Join the Women’s Resource Center and Family Matters for a special Sapphic Cinema screening of the award-winning film The Kids Are All Right on March 18 at 7 p.m. at The LGBT Center. The film will be screened for free in The Center’s auditorium. Refreshments will be available for a small donation. Childcare is available…
Vista Community Clinic is offering a breast cancer screening clinic specifically for low-income lesbians, transgender and bisexual women ages 40 years and older. Qualified participants will receive breast cancer education, a clinical breast exam and a mammogram referral. In some cases, mammogram appointments may be available on the same day. Clinic will be held March…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The relationship with the LGBT community and the black church has never been easy. In fact, it’s become a little violent at times and isolating for many. But now some are trying to make amends. Recently a meeting took place in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fort Washington, Md. where several ministers…
SAN FRANCISCO – The first GLBT History Museum in the U.S., which opened in mid-January 2011 in San Francisco’s Castro District, has drawn extraordinary media attention from across the United States and around the world, according to a report released by the museum a month after its debut. Tens of thousands of newspapers, magazines, television…
ILLINOIS – A federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling allowing high school students to display messages critical of homosexuality. Neuqua Valley High School had allowed students to participate in a “Day of Silence” to protest against LGBT harassment. The day after, student Heidi Zamecnik wore a T-shirt that read, “Be Happy, Not Gay.”…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to allow The Westboro Baptist Church to make anti-gay protests at military funerals, with a majority vote of 8-1. The court found that the church members should be allowed to picket funerals by relying on their First Amendment rights to free speech. The court declared…
SWEDEN – A gay couple from Germany achieved a first last week as they married on an airplane between Stockholm and New York. They wed on board a SAS flight, a Scandinavian airline owned by the governments of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, which all recognize gay marriage. SAS has been conducting heterosexual weddings in the…
TURKEY – Halil Ibrahim Dinçdag˘, 35, who was forced by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) to leave his position as a professional soccer referee, has said he will continue with his legal battle against the TFF. Dinçdag˘ was barred from officiating matches in 2008 after his medical report showed that he had been excused from…
The essence of a one-pot meal is it is economical, dishwasher friendly and (if the recipe is right) brings people together. In this time of a subdued economy, the one-pot meal has brought me household savings and communion over the stove, both of which provide relief from what can otherwise be an unnerving time. So,…
