Dear Ms. Moreno: I was appalled by your recent post concerning those who do not agree with the decisions of the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) and you. You do not respect the community that you are supposed to represent, and worse, you have hurled a gay slur. I think your post needs to be completely…
Love is love — no matter the couple’s gender, orientation or identity. That’s the statement Brittny Drye, the editor-in-chief of website and digital magazine Love Inc., is hoping to make with the publication’s latest cover, reports the Huffington Post. Androgynous model Dylan Stephens graces the cover in a caped Inbal Dror wedding gown, looking positively…
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari in cases from four states regarding state bans on marriage for same-sex couples. In due time, the highest court in the land will be asked to decide whether the U.S. Constitution allows for states to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples by…
Welcome to 2015! Just like you, San Diego LGBT Weekly is making significant changes in 2015. As you know, the publishing business is forever changing as new technologies affect how our readers access our content. LGBT Weekly is the only publication serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community that has a print edition, Web…
http://youtu.be/R0cuGgXd8sE In a first, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his wife Lilibet released a holiday message to men and women of the Defense Department last week that included an image of MM2 2nd Class Jerrel Revels’ proposal to his boyfriend Dylan Kirchner. Watch he video above.
Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week. Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose…
As 2014 draws to a close many in our community gather to celebrate the season. That celebration may be in the form of a religious gathering or simply a party with those you love to share festive food and drink. At this time of year everyone becomes reflective because the season gives us the opportunity…
A thank you to Stampp Corbin Dear Editor, This is just a personal expression of appreciation for your editorial “I Can’t Breathe” (San Diego LGBT Weekly, Issue 162). As an eighty-one-year old activist, who has worked on race/class/gender/LGBT issues for fifty years and who finds that (despite spurts like Brown vs. Board of Education and gay…
Welsh relatives of US whistleblower Chelsea Manning have made claims that she was “tortured” by US authorities, reports Pink News. Following the release of a CIA report into torture last week, relatives of the 26 year old army Private – who was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks –…
