Today, The Advocate announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president of the United States in a new cover story. This is only the second time in the publication’s near 50-year history that it has made an endorsement in the Presidential election. The first came in 2012 during President Barack Obama’s bid for re-election. In…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF) has announced that Safdie Rabines Architects has been selected to transform 4545 Park Blvd. into San Diego’s LGBT Cultural and Performing Arts Center. Currently home to Diversionary Theatre and Lambda Archives of San Diego, the building at 4545 Park Blvd. has been a center for…
NEW YORK– Less than 24 hours after the NBA announced its decision to move the 2017 All-Star Game out of North Carolina due to the state’s anti-LGBT legislation, the NCAA announced all current and future NCAA events (from banquets to championship games) would be required to complete an LGBT climate survey. The survey is the…
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The leaders of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus will host the first ever openly transgender speaker at a major party convention next week in Philadelphia, Pa. The Caucus leaders have invited transgender activist Sarah McBride to speak during the portion of the Democratic convention program planned by the LGBT Members of Congress….
Gender and sexual diversity (GSD) is as much a part of real life as it’s portrayed in an endearing and funny new Web series titled Danny The Manny, directed by Mike Roma. I caught up with Roma via email recently and asked him to let us look under the hood of this pioneering and highly…
Dante Mastri, director of Brand Integration for American Express, addressed the crowd gathered at TRUST Restaurant Thursday (July 14) evening. “In these days of heated political rhetoric and national tragedy,” he said, “we think it’s more important than ever that people express love.” #ExpressLove is a nationwide campaign created and led by American Express’ employees…
The house stopped spinning and there was a thud. Everything was quiet and then she opened the door with her little dog too. There it all was beautifully laid out in front of her…and in color. Say goodbye to that insipid black and white Dorothy! Life is full of amazing colors and why not have…
SAN DIEGO– Jack Turner, local playwright and lyricist, is holding the first public Reading of Lube: A Modern Love Story a gay-themed, Broadway-style musical, at San Diego’s LGBT Center Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. All 24 of the songs written by composer Brandon Bowerman for the show will be played during the event, with many…
WASHINGTON — Friday, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Equality Act, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that Adobe Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Alcoa Inc., Automatic Data Processing Inc., Bank of America Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Cargill Inc., Chevron Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Darden Restaurants Inc., Delhaize America Inc.,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Latino Victory Fund, Latino Decisions and Fusion released the results of a poll conducted on the last night of the Republican National Convention, Thursday July 21, 2016, after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for President of the United States. The poll assessed Latinos’ attitudes towards the Republican nominee and the Republican Party during…
