SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride has announced a partnership with the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association and California Western School of Law’s Pride Law to help the LGBT community get in touch with local legal services. Pride is expanding services by establishing a new volunteer run Pride Legal Clinic to address the legal…
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.– Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend has just announced the addition of Leah LaBelle to its 2013 entertainment line-up. LaBelle’s record label and agency (CAA), reached out to Mariah Hanson (founder and producer of The Dinah) for a spot on the 2013 Dinah talent roster. Following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry,…
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW/CNN) — A new paint job on a house across from Westboro Baptist Church is catching some attention. A non-profit group called Planting Peace sponsored the project. The rainbow-colored painting of a home has been dubbed “The Equality House.” The group says it symbolizes equality, peace and change, now sporting the colors of…
SAN FRANCISCO — Self-described “anarchist skateboard punk” singer Michelle Shocked surprised and angered audience members on Sunday night after the alternative rocker went into a tirade against Proposition 8 at a San Francisco concert. “”When they stop Prop 8 and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilization, and…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced its endorsement of Annise Parker for re-election as mayor of Houston. As mayor of the country’s fourth-largest city, Parker has worked tirelessly and effectively to improve Houston’s economy and provide stellar living conditions for all Houstonians. HRC pointed to Forbes Magazine naming Houston number one on its…
http://youtu.be/zYV3DE8T6Io Up and coming Lesbian artist Anastasia Luna has been featured by Curve magazine and AfterEllen.com. She describes her video Tonight as, “My sexiest music video yet!” See what you think.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL/CNN) — Investigators are looking into a possible hate crime that happened around 10:30 Sunday night on the corner of 20th and D streets in Midtown. Two men, armed with a baseball bat, first yelled derogatory anti-gay slurs at a man in his 40s and then struck him in the knees with the…
SAN DIEGO — Environmental Health & Justice Campaign (EHJC), an organization that fights toxic pollution in low-income communities of color, has announced that it has endorsed Dwayne Crenshaw in the City of San Diego’s City Council race for District 4. EHJC focuses on pollution issues in the disadvantaged communities south of I-8 where the District…
In a move that suggests the Indian state is working toward greater acceptance of the LGBT community, Rituparno Ghosh, the director of Chitrangadahas won top honors at the state-sponsored National Film Awards, reports The Indian Express. The film, which took home the Special Jury Prize, concerns a choreographer (Ghosh) who is struggling with gender identity….
Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on the subject across the past decade. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed. That number has grown sharply in ABC News/Washington Post polls, from…
