Some people think that I am not a supporter of Carl DeMaio. The truth is that I cannot stomach those who put their personal career above the well-being of our community. DeMaio recently stated that he is not running on social issues; this is evidenced by his fundraiser hosted by former mayor of San Diego,…
LONDON – Ads, which suggested gay people could be cured, that were due to appear on the side of some of London’s iconic red double-decker buses have been banned. The Press Association reported that the campaign was due to run for two weeks on the side of vehicles serving five routes in the capital, including…
Mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher has doubled his support for the San Diego mayoral race after dropping the GOP according to a recent scientific poll conducted by 10News. The announcement is fresh on the heels of Fletcher’s announcement two weeks ago that he will no longer act on behalf of the Republican party,…
WAYNESVILLE, Ohio – Lambda Legal has filed suit against the Wayne Local School District, Ohio on behalf of a student who was threatened with suspension from school if he wore a T-shirt with the words “Jesus is not a homophobe.” Last April, on GLSEN’s National Day of Silence, Maverick Couch wore a T-shirt to Waynesville…
T odd Clayton, 22, has been generating a lot of buzz lately. The former student chaplain at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU), who came out of the closet a year ago amid a flurry of publicity, has just had his writing work published in the Huffington Post and twice on Sojourners. He has had 40,000…
Like Haley’s Comet, the Olympics and a compromise in Washington politics, a concentrated cluster of innovative art activity happens once in a blue moon in San Diego. I am not thinking about the monthly art walks here, there and everywhere, but rather a set of independent art activities arranged by the small, non-profit art organizations…
Following last month’s passage of St. Petersburg’s vehemently discriminatory bill which prohibits any discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender topics in public, All Out, a for-LGBT organization, is calling for all activists and allies to sign a petition to overturn the ‘gay gag bill‘ and transmit support for those affected in St. Petersburg. All…
Pine Bluff (CNN – Pine Bluff Commercial) — It was “Joe Time” at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff on Tuesday and audience members believe the popular television judge lived up to his billing. Judge Joe Brown put his trademark “from-the-streets upbringing” and “tough-love approach” to work in delivering the keynote address at UAPB‘s…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Evangelical activist Michael Farris was not exactly surprised that Rick Santorum suspended his campaign on Tuesday. But that doesn’t mean that Farris, a longtime political organizer, knows what he’s supposed to do now. “Right now my choice is to sit on my hands and do nothing or to…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Despite long-term relationships, shared children and steadfastness to each other in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, same-sex couples like Heather McIver and Suzanne Lowe, Kelli Evans and Karen Wade, and J. Wesley Thompson and Trey Owen know that their commitments could be invalidated with…
