Transgender activist Chaz Bono, most recently beloved for his performance on Dancing with the Stars, will be honored at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s 40th Anniversary Gala & Auction. The event will be hosted by Leslie Jordan, featuring Jane Lynch on Saturday, Nov. 12. Bono will be honored with the Center’s Board of Directors…
“If I was gay, don’t you think she would’ve said something about it in the divorce three or four years ago? I mean, why now when the book’s [already] come out?” asked Hulk Hogan during his interview Wednesday at the Howard Stern show. Hogan denied his wife’s claims that he had an affair with wrestling…
A gay couple in New Orleans who requested both names to be listed on their adopted child’s birth certificate was denied Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The unmarried New York couple, Oren Adar and Mickey Smith, adopted their Louisiana-born son in their homestate in 2006, later requesting the birth certificate from Louisiana’s state registrar…
On Monday’s Late Night with David Letterman, Tracy Morgan explained that his anti-gay slurs during his stand-up act in June was “a misunderstanding” and that he was just trying to be funny. “I just think it was a misunderstanding. I was up there working,” he told Letterman. “[Y]ou have networks, maybe like Comedy Central, where…
Today marks National Coming Out Day, where closeted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to speak up about their sexual orientation. As National Coming Out Day is celebrated across the nation, the premise of the observance is to promote greater self-acceptance in letting young people know it’s okay to be gay. According to…
Anna Grodzka, president of TGEU, will take her seat as Poland’s first elected member of parliament. Grodzka has been a longtime supporter of LGBT equality throughout Europe and was a candidate of the Palikot Movement, a new political party that has taken special interest in LGBT issues during election. “This is an incredible step forward…
SAN DIEGO –Join LGBT activists and allies Tuesday, October 11th, at 7:30 pm, at the National Council of Jewish Women, Room 103, 543 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90036. This past week, Equality California (EQCA) abandoned its effort to repeal Prop 8 in 2012. EQCA’s decision comes despite its members’ favoring going to the…
Governor Brown announced Sunday that two important transgender bills have been signed into California law, making the state less discriminatory against its transgender population. The first passed law, the Gender Nondiscrimination Act, will protect transgender people against discrimination in the workplace, school, housing, and other public settings. The second law, the Vital Statistics Modernization Act,…
Equality California, the state’s largest gay rights group, announced Wednesday it would not lead a ballot campaign to overturn Proposition 8 – a discriminatory law that prohibits same-sex marriages due to a constitutional amendment that limits marriage to that between a man and woman. The reason for the fallout is described as a divided vote…
Dan Choi, a gay veteran of the United States Army, announced Friday he would re-enlist in the service after being discharged under the fallen Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Choi began the process of re-enlisting in the army in New York on Sept. 22, just two days after the discriminatory military policy was rescinded, CBS…
