WASHINGTON – Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) legislation to extend benefits to same-sex military couples cleared a major legislative hurdle yesterday after it passed the Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee on a bipartisan voice vote. The Charlie Morgan Military Spouses Equal Treatment Act would update and expand federal benefits for legally married, same-sex veteran couples and help put…
Aug. 1, queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade,…
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – It is family fun for all at this not to be missed festival! This will be a diverse cultural celebration of LGBT community, their families and friends accompanied by live entertainment, dancing, art, food, a wine and beer garden, children’s garden and much more. South Bay Pride Art & Musical Festival…
Oregon United for Marriage announced today that they have the petitions in hand and are ready to move forward with the “Oregon Says I Do” campaign to collect the 116,284 signatures necessary to put on the ballot in November 2014 a measure that would strike Ballot Measure 36 and replace it with pro-marriage equality language….
SAN DIEGO, – The City of San Diego will premiere CicloSDias Aug. 11 to give the community a break from the stress of car traffic, promote local business and establish San Diego as a commuter-friendly city with open streets celebrations. “This free event opens streets for all people to enjoy and explore San Diego as never…
It’s as if the 1960s has crash landed smack in the middle of America 2013. Marches for racial equality. Fights for civil rights. Soldiers deployed to small, far-away lands. Believe it or not, today’s social challenges are actually born of decades of progress. They are rooted in seeds planted more than 50 years ago by…
WASHINGTON – The United States entered into a settlement agreement with the Arcadia Unified School District in Arcadia, Calif., to resolve an investigation into allegations of discrimination against a transgender student based on the student’s sex. Under the agreement, approved by the district’s school board unanimously last night, the school district will take a number…
LA JOLLA, Calif. — La Jolla Symphony Chorus has announced that it will be holding open auditions for all voice parts for the 2013-2014 performance year. The season, titled Life, will mark the 40th anniversary of David Chase as Choral Director of La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Choral highlights of the season include: Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms,…
COMMENTARY: Conversations with Nicole BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ First, I most sincerely urge all of you to get tested for cancer, diabetes etc. All my life I’ve been one who has avoided doctors checkups and tests and so it should be no surprise that this is the third time that I have come within minutes…
Four teenagers have been arrested in New York Four for an alleged anti-gay hate crime. They have been accused of physically attacking two men while shouting anti-gay epithets in the early hours of July 21 outside a train station in Babylon, N.Y. The Long Island Press reports that the alleged attackers punched, kicked and shoved…
