The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced Wednesday that its president, Neil Giuliano, will step down later this year to pursue “personal interests” and complete a book about his personal and professional life. Giuliano has been president of GLAAD for 3-1/2 years. Prior to his work with GLAAD, Giuliano was mayor of Tempe, Ariz., [...]
On Tuesday nonprofit organization GetToKnowUsFirst.org rolled out a series of commercials featuring gay and lesbian families, with the message “Marriage promotes families. Support marriage equality.” The commercials, which were filmed after California’s passage of Proposition 8, were scheduled to air in 42 of the state’s 58 counties during coverage of the Presidential Inauguration. A Los [...]
Openly gay Rev. Gene Robinson has been asked by Obama’s Inaugural Committee to deliver the invocation at the inauguration’s opening ceremony, which is being held Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial. Robinson, whose endorsement of Obama before the New Hampshire primary was considered a big coup for the campaign, has been critical of the controversial selection [...]
Rudolf Brazda, a 95-year-old German citizen and the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, has definitively broken his silence on his experience at the Buchenwald camp. In a new interview in the French gay magazine Têtu, Brazda speaks in detail for the first time since he made provisional remarks at the June inauguration of [...]
Monday, December 1, marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, and on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration, AIDS educators and health professionals the world over are looking forward to a new direction and renewed dedication in fighting the world epidemic
More than 429 Florida Leaders Have Already Endorsed Amendment 2 See Names and Pictures including Governor Charlie Crist and Attorney General Bill McCollum. Site “Yes2Marriage.org: http://www.yes2marriage.org/about-us/endorsements/
Aetna has become the first health benefits company in the U.S. to link its online provider directory – DocFind- to the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s online database of more than 1,200 health care providers. The database includes primary care providers, specialists, therapists, and dentists who welcome LGBT patients. In addition, Aetna has awarded GLMA [...]
I heard this discussed on the radio last night. I know it’s not a story about gays, but it’s so important to everyone and gays could do a lot to save the horses by calling their Senators and Reps in Congress telling them to put an end to the rounding up and euthanasia. The BLM [...]
Openly gay former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell will host a live, hour-long special on NBC on Nov. 26 called Rosie’s Variety Show, it was announced in The Hollywood Reporter today. The show — a 2009 version of classic variety shows like The Carol Burnett Show or The Ed Sullivan Show — will feature celebrity [...]
A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years ago was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison. Marjorie Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2001 mauling death of Dianne Whipple, but a judge later reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter [...]