A crowd of 60-70 supporters and would-be supporters came out to hear San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who is running for mayor, speak at a fundraising happy hour at Eden Tuesday evening, as well as a performance by comedian and DeMaio backer Shawn Pelofsky. DeMaio’s campaign billed the event as a social hour for…
Quashing the doubts of many in San Diego’s LGBT community that City Councilman Carl DeMaio would take a pass on the March 28 LGBT Mayoral Candidate Forum at The Center, the candidate for mayor has confirmed that he will attend, according to officials at the debate’s venue. However, a source involved in organizing the event…
Charles McKain, 65, from San Diego, died Saturday, March 17 after battling an undisclosed illness. McKain retired as a staff attorney for the Fourth District of the California Court of Appeal. He graduated from Hoover High School in 1963, and went on to earn a history degree from Stanford University and Juris Doctorate from the…
WASHINGTON – More than 15,000 people are calling on Mitt Romney to fire his National Finance Chair, Frank VanderSloot, for his extensive activities aimed at demonizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The petition, launched by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) last week, calls on people to demand Romney fire VanderSloot and return the money…
NEW YORK – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the launch of its Commentator Accountability Project. The project aims to educate the media about the extreme rhetoric of over three dozen activists who are often given a platform to speak in opposition to LGBT people and the issues that affect their…
BRUSSELS – The European Parliament has adopted a resolution protecting same-sex couples’ inheritance rights throughout the European Union (EU). The resolution says individual countries that do not recognize legal partnerships between gay couples should not be able to deny a gay widow or widower the rights they have to their late spouse’s estate under the…
If sidesplitting comedy is what you are after, you are in luck, times three, because this Saturday night at 8 p.m. for your delectation The Birch North Park Theatre presents the Queer Queens of Qomedy. The Queer Queens are comprised of three of the country’s reigning LGBT comics, Gina Yashere, Fortune Feimster and Poppy Champlin….
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced that The Weinstein Company co-chairman and anti-bullying advocate Harvey Weinstein will present a Special Recognition Award to high school student Katy Butler at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 24, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Seventeen-year-old Katy Butler launched a…
Repealing the unconstitutional Proposition 8 may not be on the California ballot in 2012, but history may still see this as the “Year of Marriage Equality”. So far, we know that six states: Washington, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina and New Hampshire will all be making important decisions about same-sex marriage this year. Throw in…
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President, and Attorney General Eric Holder joined forces in combating teen bullying as they addressed an audience of over 400 teachers, students, and community officials at the White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools & Community in Arlington, Texas Tuesday. “In March of 2010, we held the first-ever White…
