You have to give it to Marvel Comics, just in time for Comic-Con next week, the company announces that Thor will be a woman going forward. No not a female version of Thor, but actually Thor. Marvel sought the best audience possible to make the announcement; ABC’s female-centric talk show The View. Who is this…
Archie Andrews, a staple of American comics since 1941, will die in Wednesday’s issue of Life with Archie, reports theverge.com. And he’ll say goodbye to the series with one last act of heroism: Archie will take a bullet meant for best friend Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in his comic universe. In doing so, he’ll…
HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today the availability of $11 million, through the Affordable Care Act and the Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative Fund, to support the integration of high‐quality HIV services into primary care through innovative partnerships between health centers and state health departments in Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York. This initiative supports…
NEW YORK —More than 50 legal scholars have strongly urged President Obama to resist calls for an overly broad religious exemption in a proposed executive order prohibiting sexual orientation and/or gender identity discrimination by federal contractors. The effort is being spearheaded by Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, as part of its recently…
SINGAPORE –– Singapore’s highest court is hearing the case of a gay couple appealing against the dismissal of their challenge that the anti-gay ‘Section 377A’ law is unconstitutional, reports GayAsiaNews.com. A two-day hearing before a three-judge panel began July 14 as lawyers for Kenneth Chee and Gary Lim argued that the ban, first adopted under…
http://youtu.be/DaFDrGi4Rno INDIA — The trailer of India’s upcoming independent crowd-funded Hindi film called My Son is Gay has been released with a call for funds, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The film, directed by Lokesh, an independent film maker explores the emotional journey of a mother who gets to know that her son is gay and struggles to…
From the White House blog comes this post by Todd Larson. With June’s Pride month celebrations behind us, I reflect on the reasons I celebrated. Reverberations continue from President Obama’s ground-breaking Memorandum of December 2011, which outlined the U.S. Government’s commitment to the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) folks around the world….
San Diego commercial photographer, Grey Lockwood, will be opening his home studio in the heart of Hillcrest to anyone who would like a professional individual or couple portrait shot during Pride weekend – free of charge*. “I’ve been a Hillcrest resident for three years and originally thought of the idea as a way to give…
San Diego Pride’s official cultural event, Expressions of Pride, will kick off the 40th anniversary Pride weekend with a free exhibition and literary festival organized by the LGBT Literary Foundation and Lambda Archives the Friday afternoon of Pride weekend (July 18) before the Stonewall Rally and Awards. The exhibition will be open 1-5 p.m. at the Diversionary…
SAN DIEGO — Westfield Horton Plaza and Westfield Mission Valley shopping centers have announced their partnership with GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, to offer in-center initiatives in celebration of San Diego LGBT Pride Friday, July 11 through Monday, July 21. The centers will show their support with fun,…
