San Diegan Peggy Walkush, is a survivor of breast cancer, a cancer research fundraiser extraordinaire and the first lesbian (honorary) captain of the San Diego Chargers during a recent game, as part of the NFL’s breast cancer awareness campaign called “A Crucial Catch.” “Being honorary team captain of the San Diego Chargers … was a…
Oct. 13 Michael Guest Diplomat b. Oct. 26, 1957 “Leaders are judged not only by the challenges they tackle, but by those they fail to address.” Michael Guest is the first openly gay Senate-confirmed U.S. ambassador. He was nominated by George W. Bush. After serving for 26 years, Guest resigned from the State Department due…
WASHINGTON – LGBT History Month provides role models, teaches history, builds community and celebrates our community’s important national and international contributions. As the nation honors LGBT heroes during each day of October for LGBT History Month former Speaker of the House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi pledged her support of both the month-long event and the push…
NEW YORK – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) honored the best in LGBT-inclusive advertising, marketing and public relations at the 2011 GLAAD Amplifier Awards Oct. 4. The awards, held at The Altman Building in New York City, were an official event of Advertising Week and were presented by Omnicom Group, and presented…
The conservative group dubbed Stop SB48 has failed in their efforts to repeal the law that would allow LGBT- and disabilities-based education into public school curriculum. The group was not able to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The group was up against a Wednesday deadline to turn…
Transgender activist Chaz Bono, most recently beloved for his performance on Dancing with the Stars, will be honored at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s 40th Anniversary Gala & Auction. The event will be hosted by Leslie Jordan, featuring Jane Lynch on Saturday, Nov. 12. Bono will be honored with the Center’s Board of Directors…
A gay couple in New Orleans who requested both names to be listed on their adopted child’s birth certificate was denied Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The unmarried New York couple, Oren Adar and Mickey Smith, adopted their Louisiana-born son in their homestate in 2006, later requesting the birth certificate from Louisiana’s state registrar…
See this week’s print edition of San Diego LGBT Weekly for in-depth coverage – out Thursday. Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia’s resignation, which was announced earlier today, comes in the wake of the organization’s decision to stand down from its mission to repeal Proposition 8 – and, according to insiders staffing cuts will…
Longtime LGBT activist Frank Kameny passed away on October 11, 2011. In 1957 Kameny was dismissed from his job as an astronomer from the Army Map Service for being gay. This discrimination began Kameny’s lifelong commitment to LGBT equality. An original founder of the seminal gay rights organization the Mattachine Society, Kameny fought for gay civil rights, particularly equal…
On Monday’s Late Night with David Letterman, Tracy Morgan explained that his anti-gay slurs during his stand-up act in June was “a misunderstanding” and that he was just trying to be funny. “I just think it was a misunderstanding. I was up there working,” he told Letterman. “[Y]ou have networks, maybe like Comedy Central, where…
