(CNN) — The deputy speaker of Britain’s House of Commons said Sunday the allegations of rape and sexual assault leveled against him are false. Nigel Evans also said the incident has left him with “a sense of incredulity” because he considered the two accusers his friends. “Yesterday I was interviewed by the police concerning two…
NEW YORK, — Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) today released Health Equity and LGBT Elders of Color, a new report that examines health disparities faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older people of color, and offers policy solutions in 10 areas to address these challenges. The report’s release coincides with National Minority…
WHEATON, Illinois (CNN) — Combing through prayer requests in a Wheaton College chapel in 2010, then-junior Benjamin Matthews decided to do something “absurdly unsafe.” He posted a letter on a public forum bulletin board near students’ post office boxes. In the letter, he came out as gay and encouraged fellow gay Christian students – some…
(CNN) — Science has come a long way since HIV was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some of the most memorable moments in AIDS history. 1981 June 5, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes the first mention of what later is determined to be HIV. The report…
San Diego Opera’s mission of including new and unusual works alongside timeless classics continues when the company presents the West Coast premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon), a mariachi opera, Saturday, March 16, for two performances only at 2 and 7 p.m. The renowned Mariachi Vargas…
(CNN) — The R-rated insult House Speaker John Boehner hurled upon Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week at the White House was a deviation from the normally diplomatic language of official Washington. After all, it isn’t every day that reports emerge of a top lawmaker telling another to “Go f*** yourself.” But it’s certainly…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – What a difference a few months — and a presidential re-election victory — makes. A new CNN Poll of Polls indicates that President Barack Obama‘s approval rating stands at 52 percent, with 43 percent of Americans saying they disapprove of the job the president‘s doing in the White House. That’s a slight…
For the first time, crimes directed against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation are the second most frequent hate crime committed after crimes based on race, according to the 2011 Hate Crimes statistics released yesterday by the FBI as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Surpassing crimes committed on the basis on…
Mexico’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling Wednesday afternoon that paves the way to universal marriage rights in the country. The court ruled on behalf of three same-sex couple seeking to marry in the southern state of Oaxaca and struck down an Oaxaca state law that declares that “one of the purposes of marriage is…
Picture yourself in a room full of people you don’t know. It’s too awkward to stand there alone, so you survey the scene, looking for a group to join. The progression is always the same. Anyone I know? Nope. Anyone who’s like me? Nope. Anyone who looks like they might like people like me? The…
