San Diego LGBT Weekly won a record 20 awards at last night’s San Diego Press club’s 44th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. With these awards, LGBT Weekly has now won a total of 77 awards for journalism excellence since it was founded in 2010. Over 400 press and PR professionals mingled among 18 restaurants, nine…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — California State University, Los Angeles honored a civil rights legend and an education champion, and celebrated two outstanding student-athletes during the 20th Billie Jean King & Friends Gala. Legendary labor union trailblazer Dolores Huerta was awarded the California State University, Los Angeles Presidential Medallion and STEM education leader Tam O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D.,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced the lineup for the 21st annual HRC National Dinner set to take place this Saturday, October 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will join trailblazing activist and athlete Billie Jean King, multi-platinum selling band DNCE, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, and many more…
A remastered version of George’s stunning 1996 MTV Unplugged performance is available as an album for the very first time as part of the Deluxe box set, 2CD and digital editions. The concert took place at the Three Mills Island Studios in East London on Friday 11 October, 1996 and featured George playing ten of…
LOS ANGELES, Calif.– Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to dismiss and a motion opposing emergency relief in Stockman v. Trump, the transgender military ban suit filed on behalf of Equality California (EQCA) members and seven individual plaintiffs being harmed by the ban. EQCA along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal…
ANAHEIM Calif. — In what can be described as a “primary before the primary,” 350 stewards, local leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, voted Sunday to endorse and direct the politically active union’s energies and resources to back the campaign of Gavin Newsom in the 2018 California governor’s race. The NUHW leaders voted…
Many people in the United States still report feeling harassed, bullied or discriminated against based on their race, gender, disability, age, religion or sexual orientation. This is particularly true for LGBTQ youth. According to GLSEN, 57.6 percent of LGBTQ students report feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and 85.2 percent experience verbal…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – At its 45th Anniversary Gala Saturday, Oct. 21, The San Diego LGBT Community Center announced that it has received an unprecedented $2 million matching gift opportunity. Thanks to the generosity of Ron Bowman, with his husband Stan Zukowfsky, all donations to The Center during the organization’s end-of-year fundraising campaign will be…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Last week, Georgia State Representative Betty Price, who is married to the former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, asked the head of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s HIV epidemiology section what officials are “legally able to do” to limit the spread of HIV throughout the state. She went on…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Following an Emmy Award-winning ninth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Mama Ru is back with season three of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” featuring some of the most sickening queens to ever take the “Drag Race” runway. RuPaul revealed the nine returning queens during an hour-long televised pre-season episode, which also included a special interview…
