San Diego-based gay adult studio Corbin Fisher is planning a series of antipiracy lawsuits, yet the company is offering amnesty for a limited time to those who have been illegally sharing its content online. In a statement to the press, Corbin Fisher said any individual who has been illegally uploading, downloading or torrent-sharing its…
Maybe it was too much to hope for. To hope that President Obama would say the word “transgender” in his latest State Of The Union address. I’m very aware that the visible part of the transgender sub-community of the LGBT community is pretty small, and my sub-community’s concerns are easily lost in broader pictures. But…
With the possible exception of prison overcrowding, societal ills tend to affect two groups: the young and the old. Disease, poverty and hunger all disproportionately affect children and seniors. Discrimination against the LGBT community is no different. Young people are often easy victims due to lack of support and experience. A seemingly small insult can…
Simply reading the word, or hearing it said, conjures up images of African Americans being hosed down by racists in the South. The word is permanently associated with racial discrimination, but its true meaning is a prejudgment, an assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with…
Hope you’re all doing well. Remember when the flu lasted only a few days, now it lasts for weeks. I’m just getting over a bad case and it looks like my flu shot didn’t work! I will organize opposition to renaming the Coronado Bridge to Ronald Reagan Bridge Now comes word that there is a…
INDIA – Thousands of trans-gender community members rallied to mark the annual Transgender Community Cele-brations Week 2011. Members of the community participated in the rally dressed up in fancy attires of Hindu deities and other traditional wear. The rally was organized by Tamil Nadu Aids Initiative (TAI) and Voluntary Health Services (VHS). Dr. R. Lakshmi…
ITALY – University of Milan is offering its first gay studies course, a revolutionary feat in the predominantly Roman Catholic Italy. Nearly 200 students showed up for the first day and 120 enrolled for credit. “We are very satisfied,” Fabio Galantucci told The Washington Post. Galantucci is one of the students who helped design the…
CANADA – The federal broadcasting regulator of Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecom-muni-ca–tions Com-mission (CRTC), has be-come involved in the controversy surrounding the banning of the Classic Dire Straits track “Money for Nothing,” which was released 25 years ago. The global hit single came out on the band’s iconic fifth album, “Brothers in Arms,” in…
NETHERLANDS – For the first time in almost 15 years, the HIV rate is on the rise among gay and bisexual men in Amsterdam. The latest findings, reported in the journal AIDS, included 1,642 gay and bisexual men in Amsterdam who were followed for up to 25 years. At the start of the study, the…
