LGBT Pride honors San Diegans each year, based on their activism and support given to the LGBT community. This year’s honorees will be publicly recognized at Pride’s Spirit of Stonewall rally, scheduled for 6:30 p.m., July 15, at the main festival stage at Marston Point in Balboa Park. The 2011 Stonewall Honorees include: Larry Baza…
Democratic senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry recently penned an op-ed for the Boston Globe in which he takes on pundits who have criticized President Obama’s “evolving” views on gay marriage and accuses them of stirring up a “phony debate about a real issue.” Today, Senator Kerry is an avowed supporter of marriage…
New York City officials announced plans this week to extend the gesture of opening city clerk’s offices on Sunday, July 24 in order for gay couples to marry on the day that the same-sex marriage law goes into effect. According to The New York Times, a number of clerk’s offices throughout the city will be…
James Taylor, a Southwest Airlines pilot based in Argyle, Texas, issued a written apology Tuesday after accidentally recording an extended anti-gay and discriminatory conversation on the FAA’s radio system last week. MSNBC reports that Taylor unintentionally left his microphone on during a conversation in the cockpit, during which complained about a surfeit of “gays, grannies…
Summer is here and San Diego Pride is coming. Our parade is the biggest civic parade of all of the annual parades in the entire City of San Diego. Another lie I know it’s become very obvious that a certain gay media outlet is on the attack when it comes to me and those who…
When two writers on The Carol Burnett Show created Thelma Harper – better known as Mama, the cranky, acid-tongued curmudgeon with brutally honest observations about life – little did they know it would change Vicki Lawrence’s career. “She was written as a one-time sketch by two of the writers on Carol’s show,” Lawrence told the…
Rick Welts, president of the Phoenix Suns, has broken the silence surrounding gay players and execs within the National Basketball Association in hopes his revelation will inspire others to come out. The news comes in wake of a private meeting Welts held last week with NBA commissioner David Stern. The meeting, originally held to discuss…
Tonight, Wednesday May 4, the Palm Springs City Council will vote on a resolution to formally support same-sex marriage. While the resolution would not have any legal impact, it could still lead to regional and possibly even state-wide change for marriage equality.If passed, the resolution would make Palm Springs one of only a handful of…
In a historical motion, openly gay candidate Taiga Ishikawa has won a seat in Japanese politics – he will sit in the Toshima Ward Assembly as the country’s first openly gay elected official. Ishikawa has been a long-time advocate of the LGBT community, publishing books on the topic including “Where is My Boyfriend?” in 2002…
Wedding nuptials used to be fairly traditional: couples exchange rings, say “I do” and live happily ever after. But that was so 2010. Enter celebrity-infused wedding bliss. Indeed – your favorite celebrity can, in fact, marry you – and it’s the hottest trend to hit the wedding scene since thrown rice. While you may have…
