Since 2010, when New Jersey was chosen to host Super Bowl XLVIII, business leaders have been building the infrastructure for a successful event. Rooms have been booked. Travel plans have been made. Pipelines have been built to guarantee enough product. For T-shirts, that’s great. For liquor, it’s at least legal. For victims of human trafficking,…
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee (SF Pride) is pleased to announce George Ridgely as its new executive director. Ridgely brings 11 years of event director and executive director experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors to the job which he began on January 7. Ridgely served…
One of two men who assaulted a gay man in a North Park alley on Halloween in 2010 lost his bids to reduce his felony conviction to a misdemeanor and to terminate his probation early. Michael John Brandon, now 26 and from Santee, made the requests through his attorney, Dana Feuling before San Diego Superior…
In a somewhat similar way to Pvt. Chelsea Manning’s choice to willfully violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for what she hoped would be for a greater good, I know what it’s like to willfully violate the UCMJ for what I hoped would be for a greater good. Our choices too were similar…
(CNN) – A military judge has found Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, not guilty of aiding the enemy – a charge that would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison. Manning was also found not guilty of unauthorized possession of information relating to national…
Political parties have until July 20 to give unlimited campaign contributions in San Diego City Council races because of Tuesday’s 7-1 Council vote that will limit donations to $20,000 in citywide races, and $10,000 in Council district elections. The easy vote by the Council’s 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans for campaign limits did not go…
By LZ Granderson Editor’s note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. (CNN) — Remember when…
(CNN) — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, plans to run for re-election next year as a Democrat, his office confirmed Wednesday to CNN. The first-term governor became the first governor in the state’s history to serve as an independent when he was elected in 2010. Christian Vareika, a spokesman for Chafee, said the…
(CNN Belief Blog) — The Christian Broadcasting Network regrets the misunderstanding. Again. Pat Robertson, the network’s 83-year-old founder, was not condoning adultery when he answered a viewer’s question on “The 700 Club” this week, the network said. The viewer said she was having difficulty forgiving her husband for cheating. Robertson said the “secret” was to…
(CNN) — Franklin Graham, one of the country’s most prominent evangelicals, says the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service included two of his ministries. “I am bringing this to your attention because I believe that someone in the administration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us,” Graham wrote in a letter Tuesday…
