SAN DIEGO –Balboa Park West End will continue to deliver exciting events, enriching activities and deep cultural experiences during the Cabrillo Bridge retrofit Jan. 2 through April 30, 2014. While Balboa Park’s 100-year-old Cabrillo Bridge (which connects Laurel Street to the Park) undergoes renovations, it will be closed to automobiles, but pedestrians may still easily…
The number of marriages in the state of Utah have broken all records since a federal judge overturned Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage a week ago. According to a report in The Salt Lake Tribune, as of close of business Thursday, more than 1,225 marriage licenses had been issued in Utah since last Friday and…
Writer Dean Atta expresses his thoughts on the recent royal pardon given to Alan Turing, the World War II British code-breaker who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, in a poem for Pink News. I beg your pardon? Alan Turing’s pardon comes sixty years too late Our country showed him no love then, just…
A Hillcrest man was attacked on Christmas Eve by a group of men wielding baseball bats and shouting anti-gay slurs. The attack happened in the early hours of Christmas Eve, on First Avenue near Robinson, leaving Dwayne Wynn with a broken eye socket and three cracked ribs. Wynn, who believes he was targeted because he…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he will not just sign the new Anti-Homosexuality Bill without checking it carefully, reports Gay Star News. The bill, passed by parliament in a shock move last week, no longer has the death penalty for gays, but does offer life in prison for repeat homosexuals. It also requires people…
Today the White House issued the following statement by Jen Psaki, spokesperson on U.S. concern with the passage of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality legislation: We are deeply concerned by the Ugandan Parliament’s passage of anti-homosexuality legislation. As Americans, we believe that people everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality – and that no one should face…
A sleepy neighborhood in Orange County has been rocked by the action of one of its residents. And what has got Irvine’s Orangetree Housing Association up in arms – a Rainbow Flag no less! The OC Weekly reports that resident Dr. Mary Pham incurred the wrath of many of her neighbors by hanging an LGBT…
Tuesday, Utah U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby denied a request by state officials to stay his historic ruling from last week that struck down Utah’s ban on marriage for lesbian and gay couples. Across the country, another federal judge in Ohio ruled that the state must recognize an out of state marriage for the purpose…
World War II British code-breaker Alan Turing, who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has been pardoned by the Queen. The royal pardon, under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, is effective today and comes nearly 60 years after Turing committed suicide. Turing’s code-breaking work is considered by many to have helped change the…
Uganda has passed its anti-LGBT law that has been under consideration since 2009. The law does not include the death penalty provision it once did, but rather imprisons LGBT people for life. “Uganda’s anti-LGBT law specifically targets LGBT people with brutal persecution and is one of the worst human rights violations of our time.” said Ross…
