Madonna has released a music video, “Living for Love” as she moves closer toward the official release of her 13th studio album, Rebel Heart, March 10. The video shows Madonna playing matador to a host of men dressed as bulls in a red arena in a display that critics are hailing as her best work in…
In a move to promote a culture that embraced diversity, the Australian bank chain ANZ has unveiled four “GAYTMs” in Auckland and Wellington to celebrate diversity and inclusion for New Zealand’s LGBT community. The concept originally appeared last year when ANZ in Australia introduced GAYTMs to celebrate Sydney Mardi Gras. Dripping with rhinestones, the customized…
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) has made revisions to the state’s certificate of marriage, which allows loving, committed LGBT couples to marry in the state. According to published news reports, the forms will also enable the state to track and record how many LGBT couples marry. Despite statements and arguments by the Attorney…
SAN DIEGO – Frenchie Davis will join the San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC) for an exclusive performance at the Balboa Theatre Sunday, May 17 at 7 p.m. The concert, Broadway, Our Way is a fundraising event benefiting the Lesbian Health Initiative of the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation. Broadway, Our Way will present songs from…
SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe’s West Coast Premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man by award-winning novelist Nathan Englander, directed by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, will now play an extra week of performances—through March 22—due to ticket demand for the originally announced run. Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden (“Barney Miller,” The Rothschilds) leads…
WASHINGTON—The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced its support for an ethics complaint with the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama seeking the removal of Chief Justice Roy Moore from the state supreme court for violating the obligations of his office. “Chief Justice Roy Moore is lawlessly disregarding the binding ruling of a federal judge, and…
WASHINGTON—Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) issued a report and resource guide compiling more than two dozen new, sweeping and seemingly-coordinated pieces of legislation in more than a dozen states across the country—all geared toward undermining LGBT equality in a shroud of religious language. The bills—many modeled on a failed attempt in Arizona last year…
Following 14 hours of deliberations over three days, a jury convicted a Pacific Beach man Monday of six extortion charges and 21 identity thefts from his operation of a “revenge porn” Web site that displayed nude photos of mostly women which could be taken down with fees ranging from $299 to $350. The jury of…
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 5, 2015—Recognizing the business imperative to embrace diversity, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) launched the first initiative of its kind focused on LGBT business owners. LGBT Business Builder will bring together expertise and resources from staff at SBA district and regional…
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.– ViiV Healthcare has announced the launch of a four-year, $10 million initial investment to fuel a concerted community response to the HIV epidemic among Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Baltimore, Maryland and Jackson, Mississippi, two U.S. cities hard hit by HIV/AIDS. The goal for this new initiative named…
