WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney is touting the endorsement of anti-gay fundamentalist Kris Kobach. Kobach, who now serves as the Kansas secretary of state, is best known for using fear tactics to spread his anti-immigration agenda. He also is virulently anti-gay, and in 2004 made the claim that HRC and other LGBT equality organizations supported “homosexual…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced a new anti-bullying PSA featuring WWE (formerly World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) “superstars and divas,” Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly, Alicia Fox, Sheamus and Kofi Kingston. The Amplify Your Voice PSA, produced with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), debuted Dec. 13 on USA Network as part…
In this second part of San Diego LGBT Weekly’s look at the recent inaugural report from the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, questions have inevitably been raised about what needs to be done on a global basis to protect LGBT people worldwide. Among its conclusions, the report…
Fletcher’s support for LGBT rights? Dear Editor, I have read the many words Nicole [Murray Ramirez] has penned in the past months in praise of Mr. (Assemblyman Nathan) Fletcher, and I am at a loss to understand Nicole’s thought processes. I concur strongly (with) Mr. Corbin’s editorial statement in the LGBT Weekly of Jan. 12,…
Did you know that Jesus said that we were chosen and appointed to love one another? … and that this love is like fruit that will last and not spoil. Sometimes in life we get all caught up in rules and regulations – and we follow with our heads instead of with our heart. There’s…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) today announced the search process for a new Executive Director to be named this spring. On the heels of the announcement of the planned departure of Army Veteran Aubrey Sarvis, SLDN‘s Executive Director since 2007, the SLDN Board of Directors has retained the executive search firm, McCormack…
DynaCorp, a federal contractor specializing in aviation, management and security, has earned a negative spotlight in recent weeks for their discriminatory employee policies. The allegations stem from a claim which produced a $155,000 settlement on Jan. 6 after a complaint was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The case is centered around James Friso,…
San Diego LGBT activist and blogger Mike Tidmus lost the battle to cancer Sunday, passing away at the age of 60. Tidmus’ sister, announced via Mike’s Facebook page: “My name is Lindsay Tidmus, Mike’s brother. It is with a heavy heart that I inform his Facebook friends of Mike’s passing. He left us this morning…
The state of Indiana has set a new bar of awareness by introducing LGBT-themed license plates which will debut in February. The new plates feature six hands in each of the rainbow colors to include one each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple – the same logo used for the Indiana Youth Group,…
IRONICALLY, JUST A FEW MONTHS after the infamous Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was abolished in the U.S., promising a hoped-for new era of tolerance in the military, the U.N. has published a damning first-ever official report on the state of global human rights for LGBT people and the widespread abuses that continue to exist….
