San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

LGBT organizations and non-profit coalitions across California are busy preparing to repeal Proposition 8 in next year’s election after a devastating and narrow defeat in November of 2008.

Lambda Legal argued before the New York State Court of Appeals last week on behalf of two married same-sex couples after the Alliance Defense Fund, an antigay legal group, objected to county and state officials acting in compliance with long-standing
New York law by recognizing out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.

A joint effort of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations, funders, and allied partners and hosted by the Equality California Institute, Let California Ring will invest more than $15 million over the next three years to fund the campaign.

"United We Can Stop HIV and Prevent AIDS. Unidos Podemos Detener el VIH y Prevenir el SIDA." That is the message for the seventh annual National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, which our nation observes today, October 15.

Days before the United States Senate is set to vote on federal legislation to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from hate violence, a shocking new security camera video was released this morning showing the brutality of hate violence.

The effort to repeal the discriminatory military policy “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will be at the forefront of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s 13th annual Miami Recognition Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

As tens of thousands of advocates, activists and allies begin arriving in Washington for this weekend’s National Equality March, there are an increasing number of calls for elected leaders to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender binational families.

On Saturday October 10, President Barack Obama spoke at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) 13th Annual Dinner, calling for an end to discrimination within the workplace and promising a full repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

Ben Cartwright reflects on SDSU's supportive environment for the LGBTQ community, a change from when he started at the university in 1998.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the conference report on Wednesday for the FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill by a vote of 281 to 146, bringing critical hate crimes protections closer to becoming law than ever before.