WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has launched Americans for Marriage Equality, a public engagement campaign featuring prominent Americans who support committed gay and lesbian couples getting married. The campaign will draw from a cadre of supportive professional athletes, film and music celebrities, political and civil rights leaders – and will have a special…
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. – School officials in Union Township are investigating the alleged anti-LGBT rant of New Jersey high school teacher Viki Knox. Knox, a teacher at Union High School, posted a slew of homophobic and transphobic remarks on her public Facebook wall after she saw a bulletin board celebrating LGBT History Month in her…
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two transgender rights bills into law. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act makes “gender identity and expression” its own protected category at work, at school, in housing, at public accommodations and in other settings. The Vital Statistics Modernization Act, makes it easier for transgender people to get a court-ordered gender…
AUSTRALIA – Prominent South Australian Labor Party politician, Tom Kenyon has apologized for saying openly gay minister Penny Wong should not be allowed to marry her pregnant partner. Wong’s partner, Sophie Allouache, is pregnant, and the baby is due sometime in December. The Australian newspaper reported Kenyon, who is from Labor’s “hard Catholic right faction”…
WARSAW –Anna Grodzka, president of Transgender Europe (TGEU) member organization Trans-Fuzja, a Polish transgender support group, has become the first openly transgender woman to be elected into the Polish parliament. Grodzka, who has been working for transgender and intersex issues for more than four years, was a candidate of the Palikot Movement, a new political…
The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of San Diego will be presenting Follies at the Met, Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m., for one night only. The event will also include a spaghetti dinner that starts at 5:30 p.m. And, during the dinner hour, there will be a silent auction consisting of 15 home decorating items…
Get ready to unleash your urban cowboy, so say organizers of the first annual Hillcrest Hoedown happening Sunday, Oct 16. So exactly what is a hoedown? According to Dictionary.com it’s “a community dancing party typically featuring folk and square dances accompanied by lively hillbilly tunes played on the fiddle.” This year’s event will take place…
San Diego LGBT Weekly has learned that Equality California will be laying off staff in coming weeks, and has lost some sources of revenue in the aftermath of soon-to-be-former executive director, Roland Palencia’s resignation, which preceded the group’s decision to stop seeking a 2012 ballot initiative to repeal Proposition 8. EQCA has confirmed layoffs are…
San Diegan Peggy Walkush, is a survivor of breast cancer, a cancer research fundraiser extraordinaire and the first lesbian (honorary) captain of the San Diego Chargers during a recent game, as part of the NFL’s breast cancer awareness campaign called “A Crucial Catch.” “Being honorary team captain of the San Diego Chargers … was a…
NEW YORK – Just as a new poll showed Herman Cain moving into a tie for second place for the GOP presidential nomination, he sparked fury by saying that homosexuality is a choice. The Washington Blade reported that during an appearance on ABC’s The View, when asked by host Joy Behar whether he believes being…
