SAN DIEGO – The San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative (HFC), a grant program of San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF), held a luncheon Friday, Jan. 29 in the Deborah Hoffman Community Room at The San Diego Foundation in Liberty Station where representatives from 11 local nonprofits and the community at large assembled to celebrate the…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in partnership with the Equality Federation, today released its second annual national report assessing the status of state legislation affecting LGBT equality across America, including in California. The State Equality Index (SEI) reveals that, even with historic progress on marriage equality, there are extraordinary state-to-state disparities in LGBT…
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.—The widespread discrimination and mistreatment transgender individuals face in the healthcare system could be alleviated with specialized provider training to increase knowledge about transgender health and needs, and to promote positive attitudes. The evaluation of a pilot training program implemented in an urban clinic shows the potential to change attitudes and improve competency,…
LONG BEACH, Calif.—APLA Health & Wellness have announced the opening of their Long Beach Health Center, located at 1043 Elm Ave. on the St. Mary Medical Center campus. The new health center currently provides services for free or on a low-cost, sliding-fee scale, including: Primary medical care Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) counseling and management HIV testing…
Today, The Huffington Post announced the relaunch of HuffPost Gay Voices as HuffPost Queer Voices. Gay Voices originally launched in 2011, but as Noah Michelson, editorial director of Queer Voices states, “A lot has changed since then from marriage equality sweeping the nation and parts of the world to Laverne Cox gracing the cover of Time…
Today the House Oversight Committee released a series of astonishing internal documents revealing the greed behind former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli’s decision to increase by 5,000 percent the cost of the life-saving drug Daraprim. Daraprim is a crucial treatment for many pregnant women and people living with HIV. Last fall, then-Turing CEO Martin Shkreli…
The non-discrimination bill, SB 344, will not advance in the Indiana Senate. Although it was previously scheduled for a second hearing today, according to the bill’s author, the legislation will not be considered and will therefore fail to meet the required deadline this year. The legislation was an attempt to address the damning evidence that…
Adele has made it clear that she does not want to be associated with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. According to a CNN Wire report Adele’s “Skyfall” is part of the Republican’s pre-rally playlist and Trump has also taken the stage recently to the Grammy Award-winning artist’s hit “Rolling in the Deep.” But she never…
Whichever GOP candidate emerges as the winner of tonight’s Iowa caucuses, they spell danger for LGBT equality. In the final days of the race for Iowa, each of the GOP frontrunners — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have launched fresh attacks on LGBT people in a last-ditch effort to score conservative cred…
San Diego Musical Theatre takes us ‘behind the curtain’ for some rehearsal room interviews with the cast of Ragtime. Watch as the cast speak passionately about the production and the relevance this story has for today. Ragtime is a sweeping musical portrait of early 20th century America telling the story of three families in the…
