When I came to San Diego from West Hollywood one year ago, I thought I was leaving the epicenter of all LGBT life and retreating to the quiet provinces for a more placid existence. How fooled I was by the bucolic air in this city of surfers. San Diego is, without a doubt, the hub…
(CNN) – Former Seinfeld star Jason Alexander got on the wrong side of some of his fans when he made a wisecrack about cricket being a “gay” sport, and he’s since apologized. The actor was speaking with Craig Ferguson on CBS’ The Late Late Show when the topic came up, and Alexander said cricket was,…
Screenings of out Episcopalian bishop, Gene Robinson’s Sundance-featured anti-bullying film, Love Free, or Die has brought him mostly positive reactions across the country, from big cities to small towns. Now, a screening in an exotic locale – on a cruise ship amid the Greek isles – will take him on a trip of a lifetime…
American Idol star Adam Lambert, believes American attitudes to homosexuality are changing so fast, the country is in the middle of a “big civil rights movement.” Lambert, who recently became the first out gay man to top the U.S. Billboard album chart with the album Trespassing told the Independent, “[America] is in the midst of…
When the man who wrote some of the most memorable and important words ever spoken in the history of the English language has something to say; when Dr. Clarence Jones, speechwriter for the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has something to say; people’s ears tend to perk up. Expect thousands of perked-up ears…
PARIS – France’s prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault has told parliament that gay couples will be permitted to marry and adopt children in 2013.
Here we are in San Diego, Calif. a city on the U.S. border with Mexico. We live within a nation of immigrants in a state that used to be a part of the country of Mexico. And here we are, as LGBT Californians – as LGBT Americans – aware of how we aren’t granted the…
TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) – Gay Pride 2012 drew tens of thousands of people to the streets of Tel Aviv earlier this month to celebrate the city’s annual gay pride event. The partygoers started their journey at a community park and walked through several main streets in the heart of the city before holding a…
LOS ANGELES (CNN) – While he predicted Republicans would adopt a bumper sticker slogan of “It’s Obama’s fault” this election year, President Barack Obama maintained he was “very proud” of his work in the past three and a half years. “They’re going to say, ‘Well you know what, you’re still not satisfied, then it’s Obama’s…
(CNN) – The daughter of Cuba’s president supports the re-election bid of President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast recently on CNNi’s Amanpour. “As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro…
