NEW YORK – For the first time ever, gay Americans can toast Pride Month with a wine specially created to celebrate LGBT equality. Égalité, the first nationally-distributed wine created in support of equality for gay Americans, is now available nationwide. “With the recent influx of states legalizing same-sex marriage and more expected to follow suit…
WASHINGTON – The White House has announced its intention to nominate Daniel Baer – the current deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – as the next ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). If confirmed, Baer would become the 4th openly-LGBT person to serve as…
http://youtu.be/osoHJdAnu2M Jason Collins, The NBA player, who made history in April as the first male U.S. athlete in a major professional sport to come out as gay, marched in the 2013 Boston Pride Parade on Saturday alongside his former Stanford University roommate, Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-Mass), reports Huff Post Gay Voices. After the parade, Kennedy tweeted…
LOS ANGELES — For the first time, a delegation from the California National Guard, led by its Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, took part in L.A. Pride, joining Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), the first openly gay person elected official to lead a state house, in yesterdays Pride Parade. The California National…
Care with Pride, an innovative anti-bullying program launched in 2012 between PFLAG and Johnson & Johnson is back for 2013. This year, the Care with Pride campaign is honoring PFLAG’s founder, Jeanne Manford, who passed away in January at the age of 92. In 1972, Jeanne Manford courageously faced down bigotry and showed support for…
NEW YORK – The winners of the 25th annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in a sold-out gala ceremony hosted by comedienne Kate Clinton at The Great Hall at Cooper Union. Taking place just after BookExpo America, – the book publishing industry’s largest annual gathering of booksellers, publishers, authors, and readers – the Lambda ceremony brought…
Salt Lake City, Utah (KSTU/CNN) — Thousands of people descended on Salt Lake City Sunday for the annual Gay Pride Parade, and this year’s parade was a little different as it comes on the heels of a major change to the Boy Scouts of America’s policy on openly gay members. This year’s pride parade saw…
Today President Barack Obama signed the following proclamation regarding LGBT Pride Month, 2013. For more than two centuries, our Nation has struggled to transform the ideals of liberty and equality from founding promise into lasting reality. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans and their allies have been hard at work on the next great chapter of that…
Tartan Yachts will be building 20 boats so the sailors can compete in the 2014 Gay Games presented by the Cleveland Foundation. It’s the first time in Gay Games history that an entire fleet of boats is being built by the same manufacturer specifically for use at the Gay Games. “We couldn’t have offered sailing without such significant…
WASHINGTON — A recent article in the American Journal of Public Health analyzed nationally representative survey results and found that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) adults smoke cigarettes at rates that are nearly 70 percent higher than the general population. A new study from Legacy, a national public health nonprofit located in Washington, D.C.,…
