NEW YORK— To celebrate all the “allies” who support the LGBT community, Columbia Business School held its annual Ally Week Nov. 14–18. Ally Week provided an opportunity for all students to appreciate the richness and benefits of being such a diverse community, and to share what everyone has in common rather than focus on what…
Recently, The Huffington Post launched “The Zainab Salbi Project,” an original video series covering global issues from a woman’s perspective. The six-part series follows Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi-American women’s rights activist, as she travels the world shedding light on those issues through personal stories of people who are struggling, surviving and thriving in conflict regions….
Lee Lynch’s latest novel, Rainbow Gap, will be released Dec. 1. Lynch, whose Amazon Trail column appears regularly on LGBTweekly.com has been writing about and for gay people her whole career. According to Lynch her goal has always been to “ … enhance our lives in ways that help us all to find fulfillment, strength…
LOS ANGELES – The Trevor Project have announced that Facebook will be honored with the 20/20 Visionary Award and Ingrid Nilsen will receive the Trevor Digital Innovator Award at TrevorLIVE Los Angeles Dec. 4. TrevorLIVE LA, which will be special guest-directed by Chris Folkens, is an irreverent evening of comedy and music to help raise awareness…
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised over $3,500,000 for election recounts in three key states that cost Hillary Clinton the presidency: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. According to Stein’s Web site the recount costs for Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have been met and the focus is now on raising the needed funds for Michigan’s recount….
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch, died Thursday at the age of 82. According to her publicist, Kayla Pressman Henderson died of heart failure. The Brady Bunch ran from 1969 to 1974, and the sitcom about a blended family of three girls and three boys growing up under one roof in Los…
https://youtu.be/hIpJM4KioE4 SAN DIEGO, – With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria will visit small neighborhood businesses in North Park tomorrow as part of Small Business Saturday, the national day to celebrate and support local small businesses, in an effort encourage all San Diegans to “shop small” this…
After recently meeting with anti-LGBTQ mogul Jerry Falwell Jr. about education issues, Donald Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. DeVos and her family foundations have donated millions of dollars to extreme, anti-LGBTQ organizations. Some have promoted dangerous, unscientific “conversion therapies” to convert LGBTQ youth and all of them have fought against basic nondiscrimination…
Ellen DeGeneres was one of 21 recipients honored Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “In a career spanning three decades, Ellen DeGeneres has lifted our spirits and brought joy to our lives as a stand-up comic, actor and television star,” a White House aides said summarizing her career. “At a pivotal moment, her courage and candor…
