WASHINGTON – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced new regulations aimed at addressing discrimination in federal housing programs would become official this week. The draft regulations were announced in January 2011 and Secretary Donovan made the announcement today at the Creating Change conference in Baltimore. “The new regulations from HUD will help protect…
Gay marriage in New Jersey has taken a swing into the right direction after Newark Mayor Cory Booker blasted the state governor’s decision to leave the question of gay marriage up to a referendum. “Dear God, we should not put civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments and passions…
Administrators, parents, faculty and students at Alice Birney Elementary School in University Heights won’t know for a while whether the school’s cafeteria-auditorium will reopen during the current school year after it was damaged by someone police are calling a serial arsonist. That information was shared during a community meeting, at which Principal Amanda Hammond-Williams joined…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee state Rep. Richard Floyd (R) has been criticized for saying he would “stomp a mudhole” into a transgender person who tried to use a proper dressing room. Floyd is a sponsor of a bill that would prevent transgender people from accessing facilities that correspond with their gender identities. According to the…
TAKOMA PARK, Md. – Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. has come under fire for its policies and practices related to hospital visitation. Nov. 13, 2011, Kathryn Wilderotter was admitted to the hospital following a car accident. When Linda Cole, her legal spouse and partner of 11 years, arrived, she was reportedly not recognized…
My expectancy of a certain level of general knowledge is too often sadly unmet as happened this morning with a call to an un-named international airline to change the layover time on a United flight from Tokyo to San Diego via San Francisco. There was only a one and a half hour layover before departure…
My mom just celebrated another birthday (my father died of Alzheimer’s) and she has never been in a hospital and is still driving. People, politics and opinions The three Republicans who are running for mayor (Dumanis, DeMaio and Fletcher ) recently took part in a GOP debate and Nathan Fletcher went after DeMaio for using…
ABC has announced that the series Work It has been cancelled after two episodes. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and other LGBT advocacy organizations including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had spoken out against the series for its potential to cause harm to transgender people. The series debuted Jan. 3, to low…
“America’s leading gay news [source],” The Advocate, recently released its annual Gayest Cities in America list. To be sure, the staid newsmagazine, which has been and continues to be an informative beacon amid a lightning storm of here-today-gone-tomorrow LGBT media outlets, should be acknowledged. However, The Advocate’s Gayest Cities in America list was meant to…
