Indiana’s Senate Bill 66 – an anti-LGBT “Super RFRA” that would create sweeping exemptions encouraging people to pick and choose which laws they’re going to follow, has reportedly died in committee. The proposal would have allowed anyone who claims a religious exemption the right to discriminate against LGBT Hoosiers, visitors and other minorities. The legislation…
SACRAMENTO – California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) has announced human trafficking reforms that would for the first time in California, treat the buying and selling of sex separately, increasing penalties for those purchasing sex while decriminalizing prostitution for minors who are by definition being victimized. Assembly Bill 1708 would require a minimum fine and…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced that the 10th annual Dining Out For Life® will take place Thursday, April 28. Dining Out For Life® is designed to fill some of San Diego’s best restaurants and bars – which have generously agreed to donate 25-100 percent of their food and liquor…
WASHINGTON – United We Dream, the national network of immigrant youth, has just released its “No More Closets” report, the largest national survey of the LGBTQ immigrant community ever conducted. The report tells the collective and individual stories of some 461 individuals who self identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and who are…
A brand new survey from Visit Indy is set to be released on Thursday that shows Indiana lost as much as $60 million in convention revenue alone because of last year’s disastrous and divisive Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) fight. As reported by the Associated Press late last night, “12 out-of-state groups were surveyed and…
https://youtu.be/zp-TsqTXNbg The LGBT Academy of Recording Arts (LARA) has presented an online presentation of the nominees and winners of the 9th OUTmusic Awards on www.outmusicawards.com. The Nominee categories spanned across 21 categories from members of the Academy around the world. Below are some of the night’s biggest winners: Theme Song for the 9th OUTmusic Awards…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) expressed outrage at a vote by the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee in favor of discriminatory legislation targeting transgender students. By a vote of 10-3 this morning, the committee voted to advance HB 1008 to the House floor. The legislation seeks to prevent transgender students in…
LOS ANGELES — Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the LA Film Festival, has selected 30 filmmakers for Project Involve, the organization’s signature diversity mentorship program which fosters the careers of talented filmmakers from communities traditionally underrepresented in the film industry. Film Independent also announced major new studio support…
Jewish groups have expressed outrage that a Friday evening Shabbat service and program was disrupted by protesters at the Creating Change Conference in Chicago this past weekend. The National LGBTQ Task Force, which hosts the annual conference, had canceled the long planned reception last week, but reinstated it after LGBTQ and Jewish leadership across the…
NEW YORK — The United Nations human rights office has expressed concern over recent developments in Malawi, after the spokesperson of one of the country’s main political parties recently called for gay and lesbian people to be killed, describing them as “worse than dogs.” The spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for…
