Not long after Carly Fiorina announced her presidential bid the Web site CarlyFiorina.org appeared. That’s not so strange you may think, except that Carly Fiorina didn’t register it! The site which seemed to be registered in December uses the platform to criticize her time as CEO of Hewlett Packard. “Carly Fiorina failed to register this…
Lily Rubenstein came out to her family as transgender when she was 12. The Southern California native, now 15, told Fox 11 Los Angeles that she hopes to inspire others struggling with their identity by speaking publicly. “I’m proud to be able to represent the trans community and be able to let people know that…
Today the World Congress of Families (WCF) announced it had appointed Janice Shaw Crouse as the executive director of their upcoming WCF IX conference in Salt Lake City. Under the leadership of Crouse, who is notoriously anti-LGBT, thousands of anti-LGBT and anti-choice activists will descend on Salt Lake City in October 2015. The Human Rights…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced his bid today for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Huckabee, who is popular with the religious right, shared the news of his candidacy with supporters in his hometown of Hope, 113 miles southwest of Little Rock. “I was raised to believe that where a person started doesn’t mean that’s…
Now you can take a European vacation and learn a language as the Gay European Travel Association (GETA) has partnered with Seville based language school, Sign Up, to create Europe’s first ever language courses specifically planned for LGBT students. The two and four week language courses combine Spanish lessons with an unforgettable gay experience in…
As the 2016 campaign gets going, three outspoken opponents of same-sex marriage will hit the trail in Michigan, even as new polling shows that Michigan voters strongly support marriage equality. The Detroit Free Press reported recently that Rand Paul, Ben Carson and Scott Walker will all be hosting campaign events in Michigan today. Meanwhile, new…
For Tasha Grant, a passenger travelling from New York to Manila with a ten-hour layover in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a question asked of a customer service agent has convulsed into a 15-page lawsuit against a major international carrier. This incident took place over the phone. According to the lawsuit: “On April 10, 2015, she spoke…
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military spouses and their families, announced that Representative Dina Titus (D-NV) will be honored at the 2nd Annual AMPA National Gala – the nation’s biggest LGBT military event of the year – next Saturday, May…
Samantha Allen over at DailyBeast.com asks, and quite possibly answers, why bisexual women have significantly higher rates of smoking marijuana than their straight or lesbian peers. According to Allen and the 2000 National Alcohol Survey, “nearly 38 percent of bisexual women reported marijuana use in the last year compared to only 5 percent of straight…
A 20-year-old man who answered a Craigslist personal advertisement has pleaded guilty to robbing a 74-year-old man who was shot with a taser and tied up in a bathtub. Lucas Churchill Holmes, of El Cajon, pleaded guilty fairly early in his case, as he was arrested April 8. Charges of committing elder abuse, burglary, and…
