SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As of Monday, Jan. 23, 322,014 people have newly enrolled in a health plan through Covered California since Nov. 1, keeping pace with enrollment last year despite a measure of concern on the part of Californians about the future of the ACA. “As we continue working to enroll consumers in Covered California,…
The Trump administration has removed from the State Department Web site former Secretary of State John Kerry’s apology for the infamous “Lavender Scare” witch hunt in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as other content regarding LGBTQ pride month observances and the State Department’s Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons. Kerry apologized…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a new report previewing battles against anti-LGBTQ state legislation expected in the year ahead. With at least 40 anti-LGBTQ bills in 16 states introduced so far, HRC anticipates that, as in 2016, anti-equality activists will push for legislation giving a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people under the guise…
Organizers have estimated nearly 80,000 people showed up Saturday to the San Diego Women’s March and walked together in peace in solidarity with the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. The march started at Civic Center Plaza next to San Diego City Hall, and ended on the steps of the San Diego County Administration Center about…
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The City of West Hollywood is taking bold action to reaffirm its commitment to its core values and to work to defend the rights of community members as Donald J. Trump takes office in Washington, DC. At its regular meeting on Monday, December 5, 2016, the City Council of the City of…
Donald J. Trump’s inaugural speech may have broken with tradition and to some cast a grim picture of the reality of our country. The Huffington Post reports that Author Randa Jarrar, capturing the grim mood, tweeted a poem she’d written using the Trumpian terms ― supplemented with some common words such as “a” and “my”…
WASHINGTON — Wednesday, at a ceremony in the Pentagon, Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning awarded The American Military Partner Association (AMPA) President Ashley Broadway-Mack the Secretary of the Army Public Service Award. The award was presented in Secretary Fanning’s office just prior to his official farewell ceremony. “Ashley Broadway-Mack is a phenomenal advocate for our nation’s…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Within minutes of Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday, his administration has removed all mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from the White House Web site, and selected LGBT-related documents have disappeared from the Department of Labor website. The Office of National AIDS Policy appears to have been closed, and its web…
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union has taken legal action seeking documents on conflicts of interest and violations of the Constitution and federal law posed by President Trump’s and his family’s business interests. The organization also released a Seven-Point Plan laying out how it intends to challenge other Trump policies and protect the Constitution. The efforts are made possible by the organization’s new Constitution Defense Fund,…
In 1972 LGBT San Diegans started meeting to organize a local chapter of the International Imperial Courts of North America. The Imperial Court System has been described as the “gay Shriners or Elks,” and was founded in 1965 by World War II Veteran Jose Julio Sarria. A gay icon, who in 1961 became the first…
