Save your money and stop using those energy drinks! You are deluding yourself if you think these are the answer to getting the power for your workouts and everyday life routine. If you are dependent upon these types of drinks then you are doing something wrong. The energy drinks are nothing more than coffee disguised…
Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of 10 states seeking to block President Barack Obama’s historic guidance to ensure the dignity and equal treatment of transgender students in public and federally-funded schools. The lawsuit filed by Peterson seeks to rescind the Obama administration’s recent guidance on transgender student rights,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In this week’s address, Vice President Joe Biden commemorated the lives of the five police officers who were killed and the seven people who were wounded in Dallas. The police officers were providing safety to those who were peacefully marching against racial injustices in the criminal justice system – and the shocking…
A gay police officer was among those wounded in a shooting that left five of his colleagues dead Thursday night in Dallas, reports The New Civil Rights Movement. Jesus Retana, 39, is now reportedly recovering at home with his husband, former DART officer Andrew Moss. Retana has worked for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) for…
With the nation still reeling from the deaths of two black men – Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minn., on Wednesday and Alton Sterling who was killed by police in Baton Rouge, La. on Tuesday – a gunman killed five police officers in an “ambush-style” attack during…
WASHINGTON – Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released guidance on assisting LGBTQ refugees ahead of a U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing next week on global human rights, the first ever to include a witness focused exclusively on the human rights of LGBTQ people. While LGBTQ people around the world have long faced…
LOS ANGELES — The rights of transgender Americans have never been so hotly debated. Whether in the military, in schools, in athletics or in the workplace, ending transgender discrimination has become one of the civil rights causes of this decade. And with a new estimate out last week that there are 1.4 million transgender Americans…
Ready for Pride? The San Diego LGBT Weekly 2016 Pride Guide is available now. The only printed guide available for this year’s Pride, the LGBT Weekly Pride Guide is your indispensable reference for all things Pride. The Pride Guide lists community events, speakers, club events and nightlife. Complete Music Festival listings are included together with…
As I listened to FBI Director James Comey’s statement on the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, one quote ran through my mind: “Vote For the Crook … It’s Important.” That was the unofficial slogan of the 1991 race for Louisiana governor. Whatever the official slogan was, it came in…
I remember how tough it was for me to change my documented gender in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) as a military retiree in 2013. It was incredibly tough and onerous: I needed six separate pieces of documentation, to include proof of surgery. Most of the documents the Department of Defense (DoD) required…
