As Gay Games 9 is set to begin in Cleveland tomorrow, Michael Sam, one of the world’s highest profile LGBT athletes, is urging people to take part in the first international study on homophobia in sports. The study is the first to collect national data about discrimination in the United States as well as other major,…
Dear Editor, Again, just what we need, a Republican drag queen – who has crowned himself “the Mayor of Hillcrest [sic]” – giving us a GLOWING report of how he spent his Pride weekend cavorting with all the Republican candidates. I don’t know what to call it: Stockholm syndrome? If you are gay and call…
How does that sound for a new title of Nicole Murray Ramirez’s column? Nicole has finally jumped the shark. As many of you know, the term refers to a scene from the TV series Happy Days where the Fonz jumps over a shark while waterskiing. The phrase has come to mean the desperation of something…
LOS ANGELES, – Award-winning out filmmaker Rolla Selbak is releasing a new online “interview” series called “Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking”, in which she shares her personal Hollywood vlogs as she visits some of the most prominent lesbian filmmakers making it happen today. Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking offers an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes, showing the magic, behind…
Six athletes from Israel will be competing in the upcoming Gay Games which they hope will be an opportunity to tell the world what it means to be gay in the only country in West Asia not to criminalize same-sex relations, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “It will be an opportunity for people from all over the world…
Internationally known New York City drag queen, actress, comedienne, columnist, and cocktail connoisseur Jeza Belle will make her publishing debut Oct. 7, with The Harlot’s Guide To Classy Cocktails. Part drink recipe book, part he-larious drunken memoir, the coffee table book contains Jeza’s own classy (The Dietrich) and, uh, not-so-classy (MAI Cock is TAI-ed Back) cocktail recipes along with…
SACRAMENTO – The California Assembly today passed legislation that requires all smartphones sold in California to come pre-equipped with theft-deterring technological solutions to render the device useless if stolen. Senate Bill 962, authored by Senator Mark Leno and sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, addresses the growing epidemic of smartphone theft. It requires…
blaA recent survey finds that many young people of color disagree with same-sex marriage being the top priority of the LGBT agenda, pointing instead to other issues like HIV/AIDS and bullying. The new survey, “Moving Beyond Marriage: What Young People of Color Think about the LGBT Agenda” from the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago,…
WASHINGTON – In less than 48 hours, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has staked out a perilous position on the issue of marriage equality. After telling a group of Republicans yesterday that he is “in favor of the concept” of a Federal Marriage Amendment, in a new interview released today, the presumptive 2016 GOP presidential candidate seemed…
Today, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), launched Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT). ACT is an ambitious $200 million initiative to double the total number of children receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) across ten priority African countries over the next two years. This investment…
