SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The California Senate today voted 27-12 to pass SB 2 – the Building Homes and Jobs Act – legislation authored by Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) that will create a permanent source of funding for affordable housing. SB 2 now moves on to the state Assembly for consideration. “On behalf of the thousands of…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and other expert witnesses will brief State Treasurer John Chiang and members of his Cannabis Banking Working group on how to provide banking services to California’s soon-to-be-legalized recreational cannabis industry in San Diego on Friday. Chiang, who created the 17-member panel late last year, has held a series of…
WASHINGTON — Clinical laboratories could significantly improve healthcare for the transgender community by using both sex and gender identity to make decisions about clinical testing, and by determining normal lab values for healthy transgender patients. A review published today in AACC’s Clinical Chemistry journal emphasizes these as critical steps on the road to eliminating the many…
MONTRÉAL — Canada Pride Montréal 2017 (Fierte Canada Montreal), today unveiled the programming for the event weeks before the launch of festivities. Over 11 days, festival goers and revelers will have an unprecedented choice of over 200 activities including DJ sets and the free large scale shows every night. “The activities we offer are really diverse!…
San Diego State University is hosting its 10th annual Pride Flag Raising Ceremony July 7 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, San Diego State University. The flag symbolizes the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities in the SDSU community. The ceremony gives the campus community an opportunity to…
A new report released today by the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) and OutRight Action International in collaboration with the Global Platform to Fast Track the Human Rights and HIV Responses with Gay and Bisexual Men argues for a global health and development approach that is inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and…
GENEVA, ADDIS ABABA —African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020. The western and central Africa catch-up plan aims to rapidly accelerate access to HIV treatment in…
Five big X’s. That’s what you’ve got on your calendar, running in a line right across the week you’re on vacation. Yep, five days away and you’re already planning on what to pack – so don’t forget a book… OUT IN JULY Your vacation will be happier with novels by Julie Garwood, Daniel Silva, Susan…
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Ebony Morgan has become the 15th transgender person to be killed in the U.S. this year. Morgan was shot multiple times in the early hours of Sunday morning in Virginia. Morgan was found alive in Lynchburg and transported to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Today, GLAAD called on the media…
