The a capella singing movie Pitch Perfect 2 certainly hit all the right notes on its debut weekend taking in $70.3 million at the box office in the U.S. and Canada according to Rentrack. The Elizabeth Banks-directed sequel to the 2012 hit beat out George Miller’s critically acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road which landed a…
Thursday, by a vote of 43 to 25, the New Jersey Assembly passed the New Jersey Gestational Carrier Agreement Act – an important bill that would modernize New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights and duties of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth. The bill will now…
Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, has become the first EU leader to wed a same-sex partner. According to The Huffington Post, Bettel and his husband, Gauthier Destenay, were among the first couples to marry under a recent marriage equality law that went into effect earlier this year. “I could have hidden it or repressed it…
Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 16, authored by Assemblymembers Richard Bloom, Eduardo Garcia and Evan Low and sponsored by Equality California, has been introduced in the State Assembly in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new blood donor guidelines that continue to discriminate against gay and bisexual men. The new proposed FDA guidelines would…
The UN Human Rights Office has launched a new video as part of its Free & Equal campaign against homophobia and transphobia in recognition of today’s International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT). The new 2-minute video, “Faces”, celebrates the contributions that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people make to families and local…
President Barack Obama made the following statement on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT): Michelle and I join our fellow Americans and others around the world in commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia tomorrow, May 17. We take this opportunity to reaffirm that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are…
TORONTO — Creator and writer of Amazon’s multi-Golden Globe award-winning series Transparent Jill Soloway and Amazon Studios, are both set to be honored at the upcoming Banff World Media Festival. Soloway will be presented with BANFF’s Showrunner of the Year Award for her accomplishments on her award winning series Transparent. Soloway will receive the Award…
STILLWATER, Minn. – Inspired by the pages of her personal journal and extensive research, Barbara Tako, two-time cancer survivor shares her journey to work through her cancer experiences. Tako’s new release, Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools – We’ll get you through this: Tools for cancer’s emotional pain from a breast cancer and melanoma survivor, focuses on…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has joined the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) to urge the Obama Administration to take additional action against Gambian leaders as the regime continues to persecute LGBT citizens, calling on the White House to condemn the horrific human rights abuses taking place…
WASHINGTON –– Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released a video celebrating the eleventh-annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOT). This year’s IDAHOT theme is “youth,” celebrating LGBT youth and their contributions to their communities. In the video, HRC’s youth ambassadors…
