Warning: Video contains explicit content. Real-life exchanges from mobile dating app Grindr are at the center of a powerful new awareness campaign spotlighting HIV stigma and its effects on the LGBTI+ community. An initiative of the HIV Foundation Queensland (HIVFQ) in partnership with Queensland Positive People (QPP), the Real Conversations of Grindr campaign started as…
St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego Pride, and San Diego’s interfaith religious leaders will celebrate the historical connection between LGBT people of faith and affirming communities, as well as the origins of San Diego Pride in 1974 with the first “Pride with Purpose and Pride with Prayer” event of Pride week. The event will take…
EUGENE, Ore. — College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, has published a ranking of the 50 Best Colleges for LGBTQ Students. Choosing a college is an overwhelming process in and of itself. But for LGBTQ identified folks, the task is all the more intimidating. To succeed academically it’s important to…
“It’s finally here and I’m so excited,” author Jake Biondi said of his seventh Boystown book, which he released on July 7, 2017. “The fans’ wait is over and they can now discover what happened to their favorite characters whose lives were hanging in the balance at the end of the sixth book.” The seventh…
Eric Hufford aka Sister Iona Dubble-Wyde, founder of San Diego Remembers, Blue Dog Democrats of San Diego and Turn Your Back on Demaio, wrote this Letter to the Editor in response to Nicole Murray Ramirez’s July 6 commentary: “Will LGBT radicals shut down Pride parade?” Dear Sirs, Ma’ams or whatever you identify as, I am…
In this political climate hate speech is becoming common use. And there has been an uptick of the use of the n-word, even from the mouths of people one would not expect. While it came as no surprise to most people of color in Boston when in May Orioles outfielder Adam Jones said Fenway fans hurled…
https://youtu.be/zz_S_xsA94c WASHINGTON – During congressional testimony on Wednesday night, Duncan Hunter made a series of disturbing remarks concerning trans men and women serving in the military. The five-term incumbent, currently under a congressional investigation for allegedly using tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for family vacations to Hawaii, private school tuition…
Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, president of San Diego Democrats for Equality, wrote this Letter to the Editor in response to Nicole Murray Ramirez’s July 6 commentary: “Will LGBT radicals shut down Pride parade?” Dear Editor, I am writing today in response to the commentary by City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez, a person who has been an ally…
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met Friday during the G20 summit in Germany. While Russian President Putin denies any attacks on LGBTQ men in Chechnya, President Trump has simply ignored it all together. In fact, his staff even confirmed a couple weeks ago that they aren’t sure if the president was even “aware” of…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Equality California Institute have announced its 2017 class of Equality California-Comcast Fellows, and the commencement of the program’s seventh year. The Equality California-Comcast Fellowship is a leadership development program in which six exceptional LGBT or ally college students are placed in the offices of California legislators or other government officials. Fellows…
