JD Disalvatore, a prolific LGBT film and television producer and director and gay rights activist, died Thursday, Aug. 24 after a long battle with cancer. She was 51. A proud marching band trumpet player in Miami Palmetto Senior High, JD went on to study communications at Boston University, absorbing as much as she could from her creative…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — YWCA of San Diego County will present the 10th annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” fundraising walk Saturday, Oct. 14. Men, alongside women and children, are invited to walk a mile in heels through downtown San Diego County to increase awareness of domestic violence in the community and help end…
NMAC’s bi-annual HIV/STD Action Day Sept. 6 will bring together nearly 300 advocates and activists from around the nation to ask Congress to stop proposed deep federal budget cuts for HIV services. Action Day will take place the day before the opening of the U.S. Conference on AIDS in DC. “Scheduled a day before the 2017…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the National President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, Pedro J. Torres-Díaz, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted in late July of criminal contempt for failing to comply with a United States District Court Judge’s order to stop…
MARYLAND — The American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banning transgender service members from continuing to serve in the military or receiving medically necessary health care, and banning men and women who are transgender from enlisting. The lawsuit was filed…
Sunday night, Pink gave an inspiring speech about her daughter and self-acceptance while accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award during the MTV Video Music Awards. The star recalled a conversation she had with her daughter Willow, age 6, after her daughter said to her, “Mama … I’m the ugliest girl I know. I look…
OAKLAND, Calif. — National Nurses United is calling on the Trump Administration to withdraw its threat to terminate the highly successful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has enabled young people who came to the U.S. undocumented as children to remain in the U.S. The young people who have been protected from being…
Greece’s only LGBTQI helpline has re-opened after being closed for nearly a year. Gay Star News reports that 11528-By Your Side is a critical and unique helpline for Greece’s LGBTQI people with people from all over the country accessing its service. ‘Transphobia and homophobia of Greek society isn’t to be underestimated,’ 11528-By Your Side’s project…
LGBT advocacy groups have spoken out against the White House’s directive to carry out President Trump’s transgender military ban. The unprecedented policy indefinitely extends the ban on qualified transgender recruits from entering the military and rips away at least some medically necessary, transition-related health care from currently serving transgender troops. “This horrifying, vicious assault on thousands of…
NEW YORK N.Y. — Planned Parenthood has announced a multi-phase pilot program to build and expand its comprehensive HIV prevention and education efforts. Gilead Sciences, Inc, a research-based biopharmaceutical company, awarded the $900,000 grant to support and expand efforts of HIV prevention and education, including the integration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, at Planned Parenthood affiliate…
