(CNN) – Like many parents, Carrie Goldman was thrilled to learn that Britain’s biggest department store recently reopened its toy department with a fresh look: dolls and trucks side by side. Instead of organizing toys into color-coded aisles of pink for girls and blue for boys, Harrods’ new 26,000 square-foot “Toy Kingdom” is broken into…
SAN DIEGO (CNN) – The newly-appointed archbishop of San Francisco apologized Monday after being arrested Saturday in San Diego on an allegation of driving under the influence. Salvatore Cordileone, who is to be installed in St. Mary’s Cathedral in October, is well-known as a conservative on social issues and was a vigorous supporter of Proposition…
MANCHESTER, England – Thousands lined the streets of Manchester’s city center to watch one of the U.K.’s largest LGBT Pride parades, this past weekend. Locals and visitors alike defied the forecasted rain to turn out in their thousands to support this year’s Manchester Pride parade, featuring more than 100 participating companies, individuals, sponsors, and local…
The parents of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University student who committed suicide in 2010 after his roommate recorded an encounter between Tyler and another man and published it on the Internet, have left their church in Ridgewood, N.J. due to its anti-gay views. According to The New York Times, Joe and Jane Clementi decided to…
Sunday, September 2, from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., R&B singer and songwriter Michel’le will perform live at Numbers Nightclub as part of a special Labor Day weekend edition of EyeCandy presented by Global Male Productions to benefit Urban Pride – San Diego. Michel’le is sure to entertain what is expected to be a packed house…
The City Council of Austin, Texas this week bestowed the honorary renaming of 4th Street to commemorate the life-long service of civil rights icon Bettie Naylor. Naylor was a leading LGBT and women’s activist, as well as a founding board member of the Human Rights Campaign. To honor Naylor’s 30 years of service to the…
Parishioners across Scotland got an earful of anti-LGBT equality during Roman Catholic services Sunday in the form of a cardinal’s letter mourning the legalization of same-sex marriage and beseeching the faithful to join the church to roll back the new rights, which the government in Edinburgh has granted to gays, lesbians and bisexual citizens. Scotland‘s…
San Diego Democrats for Equality will send 10 delegates to this year’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Sept. 3 – 6. This is the highest number of delegates the club has ever sent to the convention since its founding in 1975. “A tremendous amount of progress has been made in the last four years…
There has been some talk that Congressman Bob Filner was involved in “gay-baiting” when he questioned the role of San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio’s partner in promoting the water-gun fight in Balboa Park. What is gay-baiting? It is the practice, most often used by Republican candidates, to imply that their opponent might be a member…
San Francisco 49ers Tape \’It Gets Better\’ anti-LGBT bullying video The San Francisco 49ers have become the first NFL team to join the “It Gets Better” public service announcement campaign, which seeks to assure LGBT youth that, despite whatever circumstances they now face, being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender doesn’t mean being doomed to live…
