The 2015 Academy Awards nominations, which were announced this morning, highlighted films and actors that have focused on LGBT equality, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. “The Imitation Game,” a film about Alan Turing, is nominated for eight awards, including best picture. The film’s stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, were also nominated. Last…
WASHINGTON – Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) confirmed that MillerCoors Chairman Pete Coors had withdrawn from participating in an event hosted by the group, Legatus. The event and its organizers have been under fire recently over the organization’s discriminatory and dangerous positions on LGBT people. HRC had been in touch with representatives of MillerCoors,…
Alliance San Diego has announced the program participants for the 27th annual All Peoples Celebration honoring the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The All Peoples Celebration will take place Monday, Jan. 19, at the Balboa Park Activity Center. Doors…
2015 is here and Steam Room Stories is back with a brand new episode. Kicking off the year is Sex Score where the guys talk about keeping track of their conquests. Steam Room Stories hunks Joe Fidler, Michael Poursh, Chris Reid, Adam Bucci and Tamario Fletcher discuss the amount of people they’ve slept with. During…
Toronto — Pink Triangle Press (PTP), Canada’s leading gay and lesbian publisher, today announced a major strategic re-positioning to an all-digital publishing company. As a result, next month PTP will close print editions of the Xtra gay and lesbian community newspapers in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. PTP will focus on developing its journalism website DailyXtra.com…
The 43rd annual Imperial Court de San Diego Coronation Military Ball will be held Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. at the historic Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego. The 42nd Reign and the Board of Directors of The Imperial Court de San Diego, have raised over $100,000 dollars that benefit community organizations…
San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation’s North County LGBT Book Fair is back and better than ever! The Fair will be held Saturday, Jan. 31 from 10 a.m. -6 p.m. at the North County LGBTQ Resource Center, 510 North Coast Highway in Oceanside. The fair will have over 300 titles, a massive young adult fiction…
CULVER CITY, Calif. — Writer/director Ira Sachs and Love is Strange stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, have teamed up with Tie The Knot as guest designers, creating their own specialty bow ties inspired by the film. In Sony Pictures Classics’ poignant, modern-day love story, debuting today from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Ben (Lithgow) and George…
British supermarket chain, Tesco, has come under fire after one of its cashiers was overheard by a lesbian couple advising that “all gays should die alone.” Not content to leave well enough alone, the employee was then heard by a second couple to have added,”[Homosexuals] should not have babies.” Natalie Rivans and her girlfriend told…
Charlotte-area teacher Lonnie Billiard was fired from Charlotte Catholic High School after announcing on his personal Facebook page last fall that he planned to marry his partner. Billiard had been a teacher at the school for 15 years, and continued working there as a long-term substitute after he retired in 2012. Billiard’s firing was reported…
