NEW YORK, N.Y. — Monday, SAGE, the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, held its 22nd Annual Awards & Gala, which celebrated SAGE’s national achievements and honored three leaders. SAGE also offered a moving tribute to beloved hero and pioneer Edie Windsor and announced the renaming of SAGE…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — SAGE, the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, has announced its 22nd Annual SAGE Awards & Gala will take place Monday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m., at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Honorees this year include: Citi, which will receive the Corporate…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — More than 1,000 people gathered at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront this morning to mark the city’s ninth annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast. The event featured human rights activist Cleve Jones, who was presented with the Harvey Milk Lifetime Achievement Award, and Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, who received the Champion of…
LGBTQ icon to receive Harvey Milk Lifetime Achievement Award May 19 in San Diego Cleve Jones is over it. Jones is also at the center of it, the pinnacle of it. In some ways, leader of at least three movements – labor, as well as civil and human rights – Jones is also on the…
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced that the ninth annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast will take place Friday, May 19, at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton. The event will feature human rights activist Cleve Jones, who will be presented with the Harvey Milk Lifetime Achievement Award, and Bishop Yvette A….
KEY WEST, Florida Keys — The Key West community is remembering Gilbert Baker, the creator of the iconic LGBT rainbow flag, who passed last week in New York City. On June 15, 2003, at that year’s Key West PrideFest, a special 25th anniversary edition of the banner was unfurled on Duval Street. A mile-and-a-quarter in…
Gilbert Baker, the openly gay artist and civil rights activist who designed the rainbow flag has died at the age of 65. Fellow activist and friend, Cleve Jones broke the news in a tweet writing, “My dearest friend in the world is gone. Gilbert Baker gave the world the Rainbow Flag; he gave me forty…
When I heard that ABC was going to do an eight-hour miniseries about the gay rights movement – a sort of Roots for the gays – I was shocked. Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for writing Milk, was shocked, too, when he found out ABC was asking for LGBT-themed pitches. But he went…
When We Rise, the recent mini-series covering the LGBT civil rights movement should have been entitled The Cleve Jones Story but then even fewer people would have watched. Jones has been a figure in several events during the struggle for LGBT rights, but as with any autobiographical work, the author has an inability to really…
On this World AIDS Day, Showtime is debuting a new documentary, The Last One, which shares the history of the AIDS Quilt and also educates the public about how HIV infection rates are climbing once again in both young and older people. Jim Halterman had the pleasure of chatting with activist Cleve Jones last week about…
