LOS ANGELES – Due to popular demand, The Hollywood Museum has announced that Reel to Real: Portrayals and Perceptions of Gays in Hollywood – an entertaining and informative retrospective of LGBT images in film and television throughout the decades – has been extended to Sept. 28. Launched in June in honor of LGBT Heritage Month, this exclusive exhibition…
SACRAMENTO — California’s two university systems could receive an additional $100 million this year under a proposal by Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins and Assembly Democrats. California State University and University of California systems would receive $50 million each, the same amount they would have received under a budgeting formula that was contingent on the…
Oakland- the East Bay’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) Pride festival is celebrating its fifth year Sunday, Aug. 31, and expanding the festival with a Pride parade down Broadway. Spring boarding off of 2013’s success where more than 30,000 people attended, Oakland Pride is happy to announce the largest celebration yet. The newly…
Today, the Scott Peters for Congress campaign released a video showing Carl DeMaio addressing a local Tea Party audience. DeMaio tells the crowd that the Tea Party is “the conscience of the accountable-government movement.” He openly mocks the mere notion of bipartisan cooperation. He admits he’ll owe the Tea Party “everything.” “The video makes this…
Today, Broward Circuit Judge Dale Cohen struck down Florida’s marriage ban, affirming that the denial of marriage equality to same-sex couples in Florida is unconstitutional. The judge’s ruling applies to recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages, as well as overturning Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage – Broward County only. This marks the third time in the…
CHICAGO — The Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM/LGBT Catholics) believes that LGBT political leadership should be more involved in immigration reform. Attempts to work with the Catholic Bishops where possible should be attempted, as long as they do not single out LGBT families for condemnation when it concerns immigration policy. The RSM is calling on The Human…
Around 300 activists led a colorful parade through Hanoi on Sunday in the nation’s largest ever Gay Pride event, as communist Vietnam shows signs of increasing tolerance of sexual difference, reports Agence France Presse. The city streets were awash with rainbow flags, as a mainly young crowd cycled and danced through the capital urging an…
A rainbow flag has been ripped off the building of the Metropolitan Community Church in San Diego and a theft report was filed with San Diego Police. The 4×6 flag was displayed for most of July until it disappeared overnight July 24 from the front of the church at 2633 Denver Street near Mission Bay….
http://youtu.be/-jDpJm1TgFs A court in Uganda struck down the country’s anti-homosexuality law, Friday amid cheers from a packed courtroom in the capital Kampala. According to a report in the New York Times, a panel of five judges announced that the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which punishes some homosexual behavior with life in prison, was invalid because it had…
INDIA — Indian celebrities are taking to social media to support the rights of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community by pushing for equality in a country that criminalizes same-sex relations, reports GayAsiaNews.com. This is in response to Humsafar Trust, an organization that promotes LGBTI rights, that recently started a petition against Section 377 on…
