President Barack Obama today announced his intention to appoint fourteen individuals to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), including two who are openly LGBT, reports HRC. Actor Maulik Pancholy, best known for his roles on 30 Rock and Weeds, and businessman Michael Byun, who also serves on the Ohio Governor’s…
THAILAND — A Thai Buddhist monk who is gay and a former cross-dresser has gone on public television to say there is nothing wrong with gay people becoming Buddhist monks, causing much controversy in Thailand where Buddhism is the primary religion and has special status, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “I am who I am, and I’m not…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera Board Acting President Carol Lazier has announced that Ian Campbell, general and artistic director and CEO of the San Diego Opera, and Ann Spira Campbell, deputy general director, have been placed on leave. April 18, after hearing from a Special Committee of the Board, the newly reconstituted Board announced…
A new report from the Williams Institute, a progressive think tank on the campus of UCLA, shows that Utah stands to gain significant financial advantage, increase tourism and create jobs if it were, in fact, to legalize same-sex marriage. The authors, E.G. Fitzgerald, Christy Mallory and M.V. Lee Badgett, have released a report entitled “Estimating…
SAN DIEGO — Tickets are now on sale for the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus’ (SDGMC) biggest show ever, LUV Madonna—Music of the Material Girl. The spectacular two-show Madonna tribute will kick off San Diego’s Pride Week at the chorus’ new home, the historic Balboa Theatre July 12 and 13. “If you’ve ever seen a…
Today, TIME Magazine unveiled its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Among the notable inclusions was Jason Collins for his brave step decision to come out while still active in a major U.S. sports league. Chelsea Clinton, a friend of Collins’ since their days at Stanford University, wrote the article about…
COLOMBO — A federal government minister has categorically ruled out marriage between same-sex couples in the island nation of Sri Lanka, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The Sri Lankan government will not legalize gay marriages in Sri Lanka, said Economic Affairs Minister Basil Rajapaksa according to colombogazette.com. Speaking to newspaper editors in Colombo April 24, the minister said…
The Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs has grown over the years to one of the “must” weekends for women. This year there were several simultaneous events between April 3-6 and we had the opportunity to attend the Palm Springs Women’s Jazz Festival hosted by L&G Events and A Touch of Seduction Latin, hip-hop and…
DiversityInc announced the results for its 14th annual Top 50 Companies for Diversity rankings before a gathering of more than 750 attendees last evening at Cipriani Wall Street. More than a thousand public and privately held companies competed for spots on the coveted list. AT&T claimed the top spot in DiversityInc.’s 2014 Specialty Top 10…
