There seems to be conflicting statements coming from Rep. Barney Frank and his Legislative Assistant Diego Sanchez regarding why the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) didn’t make it out of the House Education and Labor Committee in the 111th Congress. In a January, 2010 article for The Advocate Rep. Frank stated, “There continues to be concerns…
I’ve been eager to continue our conversation from last week on the third of The Four Agreements from the book by Don Miguel Ruiz: Don’t Take Anything Personally. When we left off, we had been talking about how freeing ourselves from other’s inaccurate opinions of us, from their emotional garbage, can ease our need to…
When San Diego local Jarett Wilkins headed out to The Lamplighter on Tuesday night, he was simply looking for a low-key good time – a little karaoke and a few drinks with friends visiting from out of town. But when Wilkins went to take the karaoke stage, he found himself the brunt of offensive, anti-gay…
In an already crowded field of candidates for the San Diego Mayoral election 2012, word has now come that California State Senator Christine Kehoe is making calls to San Diego movers and shakers about possibly joining the race. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is already considered a clear front runner candidate, along with heavy-hitters State Assemblyman…
In response to news of his cancelled California speaking tour, Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseev published a statement yesterday to address controversial, seemingly anti-semetic blog posts published in response to recent revolutionary events in Egypt. Alekseev began his statement by emphasizing his strong belief in human rights and equality for everyone, “irrespective of any…
As part of a planned increase in education enrichment programs, the White House will host a conference next week at which President Obama will address concerns surrounding anti-LGBT bullying. In the wake several high-profile, bullying-related suicides last year, the issue of LGBT bullying and its effect on education and safety has received new attention and…
Chief Justice John Roberts summed up today’s Supreme Court ruling in the case of Snyder v. Phelps with a simple statement: according to 8 out of 9 justices, the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church members who protested at the funeral of gay Iraq war veteran Matthew Snyder “had the right to be where they were.” MetroWeekly…
UNITED KINGDOM – Hundreds of people gathered outside the locked doors of the John Snow pub in Soho, London last week and staged a mass kiss-in at 7 p.m. as a protest at the London pub after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing. Several weeks ago two men were asked to…
Amidst the media flurry surrounding the Obama administration’s decision last week to discontinue court defense of the DOMA, the White House made another landmark move in support of LGBT equality. Officials announced last Friday that Jeremy Bernard, an openly gay senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, will assume the position of President’ Obama’s…
California’s attorney general Kamala Harris requested today that a federal appeals court allow same-sex marriages to resume during the California Supreme Court’s consideration of legal questions surrounding the state’s ban on gay marriage. In a letter to the 9th Ciruit Court of Appeals, Harris argued that a continued enforcement of Proposition 8 was in direct…
