A 58-year-old man is accused of shouting homophobic and racial slurs during an attack on a group of Latino men leaving a gay nightclub in Portland, Oregon. The men passed Robert Oden after leaving CC Slaughters at approximately 2am on Saturday as he was sitting in an alcove of a nearby building. He allegedly punched three of the(…)
LGBT people, especially transgender people, could be subjected to discrimination, harassment, and identity theft if careful government controls are not placed on rapidly developing and widely used facial recognition technology, according to the group LGBT Tech. The Staunton, Va.-based group has joined six other LGBT organizations in signing on to a June 3, 2019 letter(…)
The D.C.-based Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce announced on Aug. 2 that it’s changing its name and rebranding its image for the second time in its 28-year history. Its new name will be the Equality Chamber of Commerce DC Metro Area (ECCDC). “Originally founded as the Potomac Executive Network (PEN), the Chamber(…)
When: Wednesday August 28thTime: 12:30 pm – 3 pmWhere: The Marin Yacht Club, 24 Summit AveSan Rafael, CA 94901 Come enjoy a wonderful buffet lunch and as always the cash bar will be there for your enjoyment too! The price remains the same – $25 We want to extend our thanks to BUDWING for generously sponsoring(…)
It is common to hear queer origin stories: without representation, we wither and die. Mythos, birth, coming into being—these are all invaluable totems of being truly alive for those forced into the margins. Coming out stories are radical and necessary, especially in the current political landscape, for they make space for others to find their(…)
Andrei Vaganov and Evgeny Erofeyev have been raising their two sons, now 12 and 14, for nearly a decade. The children were adopted by Vaganov shortly before he and Erofeyev were married in Denmark. The couple didn’t face any problems until the youngest son, Yuri, was hospitalised due to a stomach ache and doctors realised he(…)
LGBTI people in four Caribbean countries over the last year have filed lawsuits against their nations’ colonial-era sodomy laws. Javin Johnson and Sean Macleish on July 26 filed a lawsuit against two laws in St. Vincent and the Grenadines that criminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations. Daryl Phillip, founder of Minority Rights Dominica, and Maurice Tomlinson,(…)
A bill moving through the California Legislature could make PrEP available over the counter, Capital Public Radio reports. Advocates and patients say some people who need PrEP don’t know it exists or are unsure about how to talk to their doctors about it. Many physicians aren’t educated on what PrEP is or when to prescribe it,(…)
Nine lost stories by acclaimed French author Marcel Proust will be published this fall. According to the Guardian, the stories were first penned in the 1890s when Proust was in his ’20s. The stories, which delved into his homosexuality, were meant to be included in his first book “Plaisirs et les jours (Pleasures and Days),” a(…)
Technology companies are often portrayed as being progressive businesses, but their political spending suggests otherwise. Activist group Zero for Zeros analyzed political contributions made by the highest-scoring companies on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, a benchmarking tool that focuses on measuring corporate policies and practices for LGBTQ employees. It found that while many companies talk a(…)
