SAN DIEGO – The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO finalized its early endorsement list in advance of the upcoming local and statewide electoral cycle at last week’s monthly meeting of Labor Council’s Delegates. All endorsed candidates participated in an extensive screening process with rank-and-file members and union leadership, which included a mandatory…
SAN DIEGO — Two teenagers who held up nine pedestrians at gunpoint in Hillcrest, North Park, and La Jolla were sentenced Dec. 10 to 21 and 13 years in prison respectively, but two robbery victims told the judge the sentences were too harsh. Victor Ledesma, 19, received 21 years and four months and Jonah Michael…
We always have something, perhaps just one thing, in common with others. That thought struck me as one of our neighbors invited us to stop by and see his Christmas flamingos. Who would have guessed that this perfectly straight guy, married to a woman, always puttering in his workroom, not only collected flamingo paraphernalia, but…
SAN DIEGO — Ocean Beach Town Council President Gretchen Newsom announced Friday that she is pulling out of the race to become mayor of San Diego. “I have decided that I will not run for mayor,” Newsom said in a statement. “My husband and I have recently decided to divorce on an amicable basis and,…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The married same-sex couples suing the State of Florida have asked a federal court to order state officials to list both parents on their children’s birth certificates as Florida already does for children born to married different-sex couples. Aug. 13, the couples, along with Equality Florida Institute, the largest organization representing lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
NEW YORK, NY – After 25 years of groundbreaking advocacy and service to New York’s LGBT community resulting in over 100 state legislative and policy victories, The Empire State Pride Agenda, New York’s statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, will conclude major operations in 2016. In the coming months, the Pride…
Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the ruling of Pulaski Circuit Court Judge Tim Fox, who ruled in favor of three same-sex couples who sued to be listed on the birth certificates of their children. The State Supreme Court ruled that, “the best course of action is to preserve the status quo with regard…
The Indiana Family Institute and the American Family Association of Indiana yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging the measure that was passed and signed into law early this year limiting the damage of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The group claim the “fix” violates their “religious liberty,” and are challenging not only the state’s law,…
A leading Caribbean LGBT and HIV advocate in Jamaica has filed a claim challenging the constitutionality of the country’s sodomy laws. Lecturer and HIV policy analyst, Maurice Tomlinson has called the longstanding laws a “gross violation of my human rights” and those of all LGBT people in Jamaica. Tomlinson is challenging the constitutionality of the…
Lawmakers on Guernsey, a British Crown dependency in the English Channel and one of the Channel Islands, yesterday voted 37-7 in favor of introducing marriage equality. Guernsey politicians rejected two alternatives to same-sex marriage: the introduction of civil partnerships or a Union Civile, a single legal form of civil partnerships available to all couples, reports Gay…
