White House adds gender identity to LGBT equal employment opportunity Executive Order

Today, the White House released further amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity. Essentially the amendments added the words “gender identity” to the appropriate sentences of the Executive Orders. The Orders ensure that federal employees – who are already protected on the basis…

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Watch: Antigone Rising’s brand new music video ‘Get To You’ debuts today (VIDEO)

Antigone Rising’s brand new music video for their song “Get To You” officially hit cyberspace today. The all-female-boot-stompin’-alt-country-rock band, featured in San Diego LGBT Weekly May 8, issue 146, filmed the music video with directors Jie Yi and Valerie Lasser during their run of New England tour dates back in March  The catchy track is…

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HRC Foundation releases inaugural edition of ‘Equality Rising’

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation has released the inaugural edition of Equality Rising—a brief overview of many of the successes and setbacks of LGBT activists, advocates, and allies around the world in 2013.  Released in advance of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17th, this report aims to educate the…

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New Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich has a history of same-sex opposition

John Aravosis, the founder of the popular gay blog AmericaBlog.com, is reporting that Brendan Eich, the new CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, a Google-funded organization that oversees a number of ventures include the Firefox browser, donated $1,000 to help support Proposition 8, a measure that, for a time, banned same-sex couples from getting married in…

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Members of Pussy Riot released in Sochi

Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot were detained briefly Tuesday in central Sochi, after apparently being considered suspects in a theft at their hotel, and then released, CNN reported. Earlier in the day, band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were meeting with journalists when police detained them, according to Tolokonnikova’s husband, Petr…

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The Act of Killing

With inarguably the most important film released this year, out director Joshua Oppenheimer lays bare the emotional and moral reverberations of violence in a way no documentarian has ever done before. Interviews with several men who were leaders of death squads in Indonesia during the 1960s civil unrest become recreations of the hundreds of murders…

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Horror/thriller ‘Sanitarium’ released on DVD and digital download Dec. 31

For movie horror/thriller aficionados comes  Image Entertainment’s latest release on DVD and  digital download – Sanitarium. Horror Legend Robert Englund (Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm Street), John Glover (“Smallville”), Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) and Lou Diamond Phillips team up  in three chilling tales of unspeakable terror that will “drive you over the edge…

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Gay rapper LastO announces album ‘Where’s Vivian?’

NEW YORK – Out rapper and lyricist LastO is set to release his debut album, Where’s Vivian? Oct. 22  worldwide on iTunes, Amazon and other major online retailers via SolRay Records. With an indisputible underground buzz generated by five years worth of acclaimed mixtapes and EP’s,LastO is excited to finally deliver his strongest musical effort yet. Gracing headlines…

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