WASHINGTON – The Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board is looking into whether the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) violated state law by refusing to disclose the identities of its donors during its efforts to oust state Supreme Court justices in 2010 and 2012. NOM launched an aggressive campaign to interfere with the state’s…
Despite besmirching the Shijonawate Fire Department reputation, two young Japanese firefighters, both 20, were suspended for six months after it was discovered they appeared in adult films, reports the TokyoReporter.com. According to the story, the pair were approached by an adult video scout on a beach in the Suma Ward of Kobe. After being complimented…
Audiobooks are still a fairly rare commodity when it comes to gay literature. Unlike reading your fantasy gay novel on the beach or lying in bed on a lazy Sunday afternoon, audiobooks can bring those characters you fantasize about to life in new and exciting ways. And that’s just so with Jordan L. Hawk’s“Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin).”…
AIDS Walk has changed its grant process, providing local HIV/AIDS service organizations the opportunity to earn double matching grants for this year’s event! Thanks to dedicated and generous community support, AIDS Walk has raised awareness and funds for more than two decades, and the event has evolved with the epidemic. AIDS Walk and the San…
Sean Sasser, AIDS activist and MTV star, has died at age 44. Queerty.com reports, Sasser entered the American consciousness as Pedro Zamora’s boyfriend on MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco, back in the early 1990s. Zamora, who was HIV positive, passed away not long after the show ended, due to complications of the disease —…
By Jeremy Wilson Union Bank, N.A. Vice President and Branch Manager UB PROUD San Diego Co-Chair Buying a home may be the biggest investment you’ll make in your lifetime. The process can be exciting and for many, it can also be intimidating. There are additional factors for same-sex couples to consider that may make the process…
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man in the Hollywood reboot of the iconic Marvel comic, discussed a suggestion – sacrilege some would argue – with the producers of The Amazing Spider-Man series. “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ . And I was like, ‘What if MJ…
WASHINGTON, — Thursday, Sept. 12, the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Technology Partnership will host their inaugural fall policy forum featuring keynote speaker Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications Commission, followed by two panels of community and policy experts who will discuss The Future of Broadband, Security and Privacy for LGBT Communities. From the future of broadband to security,…
According to a Princeton Review survey that asked 126,000 students at 378 top colleges to rate their schools on dozens of topics and report on their experiences at them, the college which topped the list of most LGBT-friendly colleges was Boston’s Emerson College. However, the school that earned the No. 1 spot on the most…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, is unveiling a T-shirt design in celebration of Equality Rocks, a public engagement campaign featuring prominent musicians – both American and international – who support LGBT equality. By sparking conversations about the power of love, fairness and equality, the campaign aims to drum up support for marriage equality and bring…
