The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) recognized pro-LGBT pop sensation Lady Gaga at their annual dinner Monday night in Washington D.C. Gaga received the Randy Shilts Visibility Award as a result of her vocal opposition to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy – a protest firmly in keeping with the SLDN’s goals and interests. Although…
The Survey Data Inclusion Act (SB 416), the first bill in the country to include questions of gender identity, same-sex relationship status and sexual orientation in state government surveys, cleared the California Senate Governmental Organization committee 7-5. The historic bill, authored by Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) and sponsored by Equality California, would require the…
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced its intention to stand with GLAAD and promote anti-bullying messages. The partnership comes after wrestler John Cena made a number of televised comments that many viewers considered anti-gay. Cena’s comments, made in the context of the program WWE Raw, included negative implications of homosexuality in reference to Dwayne “The…
Former SNL star and 30 Rock creator Tina Fey fielded a string of “what if” questions during Andy Cohen’s gay quiz at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York. According to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Fey teamed up with Cohen, the openly gay host of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live program, to put on…
Pop megastar Lady Gaga made a surprise appearance this past weekend at Connection, a gay bar in Louisville, Kentucky. The vocally pro-LGBT singer showed up unexpectedly at Connection after performing at the Louisville KFC Center earlier in the evening. According to TMZ, Gaga joined impersonators taking part in a Lady Gaga drag show and joined…
As part of its 2012 Election news coverage, ThinkProgress reported yesterday that possible Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his associates contributed more than $850,000 to a 2010 campaign against the three Iowa Supreme Court justices supported marriage equality. The report follows evidence that Gingrich also gave $200,000 to the anti-marriage equality group Iowa for…
A 52-second video entitled “Taco Shop Drag Queen Tranny Brawl” has gone viral. The brief video, shot around 2:10 am on March 2 at La Fuente Mexican Grill and Seafood on University Avenue, features several scantily sequin-clad men kicking and hitting one another in a raucous brawl. Since hitting the web, the YouTube video has…
USC law professor David B. Cruz is scheduled to give a presentation on current legal issues surrounding constitutional law, LGBT marriage rights and sex & gender law on Thursday, March 17 at California Western School of Law. The presentation is an entry in the school’s Diversity Speaker Series, a 2009 initiative aimed at developing and…
Brett Berk and the editors of Vanity Fair magazine have issued apologies for using the word “fag” in a recent online article about the popular musical television show Glee. The word has been removed from the piece, and GLAAD has since commended Vanity Fair for the “tone of respect” used in the printed retraction. Berk,…
Dr. Delores A. Jacobs of the San Diego LGBT Community Center announced today that the Center’s current Director of Public Affairs, Carlos Marquez, would step down in order to accept the position of executive director at Honor Fund. Honor Fund is a L.A.-based non-profit that seeks to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between Latino and LGBT…
