Know Your Rights/California and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare Foundation is hosting two free town hall meetings for LGBT seniors in San Diego County. Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The first meeting is for LGBT military veterans. The second meeting is a…
NEW YORK – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will announce the creation of a groundbreaking global coalition committed to advancing LGBT workplace equality around the world. The announcement will be made on stage during the closing plenary of the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York. The inaugural members of HRC’s global corporate…
On the heels of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Sept. 27), a new awareness campaign launched by Theratechnolgies – Don’t Take VAT – focuses on the health risks associated with excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT), a type of fat that can affect people with HIV. Many HIV positive people either have no knowledge of…
View More: Overtime Original News|Live News|More News Videos Following the announcement by the Kremlin that Vladimir Putin would meet with singer Sir Elton John, to discuss any issue including LGBT rights the Russian president held an interview with 60 Minutes yesterday. The Advocate reported that Putin told CBS News anchor Charlie Rose said he didn’t…
NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) media advocacy organization, has released the findings of a new survey, conducted online by Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults age 18+, which shows that the number of Americans who report knowing or working with someone who is transgender has doubled in…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released an issue brief to help employees and employers build more inclusive workplace environments for bisexual people. “Bisexual Visibility in the Workplace” addresses the largely unacknowledged challenge of bisexual employee visibility and inclusion, and provides practical suggestions for improving the climate through actions by individual employees, employee…
Honey Lee Cottrell, a visionary photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica in the 1980s through her contributions to the women’s erotica magazine On Our Backs, died on Monday, Sept. 21, in Santa Cruz, Calif. The cause was pancreatic cancer. She was 69 years old. Cottrell revolutionized the female nude, validated women’s right to pleasure,…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at the 19th annual HRC National Dinner on the evening of October 3, 2015, in Washington, DC. In addition, HRC announced that seven-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney will present HRC’s National Vanguard Award to Academy…
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund announced today that it has endorsed Chris Ward as a candidate for San Diego City Council. “We all know that District 3 has had a strong history of leadership on the San Diego City Council, and since Christine Kehoe’s historical election in 1993, the district has had strong LGBT leadership,”…
LOS ANGELES —AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization that currently serves over 486,000 patients around the world each year, today denounced the lack of regulation and pharmaceutical industry greed that has led to record drug prices for specialty medications and billions of dollars in profits for drug manufacturers. Most recently, Turing Pharmaceuticals…
