Advocacy groups have applauded the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Administrator Gayle Smith for ensuring that LGBT people will have equal access to services and aid delivered by contractors and sub-contractors of USAID that work internationally. This policy, announced Wednesday in a speech by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice at American…
NEW YORK, NY – GLAAD has released the tenth edition of its Media Reference Guide, the industry standard style guide for reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and the issues that affect their lives. The newly released tenth edition of the guide includes an updated terminology section and, for the first…
NEWARK, N.J., — Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), a publicly traded diversified energy company, and The Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University have partnered to help provide incentives to New Jersey public high schools interested in offering the LGBTQ Youth Empowerment Initiative to their LGBTQ student population and allies. Through a $10,000 grant from the…
thursday. oct. 27 Kurt Metzger Metzger recently starred on Horace & Pete alongside Alan Alda, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Jessica Lange and Louis C.K. He won his first Emmy (2nd nomination) for his writing on Inside Amy Schumer. He was a consulting producer on the Sundance Channel series The Approval Matrix, the IFC series Benders,…
The La Mesa Library Branch (8074 Allison Ave.) of the San Diego County Library will host the Human Library Nov. 5 from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Visitors to the La Mesa Library will be able to ‘check out’ a living book. The event will host several volunteers who visitors can interact with, ask questions to, and engage…
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a new digital ad featuring Christine Leinonen, the mother of Christopher “Drew” Leinonen — a young man shot and killed along with his boyfriend, Juan Guerrero, and 47 others at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. In the ad, Christine speaks directly to American voters, saying, “We have to continue moving forward…
U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy announced Tuesday she has appointed a veteran prosecutor to oversee the handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses for the upcoming Nov. 8 election. Duffy named Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio to serve as District Elections Officer for the Southern District of California, a position Tenorio has…
San Diego LGBT Weekly won 10 awards at the San Diego Press Club 43rd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards Tuesday night. With the new awards, LGBT Weekly has now won a total of 57 awards for journalism excellence since it was founded in 2010. The 43rd Annual Awards dinner, held at the Jacobs Center at…
This Tuesday, Lady Gaga joins James Corden for a brand new Carpool Karaoke. Corden dons an outfit Corden that looks similar to the white Francesco Scognamiglio dress she wore at the 2010 Brit Awards and relives Gaga’s Super Bowl moment! Watch the promo clip above. The Late Late Show with James Corden airs weeknights 12:37am/11:37pm…
North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2 has cost the city of Charlotte 730 new jobs and an approximately $8.2 million in initial investment by CoStar Group Inc. after the company selected Richmond for a new research operations headquarters. The Charlotte Business Journal quoted David Dorsch, senior vice president at Cushman & Wakefield’s Charlotte office as saying,…
