The great thing about politics is all can participate. Unfortunately most don’t. I recently wrote an Open Letter to City Council, regarding Todd Gloria. In it I stated that the vast majority of the LGBT community supports Gloria for council president to honor his leadership during one of the most difficult times in San Diego…
In one of his last actions as Attorney General, Eric Holder will announce new limits to racial profiling at the Department of Justice. Holder has reputedly been working on the new limits since 2009 but the recent spate of issues concerning Africa American males seems to have moved the item to the top of Holder’s…
San Diego LGBT Weekly made clear the opinion of the majority of the LGBT community in our Open Letter to City Council, regarding Todd Gloria that appeared on December 4th. There is now a petition to show support for Todd Gloria to remain as president of San Diego City Council. Signing the petition takes less than…
Dear San Diego City Council: The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is everywhere; in every city council district and neighborhood in America’s Finest City. We also vote in significant numbers in every election representing about 5% of the electorate in our great city. As winners are being decided by smaller and smaller margins in…
The Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny, showed his support for the LGBT community in Ireland by attending a Christmas party at a famous gay bar in Dublin. Kenny attended a holiday event at Pantibar, a drinking establishment owned by Rory O’Neill also known as Panti Bliss. The Prime Minister was joined by the Children’s…
Just in time to inform your holiday season buying, the Human Rights Campaign has release its 2015 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The CEI is meant to inform the LGBT community and beyond about those organizations that support equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We took a gander at the list, picked ten…
Each year we celebrate Thanksgiving to take stock of what’s important and how we have been blessed in the last year. The LGBT community has so much to celebrate in 2014, but none is more important than our march to marriage equality. Who could have predicted, in just one short year, our community would reach…
It is not an urban legend that the Reagan administration contributed to the AIDS crisis by its lack of attention to the issue, as well as its general uncomfortable relationship with LGBT Americans. Thanks to the Mattachine Society of Washington D.C., an organization that performs archival research related to gay and lesbian history, and the…
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Singer Adam Lambert has started a conversation about whether pop stars like Nick Jonas are pandering to their gay male fans. Lambert posted this on Twitter: Jonas showed his awesome assets at a gay nightclub earlier this year. Do you think that images like these of Nick Jonas are pandering to the gay male community?…
