WASHINGTON – Hard on the heels of Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney for president. NOM said it was making the endorsement to help focus social conservatives on the need to defeat President Obama in November. “We are proud to endorse Mitt…
PROVO, Utah (CNN) – The students featured in a video about being gay at Brigham Young University (BYU) are not in obvious violation of the honor code, according to Carri Jenkins, an assistant to the president of BYU. Jenkins went on to say that for the video alone, the students would not be punished. The…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced its involvement in a variety of activities around the 19th International AIDS Conference (known as AIDS 2012), which will be the first to be held in the U.S. in 22 years. HRC will be hosting panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt open for public viewing in…
In 1800, Thomas Jefferson, for the first and last time in U.S. history, became a vice president running against his president. Things got ugly fast. Jefferson’s camp accused President John Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”…
AFGHANISTAN – The U.S. military is investigating a series of photographs that show a soldier allegedly raising a Gay Pride flag at a base in Afghanistan. The series of three photographs were originally posted on the wall of a Facebook group called Wipeout Homophobia by Nicole Jodice, who wrote the message “Hubbie in Afghanistan raising…
Washington (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Two leading national anti-abortion organizations Thursday endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president. In backing the former Massachusetts governor and all but certain GOP presidential nominee, both National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List highlighted what they called Romney’s strong “pro-life” positions and criticized President…
President Obama will not sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against their employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity according to reports at Metro Weekly. “Earlier today, we were told that the Administration is not ready to move forward with a federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order at this time,”…
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — In his first big trip of the second fund-raising quarter, President Barack Obama hauled in at least $1.75 million at three fund-raisers in Florida on Tuesday. At all three campaign events – and during his one official event at Florida Atlantic University – the…
State Assemblymember Toni Atkins has chosen Nikki Clay, chair of the San Diego Convention Center board of directors and partner in the government relations firm Carpi and Clay, as the Woman of the Year in the 76th Assembly District. Clay was honored in a presentation on the floor of the state Assembly. “Nikki Clay has…
The San Diego Log Cabin Republicans have responded to Wednesday’s announcement that Nathan Fletcher has abandoned the GOP in favor of the Independent party. Victoria Kerley, president of the San Diego Log Cabin Republicans, explains the group’s decision to rescind their endorsement of the San Diego mayoral hopeful. Nathan Fletcher’s decision to leave the Republican…
