In a surprising move, the Republican Party of San Diego County endorsed openly gay Councilmember Carl DeMaio in his race to succeed termed out Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders. Two thirds of the 59-member central committee voted Saturday morning to endorse DeMaio over two other Republican candidates: District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, and State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher….
LONDON – Two professional soccer players have been fined for making anti-gay comments on Twitter. Pinknews.co.uk reported that Nile Ranger, a forward for Premier League team Newcastle United and Manny Smith a defender for League One Walsall have been handed fines by the The Football Association (FA), the governing body of English soccer, for their…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called on Mitt Romney Friday to fire his National Finance Chair Frank Vandersloot who has a long history of anti-LGBT extremism, and the organization needs the help of LGBT Americans to petition for his removal. Glenn Greenwald details VanderSloot’s radical positions and points out how Mitt Romney has been the…
Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plummer’ from a 2008 political stint, did not have much to say about anti-gay comments he made in 2009 as CNN host Zoraida Sambolin asked the Republican nominee for Congress on his views of LGBT Americans. The Congressional hopeful accused Sambolin of hosting TMZ as opposed to CNN…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed an historic bill extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state. In a grand signing ceremony in Annapolis O’Malley said, “For a free and diverse people, for a people of many faiths, for a people committed to the principle of religious freedom, the…
Susana Martinez, the Latina Republican governor of New Mexico, needed a new do. Her stylist, a gay man upset by her support of laws against same-sex marriage, refused her service. Is he an activist? Or is he simply as intolerant as she? This was the conundrum posed by a talk-radio host who subscribed affirmatively to…
Former Growing Pains star and evangelist Kirk Cameron is responding to backlash he received in wake of his anti-gay, anti-lesbian remarks of homosexuality being “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive” following his interview with Piers Morgan Friday. The fallen TV idol issued a written statement to ABC News in which he says it’s his mission to love…
Photo Credit: Change.org/Tico Almeida WASHINGTON, DC – More than 100,000 people have joined Tico Almeida’s campaign on Change.org urging President Obama to sign an executive order banning anti-gay discrimination among federal contractors. Tico Almeida, Founder and President of Freedom to Work, started the petition on Change.org to call attention to the millions of workers at…
UnitedGREEN, a movement that engages communities “… in a shared fight for a truly sustainable future,” will hold its second Forging a Sustainable Future (FSF) symposium March 3 and 4 at San Diego State University. This year’s event features several prominent members of the LGBT community among the presenters and organizers. The two-day event will…
