The San Diego Human Dignity Foundation’s (SDHDF) fifth annual ‘Reunion on the Bay’ is coming up Saturday, Aug. 6 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. where the ‘Love Goddess,’ actress and comedian, Judy Tenuta, will perform selections from her standup comedy and musical acts. Also known as ‘The Aphrodite of the Accordion’ Judy Tenuta was…
An online fundraiser for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting set up by Equality Florida has raised $7M in a campaign that continues to break records for online philanthropy. Equality Florida launched the GoFundMe campaign hours following news of the horrific shooting with an initial goal of raising $100,000. The campaign became the quickest to…
The University of California San Diego has admitted a record 30,273 freshman and 9,802 transfer students for the fall 2016 term. The number of new freshmen is up 3,773 compared to last year and there is also an increase among transfer admits by 1,652 students. Historically underrepresented students are up 46.2 percent at freshman level…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The AIDS United Public Policy Committee, the largest and longest-running national coalition of community-based HIV/AIDS organizations, calls for the local implementation of supervised injection facilities as part of a comprehensive public health approach to reduce overdose deaths, prevent the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C and improve quality of life among people…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — National PTA, the nation’s oldest and largest child advocacy association, adopted a resolution during its 2016 Annual Convention & Expo in Orlando, Fla. on the Recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Individuals as a Protected Class. The resolution calls for federal policies that specifically protect LGBTQ youth and local practices…
Florida’s Department of Children and Families has restored protections for LGBTQ youth in group home care. Equality Florida and child welfare experts met with DCF Secretary Mike Carroll immediately after language that would have protected LGBTQ youth was removed from proposed changes to the rules governing group homes. Child welfare agencies had advocated for the…
RALEIGH — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will be in Raleigh on Tuesday evening, the candidate’s second visit to North Carolina in less than a month. Will Gov. Pat McCrory join his chosen presidential candidate on stage, or just raise money for Trump like last time? Gov. McCrory has twice pledged to support Trump, and…
WASHINGTON—In light of the recent murder of 49 Latino and Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) people in Orlando, Fla., and on the heels of escalating and unprecedented misguided legislative efforts to pass discriminatory laws, the nearly 7,000 delegates at the National Education Association (NEA) Representative Assembly (RA) Monday approved a new business…
Online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims, reports The Wall Street Journal. ChristianMingle has always required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man. The lead plaintiffs, two gay men…
