In a letter that has quickly become a viral sensation, a father has penned a heartfelt letter to his daughter after he learned that she kicked out her son out of the house simply because he is gay. The letter, which first appeared on the FCKH8.com’s Facebook page reads as follows: Dear Christine: I’m disappointed…
Lebanon has censored a French film depicting homosexuality and a local short film about the tradition of temporary marriage among some Shiite Muslims, film festival organizers said Thursday. The Beirut International Film Festival said it had been informed by officials that L’inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake), a thriller by Alain Guiraudie about two men who…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation (SD Literary Foundation) is celebrating its first year Saturday, Nov. 9. The foundation—the first of its kind in the country to focus on work by LGBT artists of color—was founded last November by Caleb Rainey. What was initially conceived as a book club has grown…
LOS ANGELES – The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will present a special night of programming focusing on the conversation around being gay in America Sunday, Oct. 27. Oprah’s Next Chapter leads off the night (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) and will feature an in-depth conversation with Oprah and popular gay celebrities including comedienne Wanda Sykes, Modern Family…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Woven LLC, the Oklahoma City-based company that provides resources to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has announced that its Web site, livewoven.com, will launch Oct. 11. Woven founder and CEO Melinda Olbert, who chose Oct. 11 as the company’s launch date, said, “With October 11th being National Coming Out…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The Pacific Justice Institute is warning parents to take immediate action to prevent their children from being blindsided by explicit and highly objectionable material during LGBT History Month, which began Oct. 1. A patchwork of schools, districts, and individual teachers across the country are expected to promote LGBT History Month to students during October. The leading…
NEW YORK — Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News have announced an esteemed panel of eight individual and impartial judges for the 2014 Multicultural TV Leadership Awards, being presented Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 during the Multicultural TV Summit in New York City at the Grand Hyatt. The list of judges includes a leading religious leader from the African American community,…
STOCKHOLM — Live and Let Love is a message to the Russian LGBT-people that they are not alone, but also an urging to Russian leaders to choose love instead of hate and fear when making laws to rule over people’s lives, their human rights, and above all, their love. Oct. 6, Live and Let Love will…
NEW YORK ― Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) is launching the National Equality Action Team (NEAT), a coalition of almost 50 local, state and national organizations and individual organizers mobilizing volunteers to win the freedom to marry in states with active marriage equality campaigns. Volunteers are able to sign up on the NEAT website to join events near…
SAN FRANCISCO — How to Survive a Plague tells the story of two coalitions, ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), whose fearless activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving…
