WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari in cases from four states regarding state bans on marriage for same-sex couples. In due time, the highest court in the land will be asked to decide whether the U.S. Constitution allows for states to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples by…
Fox News Sunday will host a debate on same-sex marriage featuring a anti-gay hate group leader who’s known for peddling lies and smears about the LGBT community, reports Media Matters for America. Jan. 18, Fox News Sunday is scheduled to host a debate on same-sex marriage featuring Ted Olson, a prominent pro-equality attorney, and Tony Perkins, president of…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the composer’s take on the tale of the fictional libertine and seducer Don Juan, is San Diego Opera’s second mainstage opera of the 2014-2015 season when it opens Saturday, Feb. 14 for four performances (Feb. 14, 17, 20 and 22). Don Giovanni is a tale of…
Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t often read press about herself, she explained this week on The Ellen DeGenerous Show. Yet, she made an exception after hearing about pastor Larry Tomczak’s op-ed in the Christian Post. The op-ed, titled “Are You Aware of the Avalanche of Gay Programming Assaulting Your Home?,” is a basic homophobic screed, which lists…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has condemned the decision by the chief executive of Saks Fifth Avenue’s parent company to decline to renounce Saks’ claim that transgender Americans are not protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In an interview with the New York Times, Gerald L. Storch of…
If you Google the Rev. Troy Perry and Phil Wilson you will immediately know why they will both be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the eighth annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast to be held Thursday, May 21 at the Hilton Hotel by the Bay. Rev. Troy Perry is the founder of the worldwide Metropolitan…
Selma, the film about Martin Luther King and the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, is an extraordinary film: wrenching, inspiring and impeccably made. As a depiction of one of the most important events of the Civil Rights Movement, it is also more socially and politically relevant to our contemporary world than any feature film…
Oh the trials of writing a weekly political print column. Last week, in the day between submitting my big questions for the year and printing them, Sen. Barbara Boxer answered one of them by announcing she would not seek re-election in 2016. Since then, some of the major players have stolen my opportunity for impressive…
Steal Heaven, the new play at San Diego REPertory Theatre takes us to the afterlife where political and social activist, Abbie Hoffman, who co-founded the Youth International Party (“Yippies”) in 1968, is an activist guru in heaven. He has the power to send someone in purgatory back to Earth if they pass his training. He…
If there ever is an object lesson about vetting leadership for transgender specific organizations, Allison Woolbert’s elevation to executive director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute (THRI) start-up nonprofit and creation of the Trans* Violence Tracking Portal (TVTP) should be that lesson. Allison Woolbert recently resigned as executive director of Transgender Human Rights Institute (THRI)…
