TORONTO – At an event Tuesday in downtown Toronto, Canada Post unveiled a stamp commemorating the 2005 passage of the Civil Marriage Act, which made marriage equality the law throughout Canada. Grassroots activists, government officials and community members attended the unveiling, catching the first glimpse of the new stamp, which features the iconic rainbow symbol….
President Trump today fired FBI Director James Comey. A statement from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated that President Trump acted on the “… clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.” “The FBI is one of our nation’s most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark…
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…
NBC’s Will & Grace returns for a 12-episode run beginning this fall. Original series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan will serve as writers, showrunners and executive producers. Legendary director James Burrows, who helmed every episode of the show during its initial eight-year run, will direct and executive produce. The new seris will star Megan…
