Expanding their efforts to keep citizens safe on San Diego roadways, UC San Diego’s Training, Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) program announced today that they are launching a new distracted driving education project called Just Drive – Take Action Against Distraction, a one hour class free of charge offered to businesses in San…
In a stinging rebuke, officials at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore, Md., have placed its Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on probation until fall of 2015 after a student complained that he was rejected because he is gay. Brian Stewart, 20, a former White House intern, filed the complaint in late October after…
WASHINGTON, — Annise Parker, mayor of Houston and member of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, will speak at National Press Club luncheon Dec. 10. In a wide-ranging speech, she’ll talk about doing good in politics, making the energy capital of the U.S. clean and sustainable and fighting discrimination. Parker, a Democrat and one of the first openly…
NEW YORK, — The NFL has had more than its share of negative press this season. The league has been under fire for allegations of downplaying brain injury dangers for its players, and more recently has come under fire for at least one team allegedly tolerating bullying among its players. In addition to all this, a…
International LGBT Business Expo, Latin America’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) travel business conference and consumer expo will return to its birth town, Puerto Vallarta, from June 12-14, 2014 with the host hotel being Casa Magna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA. More than 400 international, Mexican and local business who are interested in targeting the LGBT market…
The Arizona Technology Council, the state’s largest trade association for technology businesses and a longtime leader of the technology community, has announced it would add issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality to its lobbying platform agenda. The Human Rights Campaign, praised the decision, noting the growing support for issues of equality in the…
In a move that reflects both the region’s progress on LGBT acceptance and the mainstreaming of our histories in public museums, the Missouri History Museum has announced its first collection of LGBT artifacts, according to the online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Sometimes things are happening right before our very eyes,” said museum curator…
Last month, Stockholm Pride won Gold and People’s Choice in the Lovie Awards for the much acclaimed campaign #GOWEST. Since the campaign was a protest against the LGBT-ban in Russia, Stockholm Pride had other plans for the heart shaped gold statuette. It was sent to president Vladimir Putin along with the inscription: To a man with a…
In their latest report Media Matters of America reveal that both CNN and MSNBC devoted significant coverage to the Obama administration’s commemoration of World AIDS Day Dec. 2. Fox News, on the other hand, spent less than 20 seconds acknowledging President Obama’s speech outlining significant new efforts to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. On World…
One of the top global touring acts of our time, having sold nearly 4 million tickets during her first 3 tours, Lady Gaga is hitting the road in support of her new album ARTPOP. Live Nation Global Touring announced today that Lady Gaga’s artRave: The ARTPOP Ball will begin May 4 in Ft. Lauderdale. The tour…
