Halloween isn’t for another few weeks, but it might as well be now. Grocery store shelves have been stocked with trick or treat candy since Labor Day, homes are a tangle of orange lights and fake cobwebs and pumpkin patches are popping up all along Interstate 8. Even galleries are getting in on the action….
Retirees live on a fixed income, so it is extremely important to get the biggest bang for those bucks. One way to do that is to confirm that you have the best Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. Retirees can boost their spendable income by reducing their Medicare costs with the right drug plan that…
Today anti-bullying advocate and Spirit Day ambassador Katy Butler launched a Change.org petition asking President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney to join GLAAD and millions of Americans by wearing purple Oct. 19, for Spirit Day. Participants wearing purple on this day to stand against bullying and show support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
Former NBA basketball player, John Amaechi, will speak at Framingham State University tomorrow night as part of the school’s ongoing “President’s Distinguished Lecture Series.” Amaechi, the first NBA player to come out as gay, will speak about the need for equality in professional sport. Amaechi, who has been vocal about gay rights in sports said,…
(CNN) – American schools recognize African American History Month and Women’s History Month. This year, for the first time, two school districts are celebrating LGBT History Month, which started seven years ago and kicked off this year Oct. 1. The Broward County school district in Florida signed a resolution in September in support of Lesbian,…
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today released the annual Where We Are on TV report; a comprehensive review of scripted LGBT primetime characters in the upcoming 2012-2013 television season. After a decrease last year, the number of regular lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters on broadcast networks has risen to the highest ever…
A Web site launched to track the use of homophobic words on Twitter has revealed some startling statistics. NoHomophobes.com launched by The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) at the University of Alberta in July has tracked over 2.5 million uses of the word “faggot,” nearly 1 million uses of “so gay” or…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Hundreds of University of Notre Dame employees are urging the Roman Catholic school to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination clause. The campus newspaper, the Observer, ran a full-page ad last week that was signed by 366 school employees urging Notre Dame “to make the protection, recognition, and equal treatment” of…
Well, I’m off to Canada this weekend (more on that in an upcoming column). Just ugly This has been one of the most ugly and negative mayoral races in our city’s history and no candidate for mayor has been so disliked or rejected by GLBT, Latino, African American and Asian leaders and voters as Carl…
politically aware BY JOEL TRAMBLEY When I moved from Atlanta to San Francisco, I missed my first chance to vote. I was able to register when I got my California driver’s license, but when election day came around, I didn’t know where my precinct was and I was a medical intern, working from 6:30 a.m….
