Palm Springs has long been an attractive getaway spot for Southern California coastal urbanites. Escape to the desert for some peace and quiet has long been a theme. In the years this cachet was at its ultimate – the Don Draper ’50s and ’60s, folks came from far and wide. The former glamour now looks…
Wake up. Election Day, Nov. 8, is almost here. The steady supply of publicity about state and local issues and the colossal amount of time and money spent on the presidential race indicate the importance of the outcome. Unfortunately, many people from both sides are unhappy with their party’s choice to the point they may…
First let me state that I think Equality California does great work. However, I have been stunned by the recent Go Vote or Why Vote ads the organization has been running over recent weeks. While the ads show diversity including transgender, deaf, Latino, lesbian and gay people of most ethnicities, I have not seen one…
Advocacy groups have applauded the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Administrator Gayle Smith for ensuring that LGBT people will have equal access to services and aid delivered by contractors and sub-contractors of USAID that work internationally. This policy, announced Wednesday in a speech by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice at American…
NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD has released the tenth edition of its Media Reference Guide, the industry standard style guide for reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and the issues that affect their lives. The newly released tenth edition of the guide includes an updated terminology section and, for the first…
NEWARK, N.J., — Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), a publicly traded diversified energy company, and The Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University have partnered to help provide incentives to New Jersey public high schools interested in offering the LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Initiative to their LGBTQ student population and allies. Through a $10,000 grant from the…
thursday. oct. 27 Kurt Metzger Metzger recently starred on Horace & Pete alongside Alan Alda, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Jessica Lange and Louis C.K. He won his first Emmy (2nd nomination) for his writing on Inside Amy Schumer. He was a consulting producer on the Sundance Channel series The Approval Matrix, the IFC series Benders,…
The La Mesa Library Branch (8074 Allison Ave.) of the San Diego County Library will host the Human Library Nov. 5 from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Visitors to the La Mesa Library will be able to ‘check out’ a living book. The event will host several volunteers who visitors can interact with, ask questions to, and engage…
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a new digital ad featuring Christine Leinonen, the mother of Christopher “Drew” Leinonen — a young man shot and killed along with his boyfriend, Juan Guerrero, and 47 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. In the ad, Christine speaks directly to American voters, saying, “We have to continue moving forward…
U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy announced Tuesday she has appointed a veteran prosecutor to oversee the handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses for the upcoming Nov. 8 election. Duffy named Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio to serve as District Elections Officer for the Southern District of California, a position Tenorio has…
