night after being sentenced to time he has already served. Robert Turner Gustafson, 81, was an attorney for 54 years and practiced law in Chula Vista Superior Court – ironically, where the motorist who struck…
