http://youtu.be/9I4Ny1RrXSk WASHINGTON – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military personnel, today announced the selection of transgender Army veteran Allyson Robinson to lead the newly combined organization. The organizations will formally merge this weekend. A graduate of West Point, Robinson commanded Patriot missile units in Europe and the…
Equality California and its Board of Directors announced today that John O’Connor, a seasoned nonprofit executive with deep ties in the LGBT community, will serve as the new executive director of Equality California and Equality California Institute. O’Connor will begin his tenure Dec. 3. “I am honored to lead Equality California forward as the statewide…
BY CASEY PICK, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans In response to the many comments about the Log Cabin Republicans‘ qualified endorsement of Mitt Romney, Casey Pick, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans replies with the following commentary: I knew what we were in for when Log Cabin Republicans made the…
BY NED FLAHERTY, project manager for Marriage Equality USA. Following The Log Cabin Republicans’ endorsement of Mitt Romney, Ned Flaherty, project manager for Marriage Equality USA, analyses how this group have now abandoned gay rights entirely. Flaherty created the Election 2012 project, which was developed to show 12 major ways in which LGBTIQ people still…
Congressman Barney Frank today released a statement in response to the announcement by the Log Cabin Republicans that they are endorsing Mitt Romney to be President of the United States. The endorsement was announced only one day after the release of an essay by Congressman Frank, that has been published in full on LGBTweekly.com, in…
BY STAMPP CORBIN San Diego LGBT Weekly has exclusively obtained a memorandum sent from Competitive Edge, a firm that specializes in political polling, campaign voter contact and grassroots advocacy. The memo, dated October 17, 2012 and addressed to Tony Krvaric of the Republican Party of San Diego, says that the mayoral race is tied. The…
BY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK October 22, 2012 The upcoming elections will be the most important in our history from the standpoint of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. In decades, there has not been a sharper distinction between the two parties on any issue than there is today on LGBT legal equality….
BY JONATHAN YOUNG Lance Bass is accustomed to being in the spotlight. He’s performed with the record-breaking NSYNC, trained to be an astronaut, cut a rug with swing dance champ Lacey Schwimmer on Dancing with the Stars and has revealed to the world he is gay with a cover story in People magazine – just…
bookwatch BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER BOOK REVIEW Return to The Big Fancy by Freeman Hall 012, Adams Media $22.95 / $23.99 Canada 272 pages The holidays are coming. That means you’ll need a little extra. Extra time to go gift-shopping, for sure, and extra closet space in which to hide packages. More importantly, you’ll need extra…
When I decided to launch San Diego LGBT Weekly, the goal was to ensure that San Diego had an independent media voice in the LGBT community. A voice that was laser focused upon the issues that matter most to us, whether they are political, news-related or simply fun entertainment stories. We began our journey with…
