WASHINGTON – House Speaker John Boehner has approved an increase to the cost cap of defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to $1.5 million. Boehner originally entered into a contract with private attorneys to defend DOMA in court with a cap of legal fees at $500,000. A new contract has been revealed that increases…
Oct. 13 Michael Guest Diplomat b. Oct. 26, 1957 “Leaders are judged not only by the challenges they tackle, but by those they fail to address.” Michael Guest is the first openly gay Senate-confirmed U.S. ambassador. He was nominated by George W. Bush. After serving for 26 years, Guest resigned from the State Department due…
Transgender Human Rights Campaign board member Meghan Stabler has married another woman in Texas by legally declaring her gender as male, a development that could be considered controversial (and perhaps hypocritical) because of Stabler’s national prominence, and because of her position at HRC as the only known trans person sitting on the board. The lesbian…
WASHINGTON – LGBT History Month provides role models, teaches history, builds community and celebrates our community’s important national and international contributions. As the nation honors LGBT heroes during each day of October for LGBT History Month former Speaker of the House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi pledged her support of both the month-long event and the push…
NEW YORK – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) honored the best in LGBT-inclusive advertising, marketing and public relations at the 2011 GLAAD Amplifier Awards Oct. 4. The awards, held at The Altman Building in New York City, were an official event of Advertising Week and were presented by Omnicom Group, and presented…
AUSTRALIA – Two Western Australian (female-to-male) trans men who challenged the interpretation of the Western Australia (WA) Gender Reassignment Act have won their appeal to be recognized as men. The Australian Star Observer reported that the two took their challenge to the High Court after they were denied a change to their birth certificates because…
UNITED KINGDOM – British prime minister and Conservative Party leader, David Cameron has urged reluctant Conservative Members of Parliament to support gay marriage. Cameron urged the party to back the move because of its Conservatism, not in spite of it, at his keynote speech at the party conference in Manchester. In his speech Cameron said,…
See this week’s print edition of San Diego LGBT Weekly for in-depth coverage – out Thursday. Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia’s resignation, which was announced earlier today, comes in the wake of the organization’s decision to stand down from its mission to repeal Proposition 8 – and, according to insiders staffing cuts will…
Oct. 6, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, accepted a ride home from Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Little did he know this decision would be one that would ultimately claim his life and affect the lives of countless people around the world. That fateful day, Shepard was beaten, pistol…
The 4th annual Pride at the Beach – or Pride @ the beach, as organizers have branded the event – will take place in Oceanside, Oct. 8. The North County LGBTQ Resource Center will be hosting this year’s event, and is hoping for its largest turnout since the event’s inception in 2008. Max Disposti, founder…
