WASHINGTON – The United States entered into a settlement agreement with the Arcadia Unified School District in Arcadia, Calif., to resolve an investigation into allegations of discrimination against a transgender student based on the student’s sex. Under the agreement, approved by the district’s school board unanimously last night, the school district will take a number…
CHICAGO — The American Osteopathic Association’s House of Delegates approved a policy today calling for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to modify its eligible blood donor criteria by allowing men who have had sex with other men to donate blood. Currently the FDA bans these individuals from donating blood due to concerns of the…
Late Friday State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris issued the following statement in response to San Diego County Clerk Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr.’s filing asking the state Supreme Court to halt same-sex weddings pending a court hearing. “The filing offers no new arguments that could deny same-sex couples their constitutionally protected civil rights. The federal…
dvd of the week San Diego was never given the opportunity to see this road trip film about two aging lesbians, Dot and Stella (Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker), on the run from a nursing home. The only way they can prevent Dot from being forced into elder care by her granddaughter is…
LONDON — Today, Queen Elizabeth II signed the equal marriage bill making it law in England and Wales. PinkNews reported that the Queen’s Royal Assent was granted to the bill at 15:06 GMT today, turning it into the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, after clearing the final stage in Parliament yesterday, following two hours of…
WASHINGTON – American hospitals and clinics are increasingly committed to equality for their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients, according to a report published July 11 by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, at a press conference at the Department of Veterans Affairs…
LONDON (CNN) — A bill to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales passed the British House of Commons on Tuesday, clearing the way for it to go before Queen Elizabeth II for royal approval before the end of the week. With the queen’s approval — a formality in the UK — the first same-sex…
SINGAPORE — For Gary Lim, 44, and Kenneth Chee, 37, in a relationship for 15 years, the High Court ruling in April which upheld the constitutional ban on same-sex sexual relations – known now simply as 377A – was an affront to their legal identity. The court famously wrote: “It is clear that Parliament saw…
In February, San Diego LGBT Pride announced the theme of the 39th annual Pride celebration weekend – Freedom to Love and Marry. At the time of the announcement, San Diego Pride Public Affairs Director Fernando Lopez said, “We are standing at a critical moment in our movement when the very question of our ability to…
Five years may be the blink of an eye on the road to justice, but when you’ve celebrated victory only to have it snatched away, when the fundamental worth of your family has been actively denied at the ballot box, it can seem like a very, very long time. Now, after five long, painful years,…
