LOS ANGELES — Dario, the openly gay pop star featured by San Diego LGBT Weekly in March will debut his highly anticipated sixth album, Evolution, this Tuesday followed by a star studded CD release celebration in Hollywood May 4. The event will include opening performances, one of which will be from the season three X…
THAILAND — A Thai Buddhist monk who is gay and a former cross-dresser has gone on public television to say there is nothing wrong with gay people becoming Buddhist monks, causing much controversy in Thailand where Buddhism is the primary religion and has special status, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “I am who I am, and I’m not…
Today, TIME Magazine unveiled its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Among the notable inclusions was Jason Collins for his brave step decision to come out while still active in a major U.S. sports league. Chelsea Clinton, a friend of Collins’ since their days at Stanford University, wrote the article about…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, is calling on the Boy Scouts of America to end its longstanding discriminatory ban on gay adults in Scouting and reinstate Rainier Beach United Methodist Church’s charter. In March, BSA leaders fired Geoff McGrath, 49, leader of Troop 98 in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood after he came out as…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling for the reinstatement of the Latta, SC police chief, who is openly gay. According to news reports, Chief Crystal Moore was fired by Mayor Earl Bullard after he reprimanded her seven times in one day. Chief Moore says the reprimands received on Tuesday were the first she has…
Charles J. Cooper, the chief legal defender of Proposition 8 for the duration of the Perry case, has an openly gay stepdaughter named Ashley and that Cooper and his wife, Debbie, are helping to plan Ashley’s upcoming wedding to her partner of several years. The news was disclosed in the upcoming book, Forcing the Spring: Inside the…
After announcing he’s gay back in April, Jason Collins, formerly of the Washington Wizards, signed a short-term, 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets making him the first openly gay player in any of the four major national sports league franchises in North America. The Nets Tweeted Sunday, “Official: The #Nets have signed @jasoncollins34 to a…
For Michael Sam fans worried about the effects of him being openly gay in a major league sport, a recent survey by ESPN, and published by Sports Illustrated, should prove heartening. Of the 55 players surveyed, almost an entire team’s roster, an overwhelming majority (86 percent) said they would have no problem with a gay…
The openly gay organizer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bayard Rustin may be the next openly gay American to have a United States postage stamp issued in his honor. The official launch of the Bayard Rustin USA/National Stamp Campaign will be announced at the 2014…
In 1961, gay men and lesbians could be arrested for dancing together in bars, or for kissing in public. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness. There were no openly LGBT elected officials, no LGBT characters on television and no laws to protect the lives of LGBT people from harassment, discrimination and even murder. The dark…
