A group called the “Commitment Campaign” is urging LGBT activists and allies to shift the focus of gay marriage away from equality and toward the value of commitment. According to USA Today, “advocates have long made the case that legalizing marriage for gays and lesbians is a matter of equality, but those who frame the…
Seventy major organizations including Google, Microsoft, Xerox, Time Warner Cable, New Balance, Aetna, Levi Strauss & Co., and more have banded together to file and amicus brief in Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ (GLAD) DOMA Challenge in the suit of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. The historical brief illuminates the negative impact that…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched a new video campaign that features Cory Booker, Mo’Nique, and Julian Bond in its latest public campaign for marriage equality, and that’s no accident, according to The New York Times. The videos are part of the Americans for Marriage Equality campaign, which aims to educate Americans about same-sex…
A lesbian couple in Parker, Colorado are victims of a hate crime after the women found “Kill the Gay” spray-painted on their garage door. According to Colorado’s CW, the couple had an ongoing dispute with their homeowners association, after the H.O.A. said the couple had failed to pick up after their dog. Another neighbor told…
The FAIR Education Act (SB 48) requires all schools in California to include LGBT history as a part of its curriculum. Despite the overwhelming benefits of including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education throughout the state’s schools, an anti-gay group called Stop SB 48 has aimed to put an end to the state’s initiative. Previously,…
Due in part to her effort to support LGBT teens, Cathleen Galgiani (D) has confirmed to The Stockton Record that she is a lesbian. Galgiani hopes her open sexuality will send a positive message to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens that it’s okay to be homosexual. “It sickens me that young people would think…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students will be in good hands at Georgetown University after former National Football League Commissioner Paul J. Tagliabue and his wife donated $1 million to create a new program to assist LGBT students. The money will start a new LGBT program called the Tagliabue Initiative for LGBT Life: Fostering Formation…
At its first general meeting as San Diego Democrats for Equality (SDDE), the former San Diego Democratic Club endorsed the campaign of Congressman Bob Filner to be San Diego’s next Mayor. “The club looked at the questionnaires submitted by several candidates, listened to the two who attended the meeting and considered all of the records,”…
A gay student at Wigwam Creek Middle School is seeking public action to help put an end to verbal harassment and bullying at his school after the districts superintendent has refused to take action on the matter. Pleas for long-term bullying solutions from the boy’s family and LGBT support groups including Gays and Lesbians United…
Patrick Henry High School in Del Cerro has elected a lesbian student as its Homecoming King, San Diego News10 reports. “They were chanting my name and it was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had,” said newly-crowned Homecoming King Rebecca Arellano. Hailey Adams, Arellano’s girlfriend of two years, ran for Patrick Henry High…
