WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) pushed for a vote in the House on the bipartisan Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The House majority has blocked a vote on the ENDA bill passed by the Senate last year. Davis and her colleagues signed a…
DETROIT – Tapper’s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry stamp its mark in its 37th anniversary with the arrival of a new wedding jewelry collection from LGBT designer Rony Tennenbaum. Tapper’s, Michigan’s most trusted jeweler since 1977, is expanding its demographic reach and marketing to include the LGBT community by adding a new wedding & engagement jewelry collection created to…
Former Spice Girl Mel B gets detailed with Larry King on a recent episode of his Emmy nominated series Larry King Now about the season finale of NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent, (AGT) what ended her band’s reign of global girl power, her path to success post-Scary Spice and life as a workaholic mother….
NEW YORK — New York Blood Center’s Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI) Laboratory of Social and Behavioral Sciences has received a three-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to develop and test an HIV self-testing intervention for young, Black, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. This…
BANGLADESH — Bangladesh says it will veto the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) proposal to provide rights for gay and lesbian people, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “It goes against our values. Like many other countries including those Muslim and Christian, we opposed it,” Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the UN Abdul Momen told the Dhaka Tribune….
SAN FRANCISCO – As the California Department of Education goes into its public process to update the state’s K-12 History-Social Science Framework, the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History has released Making the Framework FAIR: California History-Social Science Framework Proposed LGBT Revisions Related to the FAIR Education Act. In 2011, the FAIR…
Sept. 27, nearly 4,000 civilians will accept the Bootcamp Challenge 2014 at San Diego’s Marine Corps Recruit Depot during Fleet Week. Move over, Tough Mudder. Step aside Spartans, this is one race that allows entrants to compete on the same obstacle course that tests our U.S. Marine recruits. This is the thirteenth year for Bootcamp…
San Diego State University (SDSU) was selected for the second consecutive year as a recipient of the INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion — SDSU…
SAN DIEGO — The Scott Peters for Congress campaign has launched its third TV ad highlighting the stark difference between Peters and Carl DeMaio when it comes to fighting for equal pay for equal work for women. As the ad points out, DeMaio “is funded by Tea Party extremists who oppose pay fairness for women. DeMaio’s pledged…
Members of the Bolashak national movement and social activists in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, have combined their efforts to help staunch the spread of gay propaganda as well as ban same-sex couples from adoption, work in the public sector or service in the Kazakh army. Dauren Babamuratov, the public face of the anti-gay backlash, has…
