The gay robot strikes again. This time, it’s Michele Bachmann, and the gay robot has a message: “I am a gay robot. I oppose Bachmann’s position on gays, whether they are human or robot.” The message comes in wake of Bachmann’s anti-gay stance against LGBT people. The presidential hopeful did not have much to say…
San Diego LGBT Weekly set out to learn the real meaning of Christmas and on the way, found December is full of meaning for people of many different faiths and non-faiths. One San Diego cleric says it’s about more than gifts under a tree. “Christmas is about sharing – sharing with family and friends,” MCC…
A man who was staying temporarily with Vance Shazier, a “beloved member of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC),” pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of Shazier, 67, in 2009. Thomas Lee Daniel, 40, faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in state prison. San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn set…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) has released Buying for Workplace Equality 2012, the popular annual guide to hundreds of American brands rated on businesses’ treatment of LGBT employees. The guide divides businesses and their consumer products into red, yellow and green categories based on their score on HRC Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index…
WASHINGTON – A new poll recently released by the Human Rights Campaign in partnership with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research has found the vast majority of Americans support employment non-discrimination laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination. In perhaps the most compelling finding, support for employment protections spans an array of demographics including the majority of Democrats,…
VALLETTA, Malta – A study of discrimination in Malta has revealed widespread ignorance of anti- discrimination agencies and legislation and significant victim discomfort in reporting incidences of discrimination. The Times of Malta reported that the survey tackled discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and described several forms of discrimination. Sixty percent of respondents…
Sorry I have not been able to show up at recent events, benefits, parties etc, but I’ve been pretty sick these last weeks and hopefully things will turn around for me. Milk Foundation goes global Last week, I got my sick butt up and went to Palm Springs for a meeting of the Harvey Milk…
dvd of the week One of the great surprises of last summer, the mixed martial arts drama Warrior has a somewhat hard-to-believe plot, but that is subsumed by the intensity and authenticity of the performances and the scenes in the cage. Inception’s Tom Hardy seems to be channeling some cross between Rocky-era Sylvester Stallone and…
dvr this NBC is showing the holiday classic on Christmas Eve. I’m one of the few people who loathe this movie and its terribly conservative love-your-boring-life message, but I know that this may just be my cold, Grinchy heart speaking. So, curl up with some hot cocoa or some mulled wine, snuggle up with whoever…
FOR THOSE OF YOU who are tired of the same old boring morning and evening news shows San Diego has to offer, Aaron Heier and Ophelia Later’s online talk show “He Said, She Said” may be just the twist you need to get you out of your primetime slump. Heier and Later, began their show…
