Rolla Selbak debuts new online web series ‘Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking’ (VIDEO)

LOS ANGELES,  – Award-winning out filmmaker Rolla Selbak is releasing a new online “interview” series called “Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking”, in which she shares her personal Hollywood vlogs as she visits some of the most prominent lesbian filmmakers making it happen today. Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking offers an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes, showing the magic, behind…

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Drag queens, drunks and drinkypoos: Jeza Belle’s ‘The Harlot’s Guide to Classy Cocktails’ to be released Oct. 7

Internationally known New York City drag queen, actress, comedienne, columnist, and cocktail connoisseur Jeza Belle will make her publishing debut  Oct. 7, with The Harlot’s Guide To Classy Cocktails. Part drink recipe book, part he-larious drunken memoir, the coffee table book contains Jeza’s own classy (The Dietrich) and, uh, not-so-classy (MAI Cock is TAI-ed Back) cocktail recipes along with…

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Assembly passes Sen. Leno’s smartphone theft legislation

SACRAMENTO – The California Assembly today passed legislation that requires all smartphones sold in California to come pre-equipped with theft-deterring technological solutions to render the device useless if stolen. Senate Bill 962, authored by Senator Mark Leno and sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, addresses the growing epidemic of smartphone theft. It requires…

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New survey: Moving beyond marriage, what young people of color think about the LGBT agenda

blaA recent survey finds that many young people of color disagree with same-sex marriage being the top priority of the LGBT agenda, pointing instead to other issues like HIV/AIDS and bullying. The new survey, “Moving Beyond Marriage: What Young People of Color Think about the LGBT Agenda” from the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago,…

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Rand Paul on marriage equality:’I don’t think we can completely flip’

WASHINGTON – In less than 48 hours, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has staked out a perilous position on the issue of marriage equality. After telling a group of Republicans yesterday that he is “in favor of the concept” of a Federal Marriage Amendment, in a new interview released today, the presumptive 2016 GOP presidential candidate seemed…

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PEPFAR and CIFF launch Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) initiative

Today, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), launched Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT). ACT is an ambitious $200 million initiative to double the total number of children receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) across ten priority African countries over the next two years. This investment…

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Target signs on to brief supporting marriage equality cases

Target has announced it signed onto an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit supporting two cases challenging state bans on same-sex marriage.  The cases, Baskin v. Bogan of Indiana, and Wolf v. Walker of Wisconsin, are on appeal to the Seventh Circuit after federal district courts in those states struck down…

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Colbie Caillat joins HRC’s Americans for Marriage Equality (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), released a video ad featuring Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Colbie Caillat for the group’s Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the video, Caillat states, “Whether you are LGBT or straight, you should be able to marry the person you love… We have to raise our voice together and…

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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear arguments in six marriage cases from four states

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will hear arguments on six court cases challenging four states’ bans on marriage equality.  Over the last year, federal judges in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee have ruled that these states’ laws and constitutional amendments that exclude same-sex couples from marriage violate the U.S. Constitution.  In…

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