Steven Bell’s ‘Tough Love’ web series back for third season (VIDEO)

Tough Love Season 3 Official Trailer from ToughLoveSeries on Vimeo. Steven Bell’s comic web-series Tough Love is back for a third season. States the Web site, Tough Love is a show about two friends learning to live with the other’s quirks. Steven is a perfectionist with an affinity for cats, and a natural aversion to…

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POV celebrates three-decade partnership with Women Make Movies by shining a spotlight on four groundbreaking films

In celebration of its three-decade partnership with Women Make Movies (WMM) and in honor of Women’s History Month in March, the documentary series POV (Point of View) is spotlighting four groundbreaking WMM films. The documentaries are streaming on POV’s website and are available in its lending library for select community screenings through April 10, 2016. The…

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Chris Christie endorses Donald Trump

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today endorsed his former rival, Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. The Advocate reported that Christie pointed to his family’s long friendship with Trump’s family, saying that he finalized his endorsement the day before, concluding that Trump was the best candidate to ensure that “Hillary Clinton doesn’t get within…

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How Fox News celebrates Black History Month (VIDEO)

As Black History Month is winding down, Media Matters for America (MMA) looked at Fox News coverage for the past few weeks. It’s pretty grim as MMA reports, “… Fox News has spent February peddling racist tropes about the black community. Fox personalities and guests repeated racist canards about black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births, and “black behavior,” mocked a…

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Coalition of Latino organizations releases LGBTQ-inclusive policy recommendations to presidential candidates and federal policymakers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of 40 of the nation’s preeminent Latino advocacy organizations, released its quadrennial Hispanic Public Policy Agenda yesterday, a comprehensive outline of the policy concerns and priorities of the nation’s Latino community. The coalition urged the candidates for president, along with Congress and the current…

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New poll shows little support for ‘religious refusal’ bills that allow businesses to discriminate

New polling released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute last week involving more than 42,000 interviews in all 50 states found little support for so-called “religious refusal” bills that would allow a small business owner to deny service to LGBT people for religious reasons. Only 35 percent supported such a bill while 59 percent…

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Edie Windsor and Jim Obergefell to be honored at the nation’s biggest LGBT military event of the year

WASHINGTON — Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) announced that Edie Windsor, the lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, and Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, will be honored at the 3rd Annual AMPA National Gala, presented by USAA — the nation’s biggest LGBT military event of the year. Both…

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