University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned Monday after calls from students, faculty and lawmakers for him to step down. Wolfe faced pressure to resign because of how he has handled racial tensions on campus, as well as other issues, reports The Huffington Post. The decision comes after months of peaceful protests organized by the…
The continuation of the celebration of marriage equality feels good – as evidenced by a record-breaking Pride attendance! It feels like finally justice acted on behalf of marriage equality and for many of us, it’s very personal. It feels as if justice were enacted on our behalf. But what about the times when we feel…
By Danielle McGuire (CNN) — In the wake of Barack Obama’s second inauguration, it is easy to forget about the daily indignities and terror African-Americans have endured; easy to forget that simply surviving segregation required ordinary people to engage in extraordinary acts of courage every single day. Like so many African-Americans who came of age…
LOS ANGELES – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), has released its sixth annual Network Responsibility Index (NRI), a report that maps the quantity, quality and diversity of images of LGBT people on television. Primetime programming on the five broadcast networks was evaluated as well as original primetime programming on 10 major cable…
(CNN) — Only one in 500 Americans is a black gay or bisexual male, but black men who have sex with men (MSM) account for one in four new HIV infections in the United States, according to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute (BAI). Just days away from the first International AIDS Conference…
We get it. Millennials, those born roughly between 1983 and 2001, thunderously approve of same-sex marriage. Poll after poll after poll indicates that the generation that enters the last year of its 20s this year not only endorses the civil rights of same-sex couples, but has claimed the revelation of its position as its very…
Spoiler Alert: If you don’t want to know more about The Hunger Games, read no further. You should probably stay in your house and turn off your phone and computer, too. The Hunger Games has a little something for everyone. The sci-fi crowd gets a post-apocalyptic planet with both high-tech hovercrafts and pre-industrial foraging. Romantics…
(CNN — San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Within the next day or two we could hear from the special prosecutor’s office about her decision on whether to charge George Zimmerman. Regardless of what she says, chances are a lot of people are not going to be happy with the decision. It’s an emotional story with…
LGBT Weekly social media reporter, Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, who is a veteran of the Iraq War and who is Puerto Rican, was likened to a feces-throwing monkey in a Twitter post from an account owned by the life partner of the leading San Diego mayoral candidate, City Councilman Carl DeMaio. The tweet in question contained a…
