The question of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s health due to her bout with pneumonia has put the concept of health care privacy to the test. HIPAA, the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was passed in part to ensure that your personal health information is protected. So your employer cannot ask information about your health. For…
Can it be that time again? Yes, it can. Pride is here. I mean our outward expression and celebration of LGBTism. We seniors have clear and unhappy memories of our years of secrets, embarrassment, shame and fear for our jobs, safety and even lives for being ourselves. The situation has changed for many of us,…
I cannot speak for the entire senior LGBT community, but many of the males therein on occasion enjoy a peek at a naughty Web site or two. Once viewed, however, it becomes impossible to escape endless enticements depicting an appalling array of sexual toys, equipment, scandalous outfits, DVDs and “personal services.” This unending invasion of…
With marriage equality at some point becoming the law of the land, and although conservative Christians and other social conservatives are aware that this is the case, they still rail against it even though the vigor is lost. Time to change what social conservatives focus on in their culture wars. And, it’s trans people that…
Karen England, the executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) – a partner in the Privacy for All Students Coalition (PFAS) – spoke March 10 to a Salt and Light Ministry meeting at Calvary Chapel Golden Springs in Diamond Bar about the School Success and Opportunity Act, or AB1266. AB1266 is the bill that…
Of the 8,879 homeless people in San Diego, 4,574 live ‘unsheltered’ on our streets. Approximately 10 percent of the homeless population is ‘youth’, and of that population, the youth who identify as LGBT may be as high as 40 percent. There’s been no comprehensive survey of homeless LGBT youth in San Diego since 2004, but…
When I was at grad school one of my professors gave me an old book that described homosexual life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book was an example of ethnographic research whereby the author/researcher immersed herself into the world of gay people (mostly men) to understand the subculture from within. The hardcover…
Vive la difference! We live in a society where we have choices, and can make decisions based on our lifestyles, needs and capabilities. Single family homes and condominiums are two of the choices we can make when electing to purchase a home and one of them is assuredly the better choice for you. The two…
Glee star Jane Lynch and her wife, Dr. Lara Embry, are getting a divorce. Lynch told People magazine, “Lara and I have decided to end our marriage. This has been a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another. We ask for privacy as we deal with this family matter.” Lynch and…
(CNN) — Your Facebook “likes” might be revealing more than you know about your private life. It is possible to predict potentially private traits such as a person’s sexual orientation, political leanings, religion, intelligence, emotional stability and even if they abuse drugs or alcohol, just by analyzing their Facebook likes, according to a new study…
