Asal Choi joins Azlar in Uzbek’s nascent queer pop music scene (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/FznR4FfXHkY Despite a staunchly anti-gay government, the anonymous singer known only by the title of his latest song Asal Choi (“Honey Tea”) has released another music video which Uzbekistan’s ‘security services’ have strongly recommended the nation’s pop music video sites pull immediately. The video shows what appears to be a mild cross-dressing crooner (at least…

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Uniting LGBT bi-national families

The recent Supreme Court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has far reaching ramifications for many, especially for LGBT U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and their non-citizen spouses. Until now, these couples have been barred from obtaining immigration status for their non-citizen spouses. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says the DHS…

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New LGBT film ‘Laurence Anyways’ opens in San Diego July 5 (VIDEO)

The Media Arts Center San Diego is presenting, Laurence Anyways, a drama that charts 10 years in a relationship of a male-to-female transexual’s relationship with her lover at their new 48-seat movie theatre in North Park running from the July 5-11. Starring Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways tells the story of an impossible…

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General Mills celebrates LGBT Pride with #LuckyToBe campaign (VIDEO)

General Mills is celebrating gay-pride month with one of its most famous breakfast cereals. The Huffington Post reports that the Minnesota food conglomerate is bringing Lucky Charms out of the closet. The “magically delicious” cereal is serving as the face of the new #LuckyToBe campaign which encourages people with Pride to Tweet and post online their reasons for…

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Bi-national same-sex couples to be treated the same as opposite-sex couples in immigration petitions

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling last week on DOMA, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has directed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to treat immigration visa petitions of bi-national same-sex spouses the same as those of an opposite-sex spouse. Napolitano’s statement follows: “After last week’s decision by the Supreme Court holding that Section 3…

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