SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Gay social network Hornet announced today the launch of the “Know Your Rights” campaign, an effort to educate gay men of their rights as brutal violence against the LGBTQ community is on the rise worldwide. Hornet worked closely with the United Nations’ “Free & Equal” campaign, a public education campaign created…
TEL AVIV — The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo announced today that the theme of the 2017 LGBT Pride Parade is “Bisexuality Visibility” The parade will be the first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate the theme bisexuality. Starting June 3, hundreds of thousands of people from Israel and around the world are…
In Bayard & Me, award-winning filmmaker Matt Wolf shares the little-known story of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and the lengths he went to legalize his relationship with his partner Walter Naegle. The civil rights activist is best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1980s,…
NEW YORK —Whistleblower Chelsea Manning will be released from U.S. military prison next week after serving a seven-year sentence for disclosing classified information that raised public awareness regarding the impact of war on innocent civilians. Manning, a transgender woman, was serving an unprecedented 35-year sentence for whistleblowing and was forced to serve her sentence in…
New parents have a lot to be joyful about, but the worries can add up as well. One concern parents can still take care of is having health insurance for their child and themselves through Covered California. Though Covered California’s annual open-enrollment period has ended, having a newborn or adopting a child are among the…
NEW YORK — More than 250 business leaders gathered Friday at the seventh annual Out Leadership: U.S. LGBT+ Senior Leader Summit, hosted by Time Warner at the Time Warner Center in New York, and sponsored by Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Out Leadership is the global LGBT+ business advisory company, partnering with the world’s most influential firms…
Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black has married his partner, British Olympic diver Tom Daley. The BBC reported that the couple got married in a service at a luxury hotel on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Daley shared a picture of the wedding on Facebook posting, “Thank you to everyone who made this weekend…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The state of California annually marks Harvey Milk’s birthday, May 22, as a statewide day of significance. The GLBT History Museum will honor the occasion this year by offering free admission to all visitors throughout the day. The museum is located at 4127 18th St. in San Francisco’s Castro District. It…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.– California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) and Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) Friday announced a bill to protect immigrants from irrelevant disclosures of their immigration status in open court. SB 785 requires that any questions about the immigration status of any witness, victim, or defendant first be deemed by a judge…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam Friday signed into law HB 1111 — a measure that could undermine certain protections under state law for women and LGBTQ people in an effort to challenge the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision on marriage equality. The new law requires courts and agencies apply a so-called “natural” meaning interpretation…
