The San Diego LGBT Community Center has put a call out for AIDS Walk/Run San Diego volunteers. Join them this year and help them get ready for the 27th annual AIDS Walk San Diego. “Simply put, volunteers make AIDS Walk/Run possible – and they make it fun,” said Sarah Merk-Benitez, volunteer coordinator. “AIDS Walk raises…
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday halted a lower court’s order forbidding a Virginia school district from enforcing its discriminatory ban on transgender students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The 5-3 order in Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm allows the school board’s discriminatory policy to remain in place while the Supreme Court awaits…
Claire Kittrell, who created the viral Gingers Do Have Souls video and starred in the reality show Hollywood Hillbillies, came out as transgender in an YouTube video yesterday. “Please watch the whole way through before you judge,” wrote Kittrell on YouTube. “I am so tired. I’ve tried filming this 100 times today and I am…
The award-winning web series, Where the Bears Are, is back and better than ever having launched yet another incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign! From the creative team of Rick Copp (The Brady Bunch Movie) Joe Dietl (The Thin Pink Line) and Ben Zook (Jack and Jill) comes Where the Bears Are a comedy mystery web series…
In a clear show of discontent with the North Carolina legislature and the passage of HB2, the most stringently anti-LGBT law in the country, the Equality North Carolina Foundation received the highest number of donations of any national mid-size LGBT organization in the United States and any LGBT organization in the entire South over the…
Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday the plan she would embark on as president to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the U. S. and around the world. Her blueprint includes enhancing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, convening working groups to develop aggressive actions to combat the spread of HIV, and launching a campaign to combat stigma…
The Seattle City Council yesterday unanimously approved an ordinance protecting youth from “gay conversion therapy.” The Seattle ordinance provides for a fine of $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for any violation after that, The Advocate reports. There will also be misdemeanor charges for advertising conversion therapy. Seattle becomes the 10th jurisdiction to enact…
With the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro set to start this Friday the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) reported that a record number of out Olympians are set to participate in the games. While many LGBT athletes continue to face discrimination in their sports, several have chosen to speak out proudly about who they are,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the American Military Partner Association (AMPA), the nation’s largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) military families, announced that Maj. Gen. Patricia “Trish” A. Rose, the highest ranking openly LGBT service member in the U.S. military, will be honored at the inaugural AMPA West Coast Gala Saturday, Sept. 17,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Former Army private Chelsea Manning faces indefinite solitary confinement as a result of administrative charges brought against her, which include a suicide attempt. Manning, a transgender woman, was convicted in 2013 for leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks. The latest incident is part of the ongoing mistreatment Manning has experienced at the men’s…
