COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A petition by some staff and students is calling on the University of Maryland (UM) to kick Chick-fil-A off the College Park campus. The petition on Change.org has collected nearly a 1,000 signatures and asks the university to end its partnership with the chain after its president, Dan Cathy, told a…
MOSCOW (CNN) – Three members of Russian LGBT-supporting feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison Friday after they were found guilty of hooliganism for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church. The five months they have spent in detention since their arrests in March count toward…
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) – A judge Thursday dismissed felony sexual assault charges against a Roman Catholic priest arrested in July on allegations of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in 1997. At Thursday’s preliminary hearing, Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Karen Yvette Simmons dismissed felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and sexual assault charges against Andrew McCormick, 56. Simmons…
The fallout of a weekend water-gun fight at the fabled lily pond in Balboa Park, now being called “Lilygate” includes more than $10,000 in municipal property damage – not to mention the potential to cost one leading mayoral candidate the 2012 election. Candidates Bob Filner, a Democrat and San Diego’s firebrand liberal congressman and City…
The 23rd annual AIDS Walk & Run, the largest one-day HIV/AIDS fundraiser in San Diego County is set for Sunday, Sept. 30. More than a dozen different agencies – serving thousands of clients – rely on funds raised at the annual AIDS Walk to help provide essential prevention and care programs to thousands of men,…
San Diego Pride has put out a call for volunteers to join the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. Relay for Life is a high-spirited event where everyone in the community can join in the fight against cancer. The San Diego Pride team will camp out overnight and take turns walking around the track to…
PROVO, Utah (CNN) – A Utah road sign in Provo was caught on camera flashing the text “GOD HATES GAYS.” The video was taken last week on University Avenue near the Provo town center. It’s an area with a lot of road work going on, but at the time the video was taken there didn’t…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced a further cash investment of $1 million in the four states facing marriage-related ballot measures in November – Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. The cash infusion brings HRC’s contributions to legislative and electoral marriage issues in the 2011-2012 cycle to $4.8 million. “This is a tipping…
Charming Hollywood actor Seth Peterson talked to San Diego LGBT Weekly about his role opposite Sharon Gless and Jeffrey Donovan on USA’s hit spy series Burn Notice, his multiple award-winning feature film Hate Crime and Sedona the movie, which will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, VOD and digital download Aug. 22. The brilliantly engulfing New…
Many words have been used to describe Michael Lucas through the years: abrasive, iron-fisted, arrogant, a hard ass … but family guy? Believe it or not, the man behind Lucas Entertainment, one of the top five gay adult-entertainment companies in the world, is showing his gentler side these days and it’s all thanks to the…
