LOS ANGELES — Grindr, the world’s largest queer mobile social network, today announced changes to its app to be more inclusive of transgender users. The changes include profile fields for gender identity and pronouns, system-wide gender-neutral language, and an FAQ to help non-transgender users interact respectfully. They were informed by a community engagement process that centered…
With a divisive political climate in the United States, marked by an increase in dangerous and hostile rhetoric against the LGBTQ and other marginalized communities, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus cancelled their European tour in favor of taking its message and music on the road across five southern states to promote universal equality and…
Nov. 28, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be apologizing for the history of discrimination by the Government of Canada against LGBTQ2S+ persons. The apology will take place at Parliament Hill in the House of Commons, in Ottawa, ON (Algonquin Territory). “For many of us the apology does not represent the end, but rather the…
Submit your nomination for LGBT History Month 2018 by filling out the form here. The deadline is Friday, Dec. 8. Criteria for choosing LGBT History Month Icons are as follows. They may be living or deceased, recognized for their achievements in their field of endeavor; for their status as a national hero; or for their…
CAPE TOWN/GENEVA—Remarkable progress is being made on HIV treatment. Ahead of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS has launched a new report showing that access to treatment has risen significantly. In 2000, just 685 000 people living with HIV had access to antiretroviral therapy. By June 2017, around 20.9 million people had access to the life-saving medicines. Such…
I suppose I’m at my dorkiest about my stuffed animals. I have my first teddy bear, Buzz. I have the two cats Carol from Connecticut sent: Elga Wasserman (after my first attorney) and the appealingly homely Samo. Of course, I’ve kept the last one my mother gave me, a high femme rabbit in an extraordinary…
Since the election of Donald Trump, most Americans on both sides of the political aisle feel American democracy is under siege. The infighting going on in both the Democratic and Republican camps has cast a pall on the country’s future. And neither party, at present, can tamp down the support nor enthusiasm some have for…
Applications for Equality California (EQCA) Institute’s Leadership Academy (EQCAI) in 2018 are now open. One of EQCAI’s priorities is to develop LGBTQ leaders at all levels of government and business throughout the state. EQCA is proud to have launched the Leadership Academy, generously sponsored by Edison International. The EQCAI Leadership Academy is an innovative program…
It has been another deadly year for trans people, with at least 23 reported homicides in the first ten months of 2017. This is sadly unsurprising in a year that began with the election of a man to the White House who has appointed anti-LGBTQ individuals to his administration and has been littered with more discussions of transphobic legislation in state…
CALIFORNIA —In a significant development in the legal challenge to President Trump’s transgender military ban, last night the U.S. District Court for Central California granted Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s motion to intervene on behalf of the State of California in Stockman v. Trump, a case brought by Equality California and seven individual plaintiffs challenging the ban….
