On the surface, there’s nothing especially gay about Austin’s massive South by Southwest music festival. But according to The Dallas Voice, a little digging yields myriad LGBT festival features including artists, films, events, venues…and plenty of eye-candy to go around. In light of this discovery, the Voice published a list of the top ten LGBT…
This Wednesday will mark the inaugural Wall Street summit on LGBT community issues and involvement. The event, hosted by Deutsch Bank and titled ”Out on the Street”, will include six of Wall Street’s biggest banks and focus on panel discussions highlighting culture change, recruitment, client development and business impact with regard to LGBT employees and…
Farley Granger, stage and screen star and author of the 2007 memoir “Include Me Out,” passed away Sunday at his home in New York. Most known for his roles in Hitchock thrillers like the 1951 classic Strangers on a Train and the 1948 murder mystery Rope, Granger got his start in Hollywood before buying out…
On January 24, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed new rules designed to improve equal housing access for LGBT individuals. The measure would prohibit any housing aid groups that receive federal funding from discriminating against gays, lesbians or transgender persons. In an explanation of the proposed rules, HUD cited recent studies indicating…
This week marks the 9th Annual National LGBT Health Awareness Week from March 28 to April 1. Celebrate in style by getting tested and sharing the importance of LGBT health to your health provider. LGBT Health Awareness Week aims to shed light on the devastating cycle of healthcare discriminatory acts against the LGBT community. According…
Girl Bar Dinah Shore Week 2011 is taking place this week at the Palm Springs strip. This year, the party will be held at the Palm Springs Hyatt Regency Resort, a beautifully refashioned hotel right in the center of the renowned Palm Springs strip. Events start Wednesday, March 30 and will continue raging on until…
In a follow up to our Behind the Scenes news story about Canvass for a Cause (CFAC), LGBT Weekly has gotten an exclusive story on what the organization expects from the mega-retailer in the following weeks, according to reps canvassing today outside a Target store in Poway. Reps for CFAC, who identified themselves as volunteers…
Close on the heels of this week’s U.S.-led move at the United Nations condemning violence against the LGBT community, a long-standing and infamous bill advocating life imprisonment and possible execution for Ugandan homosexuals appears to be dead. Ugandan officials have made comments to the media indicating that the proposed legislation duplicated other extant laws. “I…
The Washington Blade reported today that the House committee in Maryland voted 15-8 to approve a bill banning employment and housing discrimination against transgender people. The bill will now face the full House of Delegates, where it must be approved by Monday in order to progress to the Senate for approval. Support of the bill…
