WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, the White House will honor ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things across the country to ensure safety, dignity, and equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, as demonstrated by their inspiring video entries in the LGBT Pride Month Video Challenge. “Today’s Champions of Change have worked…
The LGBT community has made tremendous progress toward equality during the last decade. With much more to accomplish, one of the most tragic issues lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities locally, nationally and globally face, is youth homelessness. Our community’s youth continue to face severe and heart-wrenching challenges and difficulties. “Think of it this way,”…
HRC‘s groundbreaking new survey of LGBT youth in the U.S. is a call to immediate action. Thousands of youth who don’t feel accepted by their parents or classmates reported being verbally harassed – twice as many as their straight peers. What’s more, only 37% of LGBT youth say they’re happy, compared to 67% among their…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a groundbreaking study of LGBT-identified young people and a corollary study of straight teens that shows tremendous disparities between the two groups. With more than 10,000 respondents ages 13-17, Growing Up LGBT in America is the largest known survey of LGBT teens. Among the report’s key…
June is LGBT Pride month, as proclaimed by both city and national officials; and San Diego LGBT Weekly wants to know who is your LGBT Pride star. Send us the name of someone you know who lives, owns a business, or works (volunteer work counts) in San Diego who you think deserves to be recognized…
Here’s the gist of a parable told by the Transgender Law Center Executive Director Masen Davis, May 22 to a group of trans people, their significant others, friends, families and allies (SOFFAs) set to participate at 2012 Transgender Lobby Day in Sacramento, Calif.: “There was a man standing by a river. While looking across the…
Amherst investigators announced Tuesday the death of Jamey Rodemeyer will not be ruled a crime in wake of the teen’s controversial death attributed to gay bullying. Rodemeyer’s cell phone and computer were analyzed at a forensic lab to determine whether he had received harassing or bullying comments prior to the teen’s suicide on Sept. 18….
Lady Gaga will be presented with this year’s Trevor Hero Award at the annual Trevor Live event on Dec. 4, reports MTV News. The gala is hosted and sponsored by the Trevor Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention for LGBT youth. The Trevor Project will also recognize Google Inc. with the Trevor 2020…
The GSDBA Charitable Foundation has awarded scholarships to 14 LGBT students for the 2011 academic year. This year’s $12,750 worth of scholarships brings the grand total of scholarship awards to $109,000 during the last 10 years. “It is a testament to the San Diego community that the foundation has been able to raise so much…
SAN ANTONIO – A University of Texas San Antonio student, badly assaulted by two men over the Halloween weekend, has claimed that it was solely because she was gay and wants police to treat the assault as a hate crime. KENS 5, San Antonio reported that Kristen Cooper was waiting for a ride home after…
