B-day raises $1k for ‘A Note To My Kid’
Big Mike Phillips’ recent birthday event has raised $1,000 for aNoteToMyKid.com. More than 40 people joined Big Mike for the fundraiser at the Los Angeles Getty Center, Saturday March 3.
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Sunburst gets $2.5k
Wells Fargo has given $25,000 to The Center’s Sunburst Youth Housing Project and the Senior Services program. The Youth Housing project provides safe and supportive housing for San Diego’s homeless youth, including LGBT and HIV-positive youth. The 23-unit facility is located in downtown San Diego at 1640 Broadway, close to City College, public transportation, community…
Maryland makes history with marriage equality law
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed an historic bill extending marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples in the state. In a grand signing ceremony in Annapolis O’Malley said, “For a free and diverse people, for a people of many faiths, for a people committed to the principle of religious freedom, the…
Chad H. Griffin to head HRC
WASHINGTON – Chad H. Griffin has been appointed as the next president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) by the organization’s board of directors. Griffin, a national communications and policy strategist, is widely credited for being the mastermind behind the federal lawsuit to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which has now been ruled unconstitutional by two…
Bosses advised how to work with trans employees
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released a white paper titled: Transgender-Inclusive Health Care Coverage and the Corporate Equality Index, a resource for employers to make their workplaces more equitable for transgender employees. The white paper is an educational tool for employers…
Viral video targets Russian law
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – The bill banning so-called “propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia to minors” has passed in the 3rd reading in the St. Petersburg city parliament. Twenty-nine deputies voted in favor of the bill, five voted against the bill and one abstained. Fifteen deputies did not vote (either abstained, or were absent). Member of…
A surprisingly LGBT-interesting read
For most of your life, people have been making decisions on your behalf without you. When you were born, for instance, they decided whether you were a boy or a girl (usually, though not always, based on obvious visual clues). Because of that, they hung a gender-specific moniker on you, dressed you in pink or…
Reasor and other reasons to attend
This week there is a plethora of opening receptions at some of San Diego’s smaller, independent and LGBT-owned or oriented galleries. Here’s a chance to support the arts and local businesses simultaneously! Noel-Baza Fine Art Three Artists Paint the City features paintings and works on paper by Wade Cline, Kim Reasor and Brad Maxey. The…
Be open and true to yourself
Hopefully Hillcrest will soon be the home of a huge Rainbow Flag and Harvey Milk Street. People, politics, opinions So, Congressman David Dreier of California has decided not only to retire but stay in his closet ‘til the very end. This gay Republican could have done so much for our fight for equality, but never…