SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – In advance of its annual Workplace Summit, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates has announced the final candidates for the 2017 Outie Awards. The annual Outie Awards honor individuals and organizations doing outstanding work to advance equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in workplaces globally. This year, winners will be…
SAN DIEGO, California — San Diego native Ebony Burnett Mullins has been named the producer of the 2017 Nicky Awards. She is a past co-chair of San Diego LGBT Pride and is a professional event planner and is involved in many non-profit charity causes. This year’s Nicky Awards is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 3. The 2017…
JD Disalvatore, a prolific LGBT film and television producer and director and gay rights activist, died Thursday, Aug. 24 after a long battle with cancer. She was 51. A proud marching band trumpet player in Miami Palmetto Senior High, JD went on to study communications at Boston University, absorbing as much as she could from her creative…
NMAC’s bi-annual HIV/STD Action Day Sept. 6 will bring together nearly 300 advocates and activists from around the nation to ask Congress to stop proposed deep federal budget cuts for HIV services. Action Day will take place the day before the opening of the U.S. Conference on AIDS in DC. “Scheduled a day before the 2017…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the National President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, Pedro J. Torres-Díaz, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted in late July of criminal contempt for failing to comply with a United States District Court Judge’s order to stop…
Sunday night, Pink gave an inspiring speech about her daughter and self-acceptance while accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award during the MTV Video Music Awards. The star recalled a conversation she had with her daughter Willow, age 6, after her daughter said to her, “Mama … I’m the ugliest girl I know. I look…
OAKLAND, Calif. — National Nurses United is calling on the Trump Administration to withdraw its threat to terminate the highly successful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has enabled young people who came to the U.S. undocumented as children to remain in the U.S. The young people who have been protected from being…
Greece’s only LGBTQI helpline has re-opened after being closed for nearly a year. Gay Star News reports that 11528-By Your Side is a critical and unique helpline for Greece’s LGBTQI people with people from all over the country accessing its service. ‘Transphobia and homophobia of Greek society isn’t to be underestimated,’ 11528-By Your Side’s project…
LGBT advocacy groups have spoken out against the White House’s directive to carry out President Trump’s transgender military ban. The unprecedented policy indefinitely extends the ban on qualified transgender recruits from entering the military and rips away at least some medically necessary, transition-related health care from currently serving transgender troops. “This horrifying, vicious assault on thousands of…
NEW YORK N.Y. — Planned Parenthood has announced a multi-phase pilot program to build and expand its comprehensive HIV prevention and education efforts. Gilead Sciences, Inc, a research-based biopharmaceutical company, awarded the $900,000 grant to support and expand efforts of HIV prevention and education, including the integration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, at Planned Parenthood affiliate…
