After two years at Liberty Station, San Diego IndieFest creators/producers Alicia Champion and Danielle LoPresti are transitioning the festival to City Heights Saturday, March 28, as part of a vision to help revitalize, strengthen and celebrate the city’s most culturally rich neighborhood. California State Assembly Speaker, Toni Atkins, said, “I can attest to the singular effect that IndieFest had on…
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed fired the city’s fire chief, Kelvin Cochran today. GAVoice reported that Cochran was to return to work today after a 30-day suspension without pay for going against city policy by writing a book that included comparing homosexuality to bestiality. Reed made the announcement this afternoon at a press conference at City…
Despite its contentious legacy on racial discrimination, Greensboro, North Carolina hopes to nudge the dial forward on LGBT equality tonight when the City Council votes on several new anti-discrimination ordinances. “The proposed changes in Greensboro include adding sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to a list of enumerated categories in three ordinances — fair…
KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Two Key West men whose lawsuit helped pave the way for marriage equality in Florida said “I Do” during the Florida Keys’ first legal same-sex wedding early Tuesday. Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones signed and received their marriage license — the first ever issued to a same-sex couple in…
Miami-Dade County became the first place in Florida to allow same-sex couples to marry on Monday, half a day before a gay-marriage ban that has been ruled unconstitutional is lifted in the rest of the state, reports the Miami Herald. Weddings began around 1:30 p.m. ET, less than three hours after lifted the legal stay…
A federal judge’s stay on a ruling overturning Florida’s ban on marriage equality expires at the end of the day today, making the Sunshine State the latest where same-sex couples can legally marry. With Florida, over 216 million Americans – 70 percent of the country – live in a state with marriage equality. Since this…
A fast growing Change.org petition to enact ‘Leelah’s Law’ to ban transgender conversion therapy, in honor of transgender teen Leela Alcorn has reached more than 280,000 signatures. The 17-year-old teenager from Ohio whose suicide note blamed gay conversion therapy for her death, and called on others to “fix society” to prevent more transgender suicides. One…
CBS Films has said it will ‘look into’ why all reference to homosexuality was removed from the U.S. DVD release of the movie Pride, reports Pink News. The U.S. DVD cover had no references to homosexuality. The original text described the main characters in the movie as a ‘London-based group of gay and lesbian activists.’…
Denee Mallon, 74-year-old transgender woman, has become the first person to receive gender reassignment surgery on a government Medicare plan. From her hospital bed in Chicago Mallon said, “Here I am, finally, after all these years. It happened.” NBC News reported that her operation will be one of the first paid for by Medicare after…
Members and allies of the transgender community held a vigil in Trafalgar Square, London Saturday afternoon, in memory of Leelah Alcorn, the transgender teen who took her own life last week, reports Pink News. In her heartbreaking suicide note Leelah Alcorn noted a life of pain and rejection, including by her Christian parents who refused to…
