San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

"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.

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), along with veterans discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," will be participating in the National Equality March on tomorrow in Washington D.C.

A new report based on a recent national survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that a clear majority of Americans favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal agreements with each other that would give them many of the same rights as married couples, a status commonly known as civil unions.

On Saturday, President Obama is scheduled to give the keynote address to the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner in Washington, D.C. More than sixty-five thousand LGBT patriots will be listening to what Obama has to say about repealing "don't ask, don't tell," the law that bars openly gay and lesbian service members from serving their country.