WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus has commended the House of Representatives for passing H.Res.351, a bipartisan resolution condemning the detention, torture, and murders of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya. H.Res.351 was introduced by LGBT Caucus founding member and former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) on May 23rd…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced efforts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in 2019. In June 1969, LGBT community members held spontaneous demonstrations at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, considered by many as the catalyst for the modern LGBT rights movement. As part of the…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Warwick Hillcrest, new luxury apartment units located at 606 Washington Street and owned and operated by San Diego real estate investment group SENTRE, dba Warwick Hillcrest, LLC., will begin first move-ins on Saturday, July 1, 2017 following six months of renovations. This initial round of move-ins will invite tenants to live atop The Warwick’s fourth floor Penthouse Level, and marks The Warwick’s debut as one of Hillcrest’s newest, most upscale multi-family properties. Under construction since…
The bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its report for the revised Senate Bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and estimates that 22 million more Americans will be without health insurance by 2026: CBO and JCT estimate that in 2018, 15 million more people would be uninsured under the legislation than under current…
Today is National HIV Testing Day, and everyone is encouraged to “know your status.” The White House put out a statement recognizing this moment, stressing the importance of routine testing. The statement read in part: Today, there are 1.1 million people living with HIV in America, 15 percent of whom do not yet know their…
GENEVA —The Government of Germany has announced that it will double its funding to UNAIDS in 2017-2018, to €5 million per year. Germany made the announcement at the 40th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, being held in Geneva, Switzerland. “With Germany, we have a common goal of ending AIDS and a shared commitment…
During my eight year assignment in Silicon Valley, I had the opportunity to meet former San Francisco City Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver. Silver served in San Francisco City Hall from 1978 to 1989 and served with Supervisor Harvey Milk. Silver was a fearless political ally of Milk and she has a role in the Milk…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA) reintroduced their resolution to designate June 26, as “LGBT Equality Day,” honoring the anniversary of three significant victories won at the U.S. Supreme Court for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans. “America should celebrate the progress we have made to pass…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, on the two-year anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has called on Congress and the Trump administration to finally enact the Equality Act and establish full federal equality for millions of LGBTQ people. Today also marks the anniversaries of three other important…
CHICAGO — Yesterday, several Jewish participants in the Dyke March Chicago were told to leave the event because their flags had the Jewish Star of David. Laurel Grauer, one of the participants ejected from the parade, told the Windy City Times that she not only was told to leave but was publicly harassed by other…
