Local school boards and communities this week continued their progress towards implementing the School Success and Opportunity Act, which Governor Brown signed earlier this year. The new law, AB1266, restates existing anti-discrimination law to ensure that all students, including transgender students, have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools. Kane Tajnai, a student…
SAN FRANCISCO — Friendfactor, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organization for straight friends, has announced that it is now accepting additional applications for its first ever Friendfactor Workplace Ally Challenge. The six month program challenges businesses to engage as many employees as possible in taking action to create LGBT-inclusive culture in their…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Pride has announced that the organization’s charitable giving in 2013 totaled $146,000, a marked increase over the organization’s giving in the previous year. Pride strives each year to return profits from the annual LGBT Pride Weekend festivities to the community. This year’s July celebration was particularly successful, which allowed the…
http://youtu.be/7p6LvuwI7GQ LOS ANGELES — The It Gets Better Project (IGB) was founded in October 2010 by Dan Savage and Terry Miller with a YouTube video that ignited a global movement. The video’s message was simple: life does get better for LGBT youth. Three years later, IGB has launched a new video campaign in response to Russia’s discriminatory…
SAN DIEGO – Music is a universal language with the magical ability of bringing together people from all walks of life. This is one of the reasons why the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) was formed nearly 30 years ago—to build bridges between the gay community and San Diegans everywhere. Since then, the chorus has performed…
This year, California became the first state in the nation to proactively support transgender students’ rights with the signing of Assembly Bill 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act. The bill guarantees transgender students safe access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that corresponds with the student’s gender identity. Prohibiting a student from doing…
WASHINGTON — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has called on Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which would provide strong federal protections against discrimination, making it illegal to base hiring decisions or to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. “Workers for more than a century have joined forces to…
WASHINGTON – No Republican state legislator who has voted for LGBT workplace non-discrimination protections has lost re-election because of that vote. Over the course of 31 different votes in 21 states over the past 30 years, 451 Republican state legislators have voted in favor of workplace non-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)…
Today, Alan van Capelle, CEO of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, issued the following statement on the Senate’s consideration of the Employee Non-Discrimination Act: “Discrimination and intimidation at the workplace is the adult version of schoolyard bullying. It’s wrong, yet through years of inaction, we’ve allowed it to continue to this day. Firing someone based on their…
What happens when the publishing industry is in crisis? The first titles to be dropped are LGBT authors of color. Please support LGBT authors of color and spend a few minutes at the new San Diego Central Library. Hear a panel discussion on this subject and a reading from two brilliant Gay Latino authors, Saturday Nov….
