2016 has been a year of progress for the LGBT community, but unfortunately the entire year is best characterized as the year of backlash. Whether it is the election of the Trump/Pence ticket, that attack on the trans community with respect to bathroom access or the deadly massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, 2016…
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has accepted an invitation to sing at the swearing-in ceremony during the presidential inauguration for President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Michael R. Pence.at the U.S. Capitol next month in Washington, D.C. This performance will mark the sixth time the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has sung at an inauguration. These inaugural…
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, thousands will gather to march at the San Diego Women’s March, held in solidarity with the Women’s March On Washington. Women, men and children of all backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities, religions, orientations and political affiliations will come together at 10a.m. for this peaceful event the day after the presidential inauguration in response…
RALEIGH — After breaking their word by refusing to allow a clean vote on full repeal of HB2, Republican lawmakers are now blaming Democrats for not going along with the GOP plan to leave parts of HB2 in place indefinitely. Instead of fully repealing HB2, Republicans proposed to indefinitely extend the provision of HB2 prohibiting…
Today, the North Carolina General Assembly failed to repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2. Full repeal of HB2 was a central part of a deal negotiated by Governor-elect Roy Cooper that included the recent repeal of Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance. At the last minute, GOP leadership in the General Assembly blew up the deal when they…
North Carolina’s infamous “Bathroom Bill” HB 2 could be repealed today. House Bill 2, signed into law in March, bans people from using public bathrooms that don’t correspond to their biological sex. Following Charlotte City Council’s rescinding of its nondiscrimination ordinance a special session by the state legislature to repeal HB2 is expected today. “The…
SAN FRANCISCO — A new exhibition at the GLBT History Museum will feature the work of cartoonist Fran Frisch as a starting point for exploring the history of the bear community, a subculture that developed in the 1980s to celebrate older, larger, hairier, ruggedly masculine gay men who had been largely excluded from standards of…
LOS ANGELES — GYATRi Media announced Monday the romantic LGBTQ short film, NUNE, is to release on DVD in time for Christmas. The indie film’s recent direct-to-digital release on iTunes and Google Play has gained steady momentum among millennials and audiences in the LGBT community. The DVD is available on Amazon for fans that want to…
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.,– Family members of Tevin Crosby, Juan Guerrero and Javier Jorge-Reyes who were killed in the ISIS inspired Orlando, Fla. shooting at Pulse Nightclub in June 2016, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday, Dec. 19, naming Google, Facebook and Twitter as defendants for providing material support to the terrorist group ISIS. The lawsuit asserts…
GLAAD, the world’s LGBTQ media advocacy organization, looks back at 2016 and the great LGBTQ moments from the entertainment industry. First, a look at the celebrities who made waves when they came out as LGBTQ over the past year from actors Charlie Carver and Colton Hayes to Film Director Lilly Wachowski. These and many more have influenced the global conversation on LGBTQ acceptance by…
