Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed openly gay civil rights attorney Kevin Kish to lead the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, filling a vacancy atop an agency under scrutiny for its own employment record, the Sacramento Bee. An adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and director of Bet Tzedek Legal Services’…
http://youtu.be/R0cuGgXd8sE In a first, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his wife Lilibet released a holiday message to men and women of the Defense Department last week that included an image of MM2 2nd Class Jerrel Revels’ proposal to his boyfriend Dylan Kirchner. Watch he video above.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have announced that an arrest has been made in the shooting death of a transgender woman who was killed in Hollywood in October. Aniya Knee Parker, 47, was shot point-blank in the head in the 600 block of North Kenmore Avenue early Oct. 2. In a two-sentence news release,…
They claimed they were the objects of sexual harassment before, during and after their appearance in a gay Pride parade. But Providence, Rhode Island firefighters Theodore Fabrizio and Stephen Deninno have lost their lawsuit against the city in a case that pitted ‘religious exemptions’ over what a unanimous high court ruled was “a legitimate work…
Marriage equality will finally come to the entirety of the isle of Great Britain when same-sex marriages begin in Scotland this coming Wednesday. The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act, which was overwhelmingly passed by the Scottish Parliament in February, came into effect earlier this month, reports Pink News. Scotland enforces a 15-day notice period…
Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week. Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose…
For years, efforts to pass laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment and public accommodations have been derailed by the right-wing myth that sexual predators will exploit those laws to sneak into women’s restrooms. In 2014, that myth finally began to lose steam, reports Media Matters For America in their latest post. Anti-LGBT activists…
Morocco has jailed two men for having gay sex, reports Pink News. A court sentenced two men Dec.23 to three years in prison for “homosexual practices”, the maximum penalty under the law. The ruling was fast-tracked by the court, after the two men, believed to have been local to the area, were found having sex …
ABC released the first promo for the 2015 Oscars, Christmas Day, featuring Patrick Neal Harris with a last-minute gift idea — tell your family to watch him host the Oscars! When Harris was confirmed as host, his first time, in October he said, “To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy…
The Interview banked $1 million at the box office on Christmas Day, and it could make a couple million more over the long holiday weekend, reports CNNMoney. “The audience reaction was fantastic – the limited release, in under 10 percent of the amount of theaters originally planned, featured numerous sellouts and a first-day gross over…
