Scene Out BY KIM RESCATE AND ANA PINES We drove up to Los Angeles for the New Beverly Cinema’s 5th annual All-Night Horror Show. We didn’t know what to expect. We managed to make it through virtually all of the six movies. There were breaks in between and prior to the features; trailers of other…
If there are any lingering doubts in the minds of LGBT voters as to where Mitt Romney really stands on LGBT issues the following article by Murray Waas, published in The Boston Globe, should help clear that up. In a particularly nasty move, Romney as governor of Massachusetts rejected the state Registry of Vital Records…
Ellen DeGeneres’ career in comedy was celebrated at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Oct. 22. The 54-year-old comedian and daytime talk show host was honored as the 15th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award given to those who’ve made an impact on American society with their…
http://youtu.be/9I4Ny1RrXSk WASHINGTON – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military personnel, today announced the selection of transgender Army veteran Allyson Robinson to lead the newly combined organization. The organizations will formally merge this weekend. A graduate of West Point, Robinson commanded Patriot missile units in Europe and the…
Equality California and its Board of Directors announced today that John O’Connor, a seasoned nonprofit executive with deep ties in the LGBT community, will serve as the new executive director of Equality California and Equality California Institute. O’Connor will begin his tenure Dec. 3. “I am honored to lead Equality California forward as the statewide…
BY CASEY PICK, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans In response to the many comments about the Log Cabin Republicans‘ qualified endorsement of Mitt Romney, Casey Pick, programs director and attorney for Log Cabin Republicans replies with the following commentary: I knew what we were in for when Log Cabin Republicans made the…
BY NED FLAHERTY, project manager for Marriage Equality USA. Following The Log Cabin Republicans’ endorsement of Mitt Romney, Ned Flaherty, project manager for Marriage Equality USA, analyses how this group have now abandoned gay rights entirely. Flaherty created the Election 2012 project, which was developed to show 12 major ways in which LGBTIQ people still…
Congressman Barney Frank today released a statement in response to the announcement by the Log Cabin Republicans that they are endorsing Mitt Romney to be President of the United States. The endorsement was announced only one day after the release of an essay by Congressman Frank, that has been published in full on LGBTweekly.com, in…
BY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK October 22, 2012 The upcoming elections will be the most important in our history from the standpoint of legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. In decades, there has not been a sharper distinction between the two parties on any issue than there is today on LGBT legal equality….
(CNN) – Attorneys releasing confidential Boy Scouts files on alleged child molestation are calling upon Congress to audit whether the group’s youth protections are working. The effort to seek a congressional inquiry came Thursday as the attorneys released more than 20,000 Boy Scout documents identifying more than 1,000 leaders and volunteers banned from the group…
