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…
It’s official. As of 5 pm PDT on October 12, 2011, the Stop SB 48 campaign did not turn in the required signatures to put a referendum on the ballot. Stop SB 48 wanted to oveturn the Fair Education Act that allows for the teaching of LGBT history in schools, as well as prevents the…
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…
“If I was gay, don’t you think she would’ve said something about it in the divorce three or four years ago? I mean, why now when the book’s [already] come out?” asked Hulk Hogan during his interview Wednesday at the Howard Stern show. Hogan denied his wife’s claims that he had an affair with wrestling…
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…
Today marks National Coming Out Day, where closeted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to speak up about their sexual orientation. As National Coming Out Day is celebrated across the nation, the premise of the observance is to promote greater self-acceptance in letting young people know it’s okay to be gay. According to…
Anna Grodzka, president of TGEU, will take her seat as Poland’s first elected member of parliament. Grodzka has been a longtime supporter of LGBT equality throughout Europe and was a candidate of the Palikot Movement, a new political party that has taken special interest in LGBT issues during election. “This is an incredible step forward…
