One of the things I’ve learned about the LGBT community is that we do a really good job of shooting ourselves in the foot. So with that thought in mind, here’s a question for my peers: How does the LGBT community get more out of the Obama administration in the next two years – those…
Every hospital has one hallway that seems seven miles long. I’ve been to many hospitals and even though hospitals don’t all look alike, they all look like hospitals – and every one of them has one corridor that seems like its seven miles long. It doesn’t matter how long the hallway actually is. It doesn’t…
Violence has marred previous Pride parades in Moscow. RUSSIA – Moscow city officials have rejected an application for a gay Pride parade to be held in the city center later this month, citing a risk of public disorder. The organizers said in a statement that they received a letter last week from Moscow city hall…
The 75th anniversary celebration of the House of Pacific Relations-International Cottages is May 28 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park and the 31st annual Ethnic Food Fair is both Saturday and Sunday at the International Cottages. “Cultural presentations and understanding have been our passion,” says anniversary Chairman Mike Richards. “We were founded during the…
Out May 31 Two fastidious gay New Yorkers – one Martha Stewart’s former on-air doctor, the other an ad executive and ex-drag queen – decide to move to the country, start a farm and star in a reality show about it all. If it sounds like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy meets The Simple…
Gay fashion icon Tom Ford adapted Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name for his first film, and Colin Firth was nominated for an Oscar for playing the gay professor who tries to find happiness after his lover dies. Unfairly criticized for being too much about the 1960s art direction, the film is more than…
Last week, comedian Lisa Lampanelli told her Twitter followers that she would pledge $1,000 to the GMHS (Gay Men’s Health Crisis, one of New York’s most venerable HIV/AIDS prevention organization) for every protester sent to her Friday performance in Topeka by the violently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church group. A long-time advocate on behalf of the…
In February of this year, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a measure granting citizens the right to legal civil unions. Now, on June 2, 2011, Quinn will join Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Equality Illinois and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fun to take part in a civil union ceremony that will launch the new law…
OutServe, an association of active LGBT military service members, will hold the first annual OutServe Armed Forces Leadership Summit this fall in Las Vegas, Nevada. The summit meeting, which will take place October 13-16 at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino, is intended to give LGBT military personnel a forum within which to discuss…
