(CNN) — Actor Ed Helms is the latest celebrity to put his money where his mouth is. “The Office” star has tweeted that he’s no longer a fan of fast food giant Chick-fil-A. Helms made the choice after the restaurant chain’s president and CEO made it known that the company doesn’t support same-sex marriage in…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A 16-year-old girl is recovering from a broken jaw, lost teeth and scrapes and bruises after being viciously attacked by two men in Louisville. The unnamed girl was reportedly walking to a shop with two younger boys when they were approached by four adults. Two men in the group began to shout…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a video ad featuring Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston for its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the video, which also features his wife Robin, and their daughter Taylor, Cranston states, “Gay and lesbian couples should have every right to experience the joys of marriage and family that…
Welcome to the 38th annual San Diego Pride. The San Diego LGBT community is excited to celebrate all that we have accomplished in our pursuit of equality in the last year, and to just have a fantastic party weekend. While the focus is often on the parade, festival, bar events, circuit and pool parties, Pride…
Sitting down to talk with writer-director-executive producer (and one-time British boy-band singing sensation), David W. Ross, you get the sense that queer cinema has long since moved passed its awkward, self-conscious adolescent stage and morphed quite naturally into adulthood. I Do, the latest project from David, addresses one of the many by-products of DOMA, the…
I try to keep my day job out of my column, but sometimes the political scene requires I bring the MD and PhD to bear. With the House effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act making headlines this week, it seemed a good time to talk about a few of the system’s dirty little secrets,…
Every hospital has one hallway that seems seven miles long. I’ve been to many hospitals and even though hospitals don’t all look alike, they all look like hospitals – and every one of them has one corridor that seems like its seven miles long. It doesn’t matter how long the hallway actually is. It doesn’t…
Singer Frank Ocean of Odd Future came out as gay Wednesday after posting a tumblr blog on a same-sex relationship – his first, at the age of 19. Towerload first reported on speculation of Ocean’s homosexuality after some of his songs were addressed to “he” instead of “she.” The R&B singer then came out later…
WASHINGTON, DC – More than 40,000 people have joined an explosive campaign on Change.org calling on Carilion Clinic, owners of the Roanoke Athletic Club in Virginia, to allow children with gay parents to swim in the pool. Mark Lynn Ferguson, a Roanoke native, launched a campaign on Change.org when he saw a local news story…
ARLINGTON, Texas – A group of teens who police believe targeted gays and others by spray-painting slurs and vulgar messages on vehicles and homes this month, have been identified, thanks to home surveillance cameras that caught them in the act, authorities said last week. The Star-Telegram reported that an 18-year-old Fort Worth man has been…
