SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Freedom to Marry unveiled a television ad campaign in Minnesota as part of its public education efforts designed to spark conversation about the meaning of marriage across the nation. The ad, the latest to launch in Freedom to Marry’s Why Marriage Matters educational campaign, is scheduled to run for several weeks…
2011/2012 has seen much movement in terms of equal rights for the LGBT community. We have a president who openly supports marriage equality, we have had Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed and we have had any number of other small victories in the fight for equality, but … and this is a very big but…
If you don’t know the show La Cage aux Folles, don’t tell anyone. Your gay card may be revoked and you’ll be exiled to Santee. Here’s the 411. The show is endearingly known as La Cage. In 1973, Jean Poiret’s play La Cage aux Folles opened in Paris and ran for 1,800 performances. The play…
Torrence, CA (KTLA) — Activists on both sides of the gay rights issue are putting fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A in the spotlight this week — with day two of demonstrations calling for a same-sex “kiss-in.” Friday’s event, dubbed the “National Same-Sex Kiss Day,” asks couples to go to one of the chicken restaurant’s locations and…
(CNN) — Gay rights activists staged a “kiss day” at Chick-fil-A outlets nationwide Friday amid a controversy over the company president’s stance against same-sex marriages. Organizers used social media to urge same-sex couples to participate in the event and post pictures and videos online. “I like to liken it to a married couple sharing a…
(CNN) — I’ve known my BFF Natalie Palmer since ninth grade. She’s still my best friend 21 years later. We’ve shared some defining moments: her wedding and the birth of her two children; my coming out of the closet as a gay man; losing my mother at 23 years old; our 20-year college reunion. I…
BOSTON – Mayor Thomas Menino has written to Chick-fil-A president, Dan Cathy taking the anti-LGBT fast food chain to task and urging them to back out of their plans to open a location in Boston. Menino criticizes Cathy for opposing same-sex marriage and for saying that the generation that supports it has an “arrogant attitude.”…
(CNN) — Actor Ed Helms is the latest celebrity to put his money where his mouth is. “The Office” star has tweeted that he’s no longer a fan of fast food giant Chick-fil-A. Helms made the choice after the restaurant chain’s president and CEO made it known that the company doesn’t support same-sex marriage in…
“It never occurred to me that I was a lesbian. I wanted to know who I was in the world. After my relationship started, I never questioned it. That explains that!” Meredith Baxter Actress 2011 Grand Marshal “Harvey gave his life for a movement – for our LGBT rights movement – and we must ask…
On a recent Sunday, I was honored to join San Diego Councilmember Todd Gloria to officiate at graduation ceremonies for the first class of the San Diego LGBT Center’s Young Professionals Council Academy. These twenty young people spent half a dozen full Saturdays over three months attending sessions led by LGBT and allied community leaders…
