Billy Canu and his husband, Michael Harbron were flying home after spending Thanksgiving away with friends and relatives. Harbron and Canu, the latter of whom is CEO and cofounder of a successful search engine optimization and Web-marketing firm with offices in San Diego and London, say they got a rude awakening about bigotry, and how…
San Diego is missing the most important non-medical component of HIV/AIDS prevention, according to a local housing advocate, and, he says, the result is unnecessary death and illness from the disease. Tom McSorley is director of development at Townspeople, a housing program for the city’s most vulnerable residents – especially for homeless people who are…
Transgender men and women will be an officially protected class in Massachusetts now that Governor Deval Patrick signed an important equal rights bill Wednesday. The newly-enacted legislation will forbid any discrimination based on gender identity. The law will also extend criminal prosecution statues to include hate crimes and acts of violence against transgender men and…
Major League Baseball has adopted a new non-discrimination policy to include gay players as a part of their protected classes, The New York Daily News reports. The MLB and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association amended Article XV of the agreement which was due to renew this year. In addition to protecting “race, color, religion…
NEW YORK – In a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by prominent local politicians and community leaders, The Asian and Pacific Islanders Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), one of New York’s most progressive community health centers, has opened a transgender clinic. The groundbreaking APICHA Transgender Clinic, made possible by a generous three-year grant from the Paul Rapoport Foundation,…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Filming has just finished on, Snow Flowers, a lesbian love story being dubbed “Brokeback Everest” and set to be the first gay feature film in the 60-year history of Nepalese cinema. The movie, due for general release in the spring, is directed by Paris-based film-maker Suwarna Thapa, and stars Nepal’s leading actresses,…
20th Annual Tree of Life ceremony The 20th Annual Tree of Life ceremony observes the 30th Annual World AIDS Day in support of Mama’s Kitchen, with the help of The Center and Village Hillcrest. Those and other organizations and individuals will commemorate World AIDS Day by “recognizing and remembering those affected by AIDS, as well…
Admit it – you’ve done some dumb things in your life. And now that you’ve admitted it, you can blame it on youth. It’s OK. You were a dumb kid. From the curfews broken, hearts broken, laws broken and the bones broken, you did a lot of things you can look back upon now that…
If I had to guess where most of us might be on Friday, Nov. 25, here’s where I’d begin: One: With family in one of those freezing cold states east of California. Two: Stuck at the airport. Three: Lying on the sofa in a tryptophan stupor, or Four: Beating other shoppers away with a stick…
Last week, I was getting coffee at Starbucks like I normally do, in and out, no problem. This particular day there was a line that was longer than usual; I came out to my car, just as a parking ticket was being placed on my windshield because I didn’t put a quarter in the parking…
