Today, more than 1,000 San Diegans turned out to the San Diego Bayfront Hilton Hotel to celebrate San Diego’s eighth annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast. Milk became one of the nation’s first openly gay elected officials when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated just 11 months…
Everyone is up in arms about the recent defeat of a pro-LGBT law in Houston called the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance or HERO for short. The issue, known as Proposition 1, was intended to ban discrimination based upon sexual orientation and gender identity by city and private employers, as well as in public accommodations. The…
HRC President Chad Griffin and litigator Roberta Kaplan are featured on the annual Politico 50 list out today. Griffin and Kaplan were both major players in the fight for marriage equality at the Supreme Court last year: Kaplan was Edith Windsor’s lawyer and Griffin was one of the key architects behind the case challenging Prop…
LOS ANGELES — Having served three terms as the mayor of Texas’s largest city, Houston’s Annise Parker has proven she is not going away any time soon. Parker began her career as a very visible lesbian activist during the 1980s. Then, as an openly gay politician, she took the mayor’s office in America’s fourth largest…
NEW YORK — OUT, the world’s leading gay fashion and lifestyle brand, today announced the 8th annual Power 50 list, the brand’s annual ranking of the most influential LGBT voices in American culture. The list examines those who have power, how they wield it, and how it influences our culture. Again this year, OUT’s Power…
WASHINGTON, — Annise Parker, mayor of Houston and member of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, will speak at National Press Club luncheon Dec. 10. In a wide-ranging speech, she’ll talk about doing good in politics, making the energy capital of the U.S. clean and sustainable and fighting discrimination. Parker, a Democrat and one of the first openly…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Freedom to Marry have announced the addition of mayors from Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and San Antonio as new co-chairs of Mayors for the Freedom to Marry and set a goal of reaching 500 mayors representing all 50 states. The program, launched in January 2012 with 80 mayors, now has more than…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced its endorsement of Annise Parker for re-election as mayor of Houston. As mayor of the country’s fourth-largest city, Parker has worked tirelessly and effectively to improve Houston’s economy and provide stellar living conditions for all Houstonians. HRC pointed to Forbes Magazine naming Houston number one on its…
