OKLAHOMA CITY – Woven LLC, the Oklahoma City-based company that provides resources to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has announced that its Web site, livewoven.com, will launch Oct. 11. Woven founder and CEO Melinda Olbert, who chose Oct. 11 as the company’s launch date, said, “With October 11th being National Coming Out…
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The Pacific Justice Institute is warning parents to take immediate action to prevent their children from being blindsided by explicit and highly objectionable material during LGBT History Month, which began Oct. 1. A patchwork of schools, districts, and individual teachers across the country are expected to promote LGBT History Month to students during October. The leading…
NEW YORK — Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News have announced an esteemed panel of eight individual and impartial judges for the 2014 Multicultural TV Leadership Awards, being presented Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 during the Multicultural TV Summit in New York City at the Grand Hyatt. The list of judges includes a leading religious leader from the African American community,…
STOCKHOLM — Live and Let Love is a message to the Russian LGBT-people that they are not alone, but also an urging to Russian leaders to choose love instead of hate and fear when making laws to rule over people’s lives, their human rights, and above all, their love. Oct. 6, Live and Let Love will…
NEW YORK ― Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) is launching the National Equality Action Team (NEAT), a coalition of almost 50 local, state and national organizations and individual organizers mobilizing volunteers to win the freedom to marry in states with active marriage equality campaigns. Volunteers are able to sign up on the NEAT website to join events near…
SAN FRANCISCO — How to Survive a Plague tells the story of two coalitions, ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), whose fearless activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving…
Judge Richard Stearns, of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, has entered judgment in favor of the same-sex married couples who challenged the laws that discriminated against them in the military. Plaintiffs in the case, McLaughlin v. Hagel, attacked the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and spousal definitions in three other titles of…
Singapore High Court Justice Quentin Loh today released a judgment in the Constitutional challenge of statute 377A of the Singapore Penal Code, upholding the law which criminalizes sex between men and provides a jail term of up to two years. In a 54-page judgment, Justice Loh has “found that the statute has not infringed the…
October is LGBT History Month! Each day in October, a new LGBT icon is featured and celebrated. Background In 1994, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, believed a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, and gathered other teachers and community leaders. They selected October because public schools are…
SAN DIEGO – In celebration of National Coming Out Day, and in honor of the political achievements of the local LGBT community, Lambda Archives of San Diego (LASD) will be hosting an open reception of its latest exhibit, 20 Years at the Table, Oct. 11 from 5 – 7:30 p.m. The exhibit, currently open, showcases…
