MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has demanded that the La Feria Independent School District allow Jeydon Loredo, a transgender student and senior at La Feria High School, to appear in his high school yearbook wearing a tuxedo or risk a federal lawsuit against the Texas school district. The demand was made…
SAN DIEGO – Urban Pride – San Diego, along with Common Ground Theatre (CGT), in collaboration with San Diego Continuing Education, will host a special LGBT Night at the Theatre for the production of Christmas Is Comin’ Uptown – Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Educational Cultural Complex Theater. The theater is located at…
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) is singing a happy tune thanks to a matching grant from the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF) totaling more than $10,000. “Ticket sales only cover about half of our expenses, so we are incredibly grateful for the help of groups like the San Diego…
Despite repeated attempts, Apple Inc. has still refused to change one of its definitions of the word ‘gay’ which is listed as (informally) ‘stupid’ or ‘foolish’ as in: “That’s so gay.” The brouhaha started when 15-year-old Becca Gorman of Sudbury, Mass. discovered the definition in the latest Apple operating system, i0S7. “At first, I was kind…
SAN DIEGO — Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) recently achieved accreditation by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and is now interviewing candidates for its new Family Medicine Residency Program. FHCSD will accept six residents per year for the three year residency training program. The training program was made possible by…
NEW ORLEANS — King of Condoms, a multi-tiered IRB-approved study conducted by investigators from the University of Kentucky, in association with ProofPilot, will launch today in New Orleans. The King of Condoms campaign is both a social media marketing program and a street-based education program designed to protect young African American men who have sex with…
From Equality Matters comes their latest post on the anti-LGBT extremists behind the campaign to repeal the California law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Privacy for All Students, a coalition seeking to overturn a new law ensuring proper facilities access for transgender students in California, recently claimed that it has gathered enough…
Today the Hawaii state Senate passed marriage equality legislation, putting the Aloha State on track to become the next state where gay and lesbian couples can legally marry. The legislation now heads to the desk of Gov. Neil Abercrombie for signature. Sponsored by state Sen. Brickwood Galuteria in the state Senate and under the leadership of…
ARC Entertainment will be releasing Contest on DVD Dec. 17. Contest premiered on Cartoon Network Oct. 6 in conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Month in order to inspire an open discussion between kids, parents and educators about the issue of bullying. Cartoon Network’s Stop Bullying: Speak Up initiative continues to shed a light on this…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) called on Speaker John Boehner to quickly bring the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which recently passed the Senate in a bipartisan fashion, to the floor of the U.S. House for an up or down vote. The legislation would bar discrimination against LGBT Americans in the workplace. Casey,…
