Last September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill protecting LGBT youth from the psychological abuse of reparative therapy (sometimes referred to as conversion therapy). SB 1172, due to a temporary injunction by the federal courts, isn’t currently being enforced. The Liberty Counsel argued for three plaintiffs who practiced reparative therapy that implementation of the law…
I’m curious, how many of you made a New Year’s resolution this year? How many of you have broken them already? There is a long tradition of making New Year’s resolutions. It’s an opportunity to reflect on our current actions and set goals to achieve, or make resolutions to change. Typically, resolutions have to do…
SAN DIEGO — Lambda Archives of San Diego has announced the induction of three new members to their board of directors. Members Conor Foley, Mary Marchan, and Thomas Negron Jr. were recently elected to the board at Lambda Archives’ annual meeting Dec. 1, 2012. Conor Foley studies LGBT Studies and English at SDSU and plans…
Barbara Portantino, mother of the late Gay & Lesbian Times publisher Michael G. Portantino and retired California State Assemblymember Hon. Anthony Portantino, passed away on Fri., Jan. 25, 2013. She was 81 years old. She was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised her four children – Philip, MaryAnn, Michael and Anthony – in…
Hawaii resident Jim Nabors, known for his starring role in the 1960s television sitcom Gomer Pyle, USMC, has married his longtime male partner, Hawaii News Now reports Nabors, 82, told Hawaii News Now that he married his companion of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, who’s 64, in Seattle Jan. 15. Nabors, speaking to Hawaii News Now…
The White House released today a fact sheet outlining the key principles President Obama believes should be included in commonsense immigration reform. From the fact sheet: FACT SHEET: Fixing our Broken Immigration System so Everyone Plays by the Rules America’s immigration system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers and there…
Del Sol High School, Las Vegas, Nevada Jan . 29 11:40 A.M. PST Remarks by the president on comprehensive immigration reform: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! (Applause.) Thank you! Thank you so much. (Applause.) It is good to be back in Las Vegas! (Applause.) And it is good to be among so many good friends. Let me…
WASHINGTON – Army Veteran and OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson today praised Senate Armed Services Committee members Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) for calling on Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to end his two-year silence on extending recognition, support, and benefits to LGBT servicemembers and their families as the law currently allows….
ONTARIO, Canada – Last Saturday at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention Kathleen Wynne beat Sandra Pupatello to be elected to lead the party and become Ontario’s first female premier — and Canada’s first out LGBT premier. BuzzFeed reported that Wynne, 59, and married to Jane Rounthwaite, said she believed her sexual orientation would not be…
