On Friday September 5, 2008 at Midnight, Protect and Defend will host, "Ready, willing & able; Fire, Police & military personnel charity auction" for the GLBT Community. The show is being hosted at Chippendales Theatre located at the Rio Hotel, 3700 Flamingo Road, in Las Vegas.
Life is imitating art now that David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed lothario on Showtime’s Californication, has voluntarily entered a sex addiction rehab, his rep confirmed Thursday. Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Tea Leoni since 1997 and they have two children together. Recently Duchovny has garnered critical acclaim for portraying the bad boy, sex-obsessed author Hank Moody in Californication, the second season of which premieres Sept. 28.
Major corporations are increasingly saying that discrimination based on sexual orientation will not be tolerated in the workplace. According to a new report out from LGBT civil rights organization Equality Forum, 471 (94.2 percent) of the 2008 list of Fortune 500 companies voluntarily include sexual orientation in their employment nondiscrimination policies. The latest results suggest a marked increase in the number of companies embracing sexual orientation nondiscrimination policies since Equality Forum began contacting Fortune 500 companies five years ago.
More than half of California’s voters will say no to Proposition 8, the state's proposed ban on same-sex marriage, according to a poll conducted by the Public Policy of California, the results of which were released Wednesday. A promising trend indicates that there’s a narrowing gap between supporters of gay marriage and its opponents, whose support to back the proposition to ban equal marriage rights is beginning to wane.
Addressing the democratic convention last night, former president Bill Clinton declared that democratic presidential nominee, 'Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world.' Ending weeks of speculation about a rift between the former president and the Illinois senator, Clinton not only urged his wife’s supporters to get behind Obama, but also lavishly praised and enthusiastically endorsed Obama in what was one of the most rousing speeches given at the Democratic National Convention thus far.
As Gustav barrels towards the Gulf Coast, the organizers of New Orleans' Southern Decadence gay celebration are watching its every move. Three years ago, the festival was cancelled when Hurricane Katrina hit the city full-force, resulting in one of the nation’s most devastating natural disasters. Although Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has already declared a state of emergency to prepare for a possible Gustav hit, so far Southern Decadence organizers say the celebration is still on track.
Fallen starlet Lindsay Lohan’s oft-rumored lesbian lover DJ Samantha Ronson is planning to pen a tell-all and Lohan’s father Michael Lohan is fuming about it, according to PerezHilton.com. Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have been virtually inseparable since the beginning of the year, fueling rumors that they’re engaged in a full-on lesbian love affair.
As an African-American and a lesbian, 31-year-old Lapriss Gilbert says she is used to experiencing discrimination on a daily basis. On Monday, however, she found herself the target of hate from an entirely unexpected direction. While Gilbert was visiting a federal building in Van Nuys, California, she was forcibly ejected by a security guard because he found her apparel offensive. Gilbert was wearing a t-shirt promoting the website Lesbian.com.
45.000 participants and 450.000 in the audience at this year’s Pride Parade. Despite rain and chilly weather, the streets of Stockholm were filled with music, dancing and cheering when the parade went through the city on Saturday.
Life is imitating art now that David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed lothario on Showtime’s Californication, has voluntarily entered a sex addiction rehab, his rep confirmed Thursday. Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Tea Leoni since 1997 and they have two children together. Recently Duchovny has garnered critical acclaim for portraying the bad boy, sex-obsessed author Hank Moody in Californication, the second season of which premieres Sept. 28.
The world watched with awe as out gay diver Matthew Mitcham brought home the gold medal for Australia on the 10-meter platform this past weekend. In an interview found on YouTube.com, a gracious Mitcham thanks his mom, as well as his long-time partner, Lachlan. However, despite intensive coverage by NBC of other Olympic athletes' families, NBC did not include any mention of Mitcham's partner in the network's coverage of his gold medal win.
The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding an apology from a Virginia high school for punishing a student who wore a lesbian t-shirt to class. I.C. Norcom High School officials threatened the 17-year-old senior with suspension for wearing a shirt featuring an image of two overlapping female gender symbols.
Latin superstar Ricky Martin is the proud father of twin boys via a surrogate mother, his representatives announced on Wednesday. The babies were reportedly born several weeks ago to a gestational surrogate contracted by the 36 year-old singer. Martin will spend the remaining part of the year spending time with the twins out of the public spotlight.
Former President Bill Clinton flew from Africa to Mexico City overnight to deliver what has been described as a rousing address at the largest ever world AIDS conference to be held in a developing country. In the speech Clinton warned of the the impending global HIV crisis and ddressed the effect that rising oil and food prices along with the current mortgage crisis further complicated the lives of people with HIV.
