One week before the St. Petersburg Gay Pride parade, scheduled this year for June 25, Russian anti-gay organizers staged a rally in St. Petersburg petitioning city hall to ban LGBT groups from city-sanctioned activity. The violently anti-gay rally, which involved participants draping a coffin in a rainbow flag and then destroying and discarding it in…
Nicole Murray Ramirez, a long time San Diego Latino and LGBT rights activist, has been named the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender person of the year by city Assemblymember Toni Atkins. Atkins explained that San Diego’s LGBT community has relied upon Nicole Murray Ramirez over the years and noted the city’s progress by pointing out…
Another presidential hopeful has joined GOP candidates Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty as a victim of the “glitter bandits.” The most recent politician to be “glittered” is Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. According to the Star Tribune, Bachmann was the subject of a glitter shower Saturday after delivering a speech at the RightOnline Conference in…
Jarrett Barrios, Executive Director of GLAAD, has resigned due to the cotroversy concerning his letter of support for AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile. AT&T is a major contributor to GLAAD. Barrios has been the head of the organization for two years and was reputedly forced to resign by the Board of Directors. Updates to come….
A Safeway employee at a D.C. retail location in the Southwest area of the city has been fired for directing homosexual slurs at a same-sex couple last week. NBC Washington reports that Jason Morgan and Brendan Harrington, Southwest residents and regular Safeway customers, were at the checkout counter when a cashier used an offensive slur…
What began as an isolated attack on Newt Gingrich’s anti-gay politics has become a vigilante movement in defense of LGBT and reproductive rights – this time in pink. Nancy Mancias and Chelsea Byers, members of the anti-war activist group CODEPINK, took a page out of activist Nick Espinosa’s playbook yesterday when they showered Republican presidential…
The Associated Press reports today that the United Nation’s main forum on human rights has voted in favor of creating a panel to review anti-LGBT discrimination worldwide. The forum voted late yesterday on a groundbreaking resolution presented by South Africa to establish the LGBT anti-discrimination panel. Among the 47 Human Rights Council members, 23…
Berkeley, California-based rapper Lil B unveiled the cover art that will accompany his provocatively titled new album yesterday, according to reports from MTV News. Lil B, who elected to call his new album “I’m Gay” despite criticism and backlash from other rap artists, fans and members of GLAAD, told MTV News that he hopes the…
Cynthia Nixon of “Sex and the City” and New York Ranger Sean Avery traveled to New York yesterday to lobby for the legalization of same-sex marriage. According to the New York Daily News, Nixon said the ‘feel’ of her visit was different than when the bill was rejected two years ago, and explained there has…
Comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has issued an apology in the wake of community outrage inspired by anti-gay comments made during a comedy show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium last weekend. The Human Rights Campaign reports that Morgan, who has encountered criticism in the past for his at-times controversial stage humor, reportedly went on…
