Target and Best Buy, both based in Minneapolis, have donated $250,000 to a political committee supporting a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor who is not a friend to the LGBT community. Full Story
As we weigh the field of candidates for the 76th Assembly District, we believe that Atkins is best positioned to represent our community in Sacramento.
Forty-four years ago, nine women were "Stonewalled" in San Diego. This is their shocking story of being dragged out of a bar, arrested and jailed, then humiliated in court. Let's not forget why we celebrate Pride, so that LGBT people today don't have to experience what these women did in 1966.
Like all Californians, the San Diego LGBT community obviously needs new Green jobs, clean air, and a new clean energy standard. But we also need to send a loud, proud and unequivocal message: Conservative Texas power trippers, don’t mess with our state or the LGBT community again!
Stephen Whitburn has built a grass-roots campaign and is running on an attractive platform that resurrects his open government ideas from his council race and includes a commitment to force the county government to finally meet its social service obligations to many overlooked communities.
Questioning during Elena Kagen’s senate confirmation hearing sheds light on a more important question: Why do Republicans remain silent when judicial activism comes from their own corner and conservative Supreme Court justices radically depart from precedent?
If that isn’t bad enough, the Republican Party of Texas has moved so far to the right that it has fallen off the flat Earth that it apparently still believes in.
“Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship. We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn’t work the same.”
Consider this. The LGBT community has enjoyed a state of adolescence for decades. It has been acceptable to gossip, ridicule, and back-stab our own. Aloofness and separateness have remained the norm. Why? Because no one cares anyway – so the question really becomes, “why not?”
Find out why markets will favor stocks and corporate bonds over government bonds and cash and why stocks in the industrial and technology sectors, as well as large cap multinationals, will be the primary beneficiaries.
If gay American bloggers want to actually help African gays, then maybe it's time they started listening to them, to what they say would help improve their situation and then act on it. Otherwise, as Ben Cohen puts it, it would be better for African gays if they just shut up.
A recent YouTube video shows 8 and 9-year-old girls dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies" in clothes more revealing than those of the superstar, herself. What are the little girls trying to sell?
My question for modern day blackface performers is: What’s so funny? As you paint your face black and wipe the black paint from your fingers, do you think about the years of segregated entertainment that black paint represents?
The current political posturing is abhorrent and unacceptable. And now we have the responsibility to remain acutely aware of the dangerous and obvious trend of contempt for the judicial branch of our government.
“As I speak to voters throughout the 4th District, it’s clear that they are disillusioned with our Do-Nothing Board of Supervisors. I hear over and over again that it’s time for leadership with fresh, bold ideas, not the tired political games of the last 20 years.”
A few days ago, one of the Victory Fund's endorsed candidates for Congress found the word "fag" spray-painted over a number of his campaign yard signs.
Please sign our letter to President Obama, asking him not to appeal the judge's ruling that DOMA is unconstitutional. Tell him you expect the Department of Justice to stand with us in support of equality for LGBT Americans.
But if we remain silent, these well-funded extremists will be able to mislead the public about Carly Fiorina's positions on some of the most important issues we face. Remember how they helped George W. Bush campaign as a "Compassionate Conservative" in 2000?
The San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, thanks to generous supporters, updates the LGBT community on the organizations and causes that recently received close to $500,000.
The president tackles two issues: the success of the auto industry restructuring and the failure of Republican leadership in the Senate of voting on a bill helping Main Street.
Featured Commentary Story