Last month, JCPenney was the focus of homophobic outrage and calls for a boycott after it featured a lesbian couple in its Mother’s Day catalog. Also when JCPenney brought on Ellen DeGeneres earlier this year as a spokesperson, the so-called One Million Moms (OMM) — a group of the homophobic American Family Association — condemned…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Department of Defense announced Thursday that it will be commemorating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride later this month. The event will be the first of its kind for the Pentagon. “The Defense Department is planning an LGBT Pride Month event for later this month,” Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Laniez said in…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — When “John,” a gay man from a southern town in the U.S., stumbled upon Grindr, a location-linked app for gay men, he saw it as an opportunity to meet like-minded people in his hometown. “I thought it was neat because you got to see the proximity…
WASHINGTON, June 15 – Today OutServe, the association of actively-serving LGBT U.S. military personnel and one of the largest LGBT employee resource groups in the world, praised Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s LGBT Pride message. The Secretary issued a video message to all Defense Department employees commemorating June as LGBT Pride Month, and recognizing gay…
Mari Carmen Aponte is officially the Ambassador to El Salvador, the White House announced Friday. Aponte faced political heat last year after writing an op-ed piece for the Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Grafica that supported the LGBT community in the nation. The editorial written Nov. 2011 praised El Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes for signing a…
Nobody Loves You, a new musical comedy now getting it’s World Premiere at The Old Globe, may come off like Glee meets Big Bang Theory meets a trashy hetero couple reality show, but underneath it all, it’s a pretty good show. Reality television, as we can all attest, has taken over and all but squashed…
LOS ANGELES (CNN) – While he predicted Republicans would adopt a bumper sticker slogan of “It’s Obama’s fault” this election year, President Barack Obama maintained he was “very proud” of his work in the past three and a half years. “They’re going to say, ‘Well you know what, you’re still not satisfied, then it’s Obama’s…
(CNN) – The daughter of Cuba’s president supports the re-election bid of President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast recently on CNNi’s Amanpour. “As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro…
MOSCOW – A Moscow court has upheld the decision to ban Pride events for the next hundred years. The Tverskoy district court stated it was lawful for the Russian capital’s municipal government to decline the 102 requests filed by gay rights activist Nikolay Alexeyev for Pride marches every year until 2112. Alexeyev plans to appeal…
We get it. Millennials, those born roughly between 1983 and 2001, thunderously approve of same-sex marriage. Poll after poll after poll indicates that the generation that enters the last year of its 20s this year not only endorses the civil rights of same-sex couples, but has claimed the revelation of its position as its very…
