Bob Nelson has assumed a seat on the Port District Board of Commissioners after winning a 6-2 vote from the San Diego City Council. Nelson, a past chairman of The LGBT Center, boasts a long list of involvement in city affairs and is the current chair of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation. Nelson replaced…
Sempra Energy and Qualcomm receive perfect scores on annual Corporate Equality Index The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released its annual list of “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.” This year, 337 companies were awarded this distinction for their employment policies and practices that include LGBT workers and…
A young woman who shot her girlfriend through both legs was sentenced Jan. 25 to three years in state prison by a judge who denied probation and a request by the prosecutor for a six year sentence. Sade Keyana Peterson, 21, who was dressed in blue jail clothing, said nothing in court before El Cajon…
The trial has begun in Paris of four men accused of a prolonged attack on a gay man in a public park. The 2006 incident left Bruno Wiel, now 33, unconscious at the scene. The four men, who are all in their twenties, allegedly started a conversation with Wiel as he left a gay bar…
Two young men who filmed themselves having sex with a 17-year-old have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. It is reported that the stoning was to be scheduled “immediately to instill fear in the people of Iran.” Agents of the Iranian regime discovered the film on the mobile phones of Ayub, 20, and…
Bristol, UK – A UK judge has ruled that the proprietors of a hotel were breaking the law when they denied a gay couple a room at their hotel in September 2008. Peter, 70, and Hazelmary Bull, 66, refused to let a room to Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Pred-dy at the Chy-morvah…
Shortly after a US judge had ruled they could not, a lesbian couple in Virginia has been allowed to change their names. Leigh Anne Ruth Hunter and Jennifer Beth Surber, who have been together for eight years and have a baby daughter, asked Judge C Randall Lowe to change both of their second names to…
Las Vegas, March 3-4 2011 Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada will be hosting its 3rd Annual HIV Wellness Conference in Las Vegas, March 3-4 2011. The conference will be held at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. Early registration for two full days is $169 and one full day is $80. The price includes…
Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, and his partner Sean Eldridge, a director of Freedom to Marry, have announced their engagement and intention to push for same-sex marriage in New York State. Eldridge announced the couple’s plans for a union while hosting a Freedom to Marry reception. He said, “As you know, we can’t get married in…
In the past being gay or lesbian in Jacksonville, Florida was not something you openly talked about. Most people kept their sexuality to themselves, remembering all too well the dangers of being openly gay or lesbian when an LGBT church was bombed in the 1980s. But today it is different. Today there are eight churches…
