Tuesday, July 21, 2026
HRC releases 2018 Buyer’s Guide just in time for holiday shopping season
LGBT Congressional Staff Association joins call for action to address sexual harassment
Jeff Sessions joins anti-LGBTQ Heritage Foundation in a closed door meeting
Fourth annual Truth Awards to honor and recognize African Americans in the LGBTQ community

LGBT Weekly

HRC releases 2018 Buyer’s Guide just in time for holiday shopping season
LGBT Congressional Staff Association joins call for action to address sexual harassment
Jeff Sessions joins anti-LGBTQ Heritage Foundation in a closed door meeting
Fourth annual Truth Awards to honor and recognize African Americans in the LGBTQ community

LGBT Weekly

Headlines

HRC releases 2018 Buyer’s Guide just in time for holiday shopping season

LGBT Congressional Staff Association joins call for action to address sexual harassment

Jeff Sessions joins anti-LGBTQ Heritage Foundation in a closed door meeting

Fourth annual Truth Awards to honor and recognize African Americans in the LGBTQ community

Sen. Toni Atkins to become first woman to lead California Senate

HRC joins allies to demand a clean DREAM Act

Sen. Tammy Baldwin honored with Jose Julio Sarria Civil Rights Award

The Studio Door’s latest exhibition to focus on local emerging and professional artists

Civil and Human Rights Coalition speaks out on US failure to address misconduct by law enforcement officers

Australian Parliament legalizes marriage equality

California

Therese M. Stewart poised to become the first out lesbian justice on the California Court of Appeal

Steve Lee, Editor03 mins

SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has announced that he has appointed San Francisco Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese M. Stewart to serve as a justice on the California Court of Appeal, on the First District Court’s Division Two.  The appointment, made during San Francisco’s LGBT Pride weekend, marks an appropriately historic milestone for California’s judiciary as well as its LGBT community: Stewart will…

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Toni Atkins sworn in as first lesbian Assembly speaker

Steve Lee, Editor03 mins

San Diego’s leaders and public officials flooded the hall at the Balboa Park Club Friday as Assemblywoman Toni Atkins was ceremonially sworn in as this city’s first speaker of the assembly and the California State Assembly’s first lesbian speaker. Even though Atkins’ official swearing in happened last month in Sacramento, a jubilant atmosphere filled the…

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Long Beach elects first openly gay and Latino mayor

Steve Lee, Editor02 mins

Residents of Long Beach, Ca. on Tuesday elected Robert Garcia their next mayor, making him the city’s first openly gay and Latino chief executive, reports the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. Garcia defeated opponent Damon Dunn, capturing 52.1% of the vote to Dunn’s 47.9%. Garcia immigrated to the United States from Peru with his family…

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The attempts to demonize pro-equality Republicans

LGBT Weekly134 mins

Many of you have asked me if the publisher of San Diego LGBT Weekly, Stampp Corbin is obsessed with pro-equality Republicans as his commentary last week was about the twelfth time he has blasted pro-equality Republicans, Mayor Kevin Faulconer and their GLBT supporters. In fact, Stampp has tried to paint Mayor Faulconer’s supporters as “prostitutes”…

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One Toyota of Oakland to run first-of-its-kind car commercial featuring a same-sex couple (VIDEO)

Steve Lee, Editor03 mins

One Toyota, an Oakland, California-based dealership quietly began running a new television ad in the San Francisco Bay area that features, for the first time in the United States, a same-sex couple exclusively for a car commercial. The spot shows a middle-class woman sitting in her driveway speaking to someone else about her new purchase,…

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