A mom in Queensland, Australia has taken out a classified ad to show of support for her son, who just a week ago was a daughter known as Beth. The Courier-Mail reports that in the births section of the newspaper, Yolanda Bogert of Jimboomba placed a light-hearted birth retraction. “In 1995 we announced the arrival…
Director Mischa Kamp’s (Winky’s Horse) critically-acclaimed, award-winning gay romance Boys debuts across all digital platforms including iTunes and WolfeOnDemand beginning Jan. 6, before making its DVD debut Feb. 3 from Wolfe Video. In this beautiful and uplifting drama, two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their…
What a difference a decade makes. In 2004, Poland, a former Soviet bloc country, deeply conservative and deeply Roman Catholic, had just joined the European Union. Bans on gay pride marches were strictly enforced and homosexuality was a cultural taboo that dare not speak its name in public. Fast forward ten years and, as Poland…
On this World AIDS Day, Showtime is debuting a new documentary, The Last One, which shares the history of the AIDS Quilt and also educates the public about how HIV infection rates are climbing once again in both young and older people. Jim Halterman had the pleasure of chatting with activist Cleve Jones last week about…
The Center, Freedom to Marry and Equality California invite the community to a special book launch event for Marc Solomon’s Winning Marriage. In the book, Solomon shares with readers the strategy-setting and decision making tables in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. He reveals the inner-workings of the advocacy movement that…
Applications are now being accepted for the The Douglas P. Lathrop Scholarship for the Disabled, founded this past year to honor a greatly loved member of the LGBT and disability community. The Scholarship is available to students with a permanent mobility disability. Mobility impairment refers to the inability of a person to use one or…
Legendary Olympic diver and gold medalist Greg Louganis is bringing the global challenge of living with HIV to light. Teaming with the United Nations agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO) he introduces a series of video messages portraying discrimination and even deportation of HIV positive adults. Released today, World AIDS Day, the videos promote the…
In honor of World AIDS Day, HRC released the following statement by Jeff Krehely, Vice President and Chief Foundation Officer: “With significant medical breakthroughs since World AIDS Day was first conceived in 1987, our community should be well on the path toward ending HIV. Sadly, the reality is that incidence of HIV is on the…
Marisa Martin, writing for WND.com (formerly the apparently less gravitas-sounding World Net Daily), is wondering if the liberal wing of the Roman Catholic church, and with it, a large swatch of people who identify with the LGBT community, have found in the newest pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio – aka Pope Francis – an icon that…
Before a licensed physician will see the degree at the end of his or her educational road, they will, among others things, master complex subject matter, give up sleep and deal with a level of stress most Americans can’t possible fathom. They will also learn to be excellent communicators and, perhaps most importantly, convince others…
