Cameron Esposito, is back with a new installment of her video series Ask A Lesbian. Buzzfeed asked its readers to send in questions they have about being a lesbian and received over 3,000 responses. Esposito is now digging through those queries and answering a handful of them at a time. In this third video she…
Today, the District of Columbia’s “Conversion Therapy for Minors Prohibition Amendment Act” was passed unanimously and is expected to be signed quickly by the city’s mayor. HRC, in partnership with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, played a lead role in organizing the coalition behind this bill. HRC praised the passage of DC B20-501, and…
A mom in Queensland, Australia has taken out a classified ad to show of support for her son, who just a week ago was a daughter known as Beth. The Courier-Mail reports that in the births section of the newspaper, Yolanda Bogert of Jimboomba placed a light-hearted birth retraction. “In 1995 we announced the arrival…
Director Mischa Kamp’s (Winky’s Horse) critically-acclaimed, award-winning gay romance Boys debuts across all digital platforms including iTunes and WolfeOnDemand beginning Jan. 6, before making its DVD debut Feb. 3 from Wolfe Video. In this beautiful and uplifting drama, two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their…
What a difference a decade makes. In 2004, Poland, a former Soviet bloc country, deeply conservative and deeply Roman Catholic, had just joined the European Union. Bans on gay pride marches were strictly enforced and homosexuality was a cultural taboo that dare not speak its name in public. Fast forward ten years and, as Poland…
On this World AIDS Day, Showtime is debuting a new documentary, The Last One, which shares the history of the AIDS Quilt and also educates the public about how HIV infection rates are climbing once again in both young and older people. Jim Halterman had the pleasure of chatting with activist Cleve Jones last week about…
The Center, Freedom to Marry and Equality California invite the community to a special book launch event for Marc Solomon’s Winning Marriage. In the book, Solomon shares with readers the strategy-setting and decision making tables in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. He reveals the inner-workings of the advocacy movement that…
Applications are now being accepted for the The Douglas P. Lathrop Scholarship for the Disabled, founded this past year to honor a greatly loved member of the LGBT and disability community. The Scholarship is available to students with a permanent mobility disability. Mobility impairment refers to the inability of a person to use one or…
Legendary Olympic diver and gold medalist Greg Louganis is bringing the global challenge of living with HIV to light. Teaming with the United Nations agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO) he introduces a series of video messages portraying discrimination and even deportation of HIV positive adults. Released today, World AIDS Day, the videos promote the…
In honor of World AIDS Day, HRC released the following statement by Jeff Krehely, Vice President and Chief Foundation Officer: “With significant medical breakthroughs since World AIDS Day was first conceived in 1987, our community should be well on the path toward ending HIV. Sadly, the reality is that incidence of HIV is on the…
