At a ceremony in San Francisco Tuesday, the U.S. Navy made history by naming a new Military Sealift Command ship after Harvey Milk, the former Navy diver and pioneer in the LGBTQ civil rights movement who was assassinated in 1978. In another historic first, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus selected transgender Navy veteran Paula…
LOS ANGELES– Equality California (EQCA) announced today that it has endorsed Proposition 63, the “Safety for All” ballot initiative backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Following the shootings in June at an Orlando LGBT nightclub, a spike in homicides of LGBT people and an ongoing worldwide epidemic of murders of transgender women, Equality California has made…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today responded to Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech delivered Monday in which Trump said people should take a test before being allowed to immigrate to the United States. “In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test,” Trump said to a crowd in Youngstown, Ohio. “The time is overdue…
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The C.A.R.E. (Comprehensive AIDS Resource and Education) Program at Dignity Health – St. Mary Medical Center has been awarded a $90,000 grant to fund a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Center of Excellence. Tuesday, Aug. 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding for the Los Angeles County Department of Public…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today released the following statement in response to media reports that Donald Trump will require immigrants to pass an “ideological test” that would include interviews about their feelings about LGBTQ equality. “What’s craziest about this ignorant, incomprehensible plan is that Donald Trump and Mike Pence would fail…
A man whose homophobic rant against a bicyclist was recorded on film which subsequently racked up thousands of views on YouTube has now apologized. Ryan Lewis of Orange County, Calif. delivered his rant in a confrontation with a bicyclist after Lewis apparently failed to share the road which was a designated Share the Road lane….
Ray Ellis, Democrat Barbara Bry’s opponent in the San Diego City Council District 1 race, has dropped out. According to a KPBS report Ellis cited what he expects to be a divisive presidential race as a reason for dropping out. “As we look to November, I believe the toxicity and the divisiveness at the top…
SACRAMENTO — The California Senate Thursday day passed a bipartisan resolution by California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) calling for an end to federal blood donation policies that discriminate against men who have sex with men (MSM). Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 26 calls…
WASHINGTON — Friday, on the two-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting that took the lives of 49 LGBTQ people and allies, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) courted anti-LGBTQ activists just 10 miles from the site of the tragedy in Orlando. Rubio, who has a long track record of opposing LGBTQ protections and basic gun safety…
SACRAMENTO – The Senate Committee Appropriations forwarded 10 bills authored by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to the full State Senate, advancing her efforts to bolster the earning power of working families and protect their public safety, regardless of immigration status. The Senate’s committee on fiscal issues released from its suspense file bills…
