The list of anti-LGBT speakers lining up to speak at the Family Research Council’s (FRC) Values Voter Summit next week is growing longer and longer. Among the confirmed speakers are included such anti-LGBT favorites as GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Sen. Rick Santorum and president of the American Family Association…
HOBART, Tasmania – Jim Wallace, the managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has stated that smoking is healthier than a homosexual lifestyle. Wallace made these remarks in a debate on gay marriage with Green leader Christine Milne at the University of Tasmania LawFest in Hobart this morning. Wallace, a strong opponent of same-sex…
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has honored Ellen DeGeneres by giving the out television personality a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony happened 11:30 a.m. PST today in Hollywood. Hollywood LAist reported that American Idol host Ryan Seacrest and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel both spoke at the ceremony, which comes just…
Nine men were arrested Saturday after yelling anti-gay slurs over bullhorns as they demonstrated at Southern Decadence in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The Times-Picayune reported that “street-preachers” Patrick O’Connell, 45, Rolando Igleasias, 31, Cesar Chavez, 22, Daniel Hoogerhuis, 26, Danny Guevera, 20, Larry Craft, 52, Montes Diego, 32 and Gary Brown, 33 were arrested on…
Transgender man, Thomas Beatie who hit the headlines 4 years ago when he became the world’s first pregnant man wants to have more children. Beatie who had his first sex-change operation 15 years ago has still got a womb and gave birth to three children with his wife of ten years, Nancy. Nancy was unable…
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) discriminatory treatment and failure to protect an openly gay former student who faced severe and relentless harassment at Arsenal Technical High School (Tech) throughout the 2011-2012 school year. Rather than address the constant harassment and…
David Koch, the billionaire industrialist who has donated millions of dollars to help elect Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has stated that he disagrees with the Republican stance against same-sex marriage. Koch spoke to Politico during last week’s Republican National Conference, saying, “I believe in gay marriage.” When told Romney was against equal marriage, Koch…
At last week’s 2012 Lavender Law Conference in Washington D.C. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about how President Obama and his administration had taken important steps to ensure equality and justice for LGBT people. Speaking before approximately 1,000 lawyers and legal professionals, at the annual gathering hosted by the National LGBT Bar Association, the attorney…
Gay advocacy organizations to host screening of The New Normal for Utah residents. Following Salt Lake City, Utah NBC affiliate KSL-TV’s decision to not air the upcoming NBC series The New Normal, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center have announced plans to host a panel discussion…
‘Richard III’ at The Old Globe, through Sept. 29 A review presented as a one-act coffee house caricature dialogue by San Diego’s most unpredictable theater critic, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Thom Vegh Place: Filter Coffee House, San Diego Time: Another unrelenting sunny day around 10 a.m. (As the curtain rises KIP, an arts writer for…
