Harvey Milk’s Equality Award, Leadership Award and Youth Essay Award are being presented at this year’s Third Annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, May 20, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. The 2011 Harvey Milk Leadership Award of San Diego is being presented to the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education, Superintendent Bill…
WASHINGTON –The House Armed Services Committee has marked up the National Defense Authorization Act with three anti-gay amendments. The three amendments would require the four service branch chiefs to sign off on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal, prohibit weddings for same-sex couples on military facilities by chaplains and affirm that the Defense of Marriage Act…
MARYLAND – A large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has found men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral anti-retroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy. The clinical trial, known as HPTN 052,…
MINNESOTA – The Presbyterian Church has voted to allow the ordination of openly gay and lesbian clergy, elders and deacons. The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the country with more than 2.3 million members and about 11,000 congregations. The change, which opens up the possibility that people in same-sex relationships can…
WASHINGTON – Celebrated TV and radio host Larry King, has released a video with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) for its New Yorkers for Marriage Equality Campaign. In the video, King discusses the injustice of denying marriage from loving and committed same-sex couples. King says he can’t figure out why “some couples can get married…
CALIFORNIA – The State Senate has passed legislation that will bar the State of California from entering into contracts in excess of $100,000 with businesses and other entities that deny equal benefits to the same-sex spouses of their employees. The Equal Benefits bill (SB 117), authored by Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) and sponsored by…
UGANDA – Supporters of anti-gay legislation being introduced in Uganda look set to lose the battle to introduce the death sentence for what they describe as “aggravated homosexuality.” The bill, first introduced in October 2009, was ostensibly shelved by Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni following an international outcry. However, public hearings on the bill have taken…
UNITED KINGDOM – Two drag queens have been savagely attacked in the northern British city of Liverpool. Drag artist Lady Shaun, well-known in the gay community as a street entertainer, is recovering from a broken jaw after she was knocked out by a man who punched her in the face. She told the Liverpool Echo,…
ArcHIVe Project presents a screening of the critically-acclaimed movie, Philadelphia, in conjunction with their Kickoff Gala, May 20. The movie starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Ave.); the gala begins immediately after the film, across the street at the Sunset Temple (3911 Kansas Street). The gala includes drinks and…
