SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Can you live on a food budget of $4.18 a day? That’s the average amount that hundreds of thousands of San Diego County residents receive in the form of CalFresh to help put food on their tables. CalFresh is California’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), one of our…
China — For the first time, a Chinese court will hear a challenge against “gay conversion therapy.” This is in a country where same-sex relations were only removed from the list of mental illnesses in the early 2000s, reports GayAsia News.com. Gay rights activists say this could be a legal milestone in their fight to…
Today seven same-sex couples in North Dakota filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the state’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. Before today, North Dakota was the last remaining state with a marriage ban and no court case challenging it. The case was filed by Minneapolis attorney Josh Newville, who recently filed a similar case…
SAN DIEGO — Up to 400 San Diego youth may get to attend the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) summer show LUV Madonna—Music of the Material Girl free of charge thanks to a $5,000 matching grant to its “Be a Chorus Hero” program. “We are excited to have this opportunity to reach out to…
Last night, a federal judge ruled that Idaho’s ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional. In her ruling flagwrote, “Idaho’s Marriage Laws withhold from them a profound and personal choice, one that most can take for granted. By doing so, Idaho’s Marriage Laws deny same-sex couples the economic, practical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of marriage, relegating…
SAN DIEGO – As San Diego Opera nears its $1 million fundraising goal from the community ahead of the May 19, 2014, deadline, a group of donors have announced a matching gift challenge to invite the community to double the impact of their contribution to San Diego Opera’s 2015 season. Board Members Gloria Rasmussen and…
Toni Atkins, the incumbent in the race for California Assembly District 78 represents the highest concentration of LGBT residents in San Diego. An icon in the LGBT community she soundly beat Republican Ralph Denney in the 2012 general election garnering more than 60 percent of the vote. Atkins was elected speaker of the assembly and…
Since its now famous dual rulings on same-sex marriage –striking down both Prop. 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – the United States Supreme Court has ushered in an era of challenges to same-sex marriage bans across the United States. No fewer than ten states have had their constitutional bans struck down…
The phrase “throw down the gauntlet” means to issue a challenge. In medieval times, a knight would throw his metal glove, the gauntlet, to the ground to issue a challenge to another knight. If the knight accepted the challenge, he would “take up the gauntlet.” Well I am throwing down the gauntlet this political season….
Following the controversy surrounding RuPaul’s Drag Race use of the term “she-m***”, Logo TV have pulled the episode featuring a mini-challenge on the show titled “Female or She-male,” and issued an apology. In the mini-challenge, contestants were asked to identify whether a photo showed a cisgender (non trans) woman or a former “Drag Race” contestant…
