SACRAMENTO – Equality California has announced that it intends to sponsor a bill authored by Assemblymember Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) that will ensure state veterans benefits are not denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) veterans discharged from the military solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. Sacramento Valley Veterans…
The small community of Fire Island was struck with nearly uncontrollable fires Monday night, requiring nearly 20 fire departments to help squelch the flames, reports Newsday. The fires were devastating to the small community and were difficult to contain due to the location of the island. The blaze is reported to have begun at Sip…
A lot of important issues are being discussed as part of the race for San Diego mayor, but often when I speak to groups in the LGBT community, I am asked about my position on one issue in particular – medical marijuana. Just as often, I see a look of surprise and skepticism when I…
ROME, Ga. – Shorter University has come under fire for adopting new faith statements that require all employees to, among other things, reject homosexuality. The new policy, described as a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” that all employees are required to sign states in point B.3, “I reject as acceptable all sexual activity not in agreement with…
BOSTON – Seventy businesses and organizations have filed a brief in federal court highlighting the harms to American companies caused by the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The amicus curiae brief – signed by a wide diversity of corporations from tech giants Microsoft and Google to consumer brands Nike and Starbucks – supports the…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a new video featuring civil rights pioneer and NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond as part of their Americans for Marriage Equality public-education campaign. “There are few who have so dramatically changed this country for the better like Dr. Julian Bond,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “We…
Aging has changed me to a point where many things I once enjoyed are now things I just can’t take. This includes much of the TV fare of today. For example, take those appalling Housewives. Most are rich (thanks to rarely, if ever, seen husbands) and seem to do nothing but shop and bitch, eat…
You simply could not resist. You always thought that getting a dog was something that required forethought. It was something you planned. Getting a dog was getting a best friend, a work-out companion, a burglar alarm or a child substitute; but a dog was not an impulse item. And then you saw that fur-baby. And…
Once again singer Kelly Clarkson has taken the opportunity to deny rumors she is lesbian. Appearing on The View, Clarkson admitted that she had never been in love and was finding it very difficult to date because of her busy work schedule. She believes this is the reason people accuse her of being a lesbian….
Roland Emmerich is a world-class movie director with many hits on his resume. Currently the director of the lavish Columbia Pictures Elizabethan action-drama Anonymous, Emmerich enjoys the distinction of having racked up worldwide box office receipts of more than $3 billion during his career. Born in Stuttgart, Germany Nov. 10, 1955, Emmerich extended his interest…
