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Gays can choose to be straight like priests choose celibacy, says Gingrich
Newt Gingrich has a new philosophy: gay people can choose to be straight like priests choose to be celibate. The presidential hopeful told the Des Moines Register editorial board that gays have a “significant range of choice within a genetic pattern” and can therefore make choices as it relates to sexual orientation. When asked whether…
India celebrates Pride events
NEW DELHI – Two Indian cities recently celebrated Gay Pride parades with organizers of both events proudly proclaiming it was a chance to “rejoice that we are here and will always be here.” The 4th annual Bangalore Pride march was held in Bangalore city Sunday, Nov. 27. The march was held from Thulasi Park to…
LGBT-on-LGBT age discrimination
Several recent studies have dealt with the age discrimination and problems senior gays and lesbians face as they age. More often than with the general population, we have no children to take care of us; we have higher breast cancer rates and half of Americans living with HIV will be over 50 by 2015. Lacking,…
Bonnie Dumanis and team earn Workplace Excellence Award
SAN DIEGO — Mayoral Candidate Bonnie Dumanis today announced the District Attorney’s Office has been honored for the fourth year in a row with a Workplace Excellence Award from the San Diego Society for Human Resource Management. Her office won the award for its proactive and innovative succession planning, allowing the government agency to reduce its…
Ron deHarte’s wrongful termination suit from Pride settled quietly
The wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former LGBT Pride executive director, Ron deHarte has been quietly settled out of court, with the amount and terms undisclosed. “I’m pleased with the outcome. I’m not permitted to talk about the settlement,” said deHarte Monday. “I’m not permitted to talk about the case at all.” DeHarte was fired…
Lesbians, gays adopting hard-to-place kids
NEW YORK– Despite laws in some states that impede the practice, a growing number of lesbians and gay men are adopting children in the United States – at least half of them providing families for boys and girls from foster care and 60 percent adopting transracially, according to the results of an extensive new survey…
The Help
dvd of the week I must admit that I walked into The Help expecting to be offended. Because I knew it to be about a young white woman writing a book about the black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Miss., perhaps unfairly I expected it to be a prequel of sorts to the insidiously racist…
Made
dvr this I have no idea how this will turn out, but in the season premiere of Made, MTV’s long-running show about wish fulfillment, a gay teenager is turned into a rapper. Knowing that MTV has long been the most progressive voice for gay rights on TV for 25 years, this episode could be amazing….
Hairspray to Farmer’s Market: Local businesses reboot
With the LGBT consumer and business market no longer stereotyped as full of affluent “DINK” (double-income, no kids) households, companies are finding they have to do more than just be located in a historically LGBT neighborhood, and throw an occasional advertisement in a local LGBT publication to keep community shoppers buying. To build back declining…