SACRAMENTO — The California Legislative LGBT Caucus will celebrate June 2017 as Pride Month with the adoption of House Resolution 41 during Assembly Floor Session and Senate Resolution 46 during Senate Floor Session Monday, June 19. As part of the ceremony, the Caucus will honor 10 LGBT individuals and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus…
We had every intention of being homebodies this year. No travel at all, just a year to save our pennies and get grounded. It’s been delicious. After several months of staying in our little coastal home, my mind is sharper, my sleep schedule is approaching normal, and I’ve got a good start on my next…
NEW YORK— By acting out scenarios commonly seen in the clinic, real-life transgender actors can help residents learn to provide more sensitive care to people with a different gender identity than the one they were assigned at birth. This is the main finding of a study published online June 15 in the Journal of Graduate…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Commerce has excluded sexual orientation and gender identity in their 2017 Equal Employment Opportunity statement. Thursday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross emailed a statement to department employees outlining the agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, which read: “The Department of Commerce does not tolerate behavior, harassment, discrimination or prejudice based on…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today released research on Alex Jones, the founder of the debunked InfoWars Web site, who will appear on the next episode of NBC’s “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly.” Jones is known for falsely calling the Sandy Hook massacre a “giant hoax” and claiming the Aurora mass shooting was a “false flag,”…
AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB 3859 into law — a patently discriminatory bill which allows child welfare organizations, including adoption and foster care agencies, to turn away qualified Texans seeking to care for a child in need, including LGBTQ couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Lambda Legal officially announced the opening of its first-ever Washington office at an annual event hosted at the Newseum, and previewed ambitious plans for its soon-to- launch $100 million campaign effort to oppose and derail escalating attempts by the Trump Administration to unravel LGBT rights. The Washington office is being led…
thursday, june 15 Melissa Villaseñor A creator of many, Melissa Villaseñor is an impressionist, stand-up comedian of 10 years, actor, musician and graphic artist. You may have seen her on NBC’s Saturday Night Live or as a top 16 finalist on Season 6 of America’s Got Talent or heard her voices on Cartoon Network’s Adventure…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) blasted disturbing revelations made by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a hearing held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. When asked by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) about atrocities committed against gay and bisexual men in Chechnya, Sec. Tillerson admitted that he has not raised the issue at…
For a while now, Mr Smiley has been ensuring that the Steam Room Stories guys don’t show off too much. In the latest episode the guys – Evan Ayers, Ray Tezanos and Ryan Larson – decide to try cover their manhood with a variety of different emojis but their fun soon upsets Mr Smiley. Refusing…
