SAO PAULO, Brazil – Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the world’s largest non-profit dedicated to achieving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace equality, today announced details of its 2016 Out & Equal Brazil Forum, which will take place Nov. 17 in São Paulo. Out & Equal Founder and CEO Selisse Berry will deliver the keynote…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing its proposal to provide medically necessary gender confirmation surgery for transgender veterans, as a result of funding issues. A statement from the department to Military.com said, “VA has been and will continue to explore a regulatory change that would allow VA to perform gender alteration surgery and…
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Main Street Alliance small business owners warned of a Donald Trump presidency and the potential impact the election results could have on their businesses in the months and days leading up to the election. They expressed concern over his attacks on women, immigrants, refugees, the LGBTQ community, and people of color, as well…
BERKELEY, Calif. —The campaigns for the 17 measures on California’s ballot raised more than $446 million combined. MapLight, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in politics took a look at the money behind the biggest winners and losers in those races: Winner: The Pharmaceutical Industry The industry spent more than $109 million…
LOS ANGELES — For its annual Year in Review issue, The Advocate looks back at a series of moments that collectively shaped 2016. The retrospective look at this past year includes a collection of events that have impacted our society in a variety of ways. One of these incidences includes the Pulse Nightclub massacre, the…
Forty percent of cancers diagnosed in the U.S. may have a link to tobacco use, according to this month’s Vital Signs Report. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths. It causes more than lung cancer — based on current evidence, it can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, voice…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. This year’s induction ceremony at the Benjamin Dillingham III and Bridget Wilson LGBT Veterans Wall of Honor was a more – maybe the word is “authentic” – experience for one of the wall’s new…
The Human Rights Campaign has reported that leaked documents have indicated that President-Elect Donald Trump is considering for his transition team candidates with histories of anti-LGBTQ animus, including Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council, which has been designated a hate group. “Ken Blackwell is a man who has spent his entire career going after…
The San Diego Book Awards Association has announced a call for entries for the 22nd Annual Writing Competition. The competition is open to all writers residing in San Diego County. There are cash awards with a jury determining the winners. Unpublished and published books must have a 2016 copyright or release date to be eligible….
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. “The gays love …” President-Elect Donald Trump, or so the man himself unabashedly proclaimed following the tragedy at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June. That quintessentially trumpian declaration was intended to assure lesbian, gay, bisexual…
