The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has released a new ad attacking Romney’s stance on gay rights. The HRC says the Republican presidential hopeful and his running mate, Paul Ryan, represent a “devastating leap backwards for LGBT Americans seeking full equality.” The ad features Romney’s previous appearance on Piers Morgan’s CNN chat show, where he said: “The…
THE NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Football Association (FA) – the governing body of professional soccer in The Netherlands – is running a TV commercial highlighting the lack of openly gay footballers. The ad, which has been shown on Dutch television shows a man in a closet playing soccer and then enjoying drinks with his team…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate mass spam texts that are taking aim at President Obama, marriage equality, and a number of other progressive issues. Recently, HRC supporters have received unsolicited anti-gay text messages such as: “Obama endorses the legality of same-sex marriage. Say…
BY WILL RODRIGUEZ-KENNEDY SAN DIEGO, Monday Oct. 31 – District 3 Councilmember Todd Gloria has questioned a claim made by Councilmember Carl DeMaio during today’s final mayoral debate with Congressman Bob Filner. When the subject turned to veterans support DeMaio stated, “I am proud to have led a coalition, in 2010, to change how we…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today announced a $100,000 gift from Brad Pitt to support the organization’s marriage efforts. Pitt has agreed to match contributions from HRC members and supporters up to $100,000 in order to direct resources to the marriage campaigns entering their final week in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state….
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (CNN) – Jefferson County residents in Washington state will cast their ballots this year for the leaders of the “Untied” States. According to the Peninsula Daily News, a typo on ballots that were sent to 22,596 voters caused federal candidates for office to be listed under the heading “President/Vice President of the…
BY STAMPP CORBIN In a complete illustration that the Republican Party comes before her community, Bonnie Dumanis has endorsed Carl DeMaio for mayor of San Diego. Dumanis knows that the LGBT community overwhelmingly supports Filner, but her allegiance is to her beloved Republican Party. The LGBT community be damned. We all thought Dumanis was smarter…
Further to investigative reporter Murray Waas‘ article published last week in the Boston Globe, highlighted on LGBTweekly.com, revealing his real stand on same-sex marriage and gay parenting videos have come to light showing Romney making those bigoted claims against LGBT parents. The first shows Romney speaking to conservative voters in South Carolina in 2005 and…
WASHINGTON – Following President Barack Obama’s call on Americans to support the freedom to marry when they vote on ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Freedom to Marry have issued statements praising the president. “President Obama continues to be a transformational leader for LGBT equality,” said Human Rights…
Transprogressive BY AUTUMN SANDEEN In a recent San Diego LGBT Weekly column, “What good is improved VA gender policy if it’s inaccessible?” I wrote about how I was pretty much the only transgender military veteran in the United States who was unable to take advantage of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA‘s) new policy for…
