Next week, Russia’s State Duma will decide on whether to ban people from coming out as gay. GayStarNews reports that two senior Russian Communist MPs Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev have presented a bill calling for people who come out as LGBTI to serve up to 15 days behind bars. Any public displays of affection…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. —A new study provides clinical data to support growing evidence that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more prevalent in children and adolescents with gender dysphoria than in the general population. Among youths seen at a pediatric gender clinic who were screened for ASD, 23% possibly or likely had Asperger syndrome, according to…
Teen Wolf actor Charlie Carver came out yesterday on Instagram. Carver shared five emotional posts on Instagram, explaining his decision to come out and to live openly and authentically, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. Each post was a picture of an image that read, “Be who you needed when you were younger.” “As…
LA JOLLA, Calif. – La Jolla Playhouse announces its 2016 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour production: Alice Chan, co-written by Robert Lee and Tony Award-winning actor and 2014/2015 Playhouse Artist-in-Residence BD Wong, who will also direct the play. The piece will tour schools throughout San Diego County February 1 – April 1, 2016. Commissioned by…
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – In an industry that is categorically dominated by males, female DJs have been progressively multiplying in the nation’s clubs, bringing their own unique sounds and individual talent. Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend has continuously been championing this blossoming movement, year after year, proving these DJs can more than rise to the occasion….
The City of San Diego declared the vacant Haggen grocery store building at 2235 University Ave. in North Park “a public nuisance” and ordered the company to clean up the site within 10 days, according to the notice posted Jan. 11 at the closed store. Haggen declared bankruptcy in 2015 and closed all of its…
Grindr, the hugely popular mobile hook-up site have announced that they have sold a majority stake in their company to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech company, reports Business Insider. The deal, valued at $155 million, is the second announcement this week of a Chinese company taking over a recognizable American brand with Dalian Wang’s…
The movie The Danish Girl, which has received international acclaim, with multiple BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations has been banned in Qatar. Situated on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula bordering Saudi Arabia, the Islamic nation of Qatar has not taken well to the Tom Hooper film. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar and trans people aren’t…
GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has come up with another anti-LGBT analogy as he campaigns in Iowa. Right Wing Watch reported that Santorum told Iowa radio host Simon Conway that allowing states to expand marriage to same-sex couples is like saying “the states have the right to redefine the chemical equation for water, it can…
In its 26th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted for they used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun as the Word of the Year for 2015. They was recognized by the society for its emerging use as a pronoun to refer to a known person, often as a conscious choice by…
