A bunch of protesters out in West Seattle took over a nearby Target, equipped with a band and choreographed dance routines, to bring attention to the controversy surrounding Target’s $150,000 donation to an anti-gay, anti-worker gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota.

Here’s a little background. In January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled corporations could spend unlimited money in our elections. In July, Target made the controversial donation. As recently as last week, a quarter million people pledged to boycott Target. Ok, caught up.

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Activist, Air-Force veteran, and husband, Justin B. Terry-Smith has dedicated his life to educating and bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS.  Involved in many outreach programs and organizations like: Us Helping Us, Human Rights Campaign, Equality Maryland, The National Black Justice Coalition, etc.,  Justin has created “Justin’s HIV Journal,” which is airing on the upcoming LGBT network GLO TV. Justin boldly showcases his life on video for the world to see.  Inviting viewers to witness Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker handed down his ruling yesterday (August 4th) overturning California’s Proposition 8 ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage. Judge Walker ruled Prop 8 is “unconstitutional under both the due process and equal protection clauses.”

Judge Walker further concluded: Read the rest of this entry »

On July 16,^th Atlanta CEO DeFarra Gaymon (48), known as “Dean”, was fatally shot and killed by undercover detective Edward Esposito (29) at Branch Brook Park of Newark, NJ.  The victim’s family is outraged and demands answers from the Essex County authorities.

Earlier in the day, Detective Esposito had been patrolling the known cruising area in Branch Brook Park. According to Esposito, when he went back to the park to retrieve a pair of handcuffs he’d dropped in an earlier arrest, Gaymon allegedly approached him while pleasuring himself.  According to the detective, Read the rest of this entry »

ESPN recently re-aired the E:60 episode featuring the segment on the South Africa’s shameful exercise of corrective rape. In this heart-wrenching episode, show host Jeremy Schaap interviewed South African women soccer players about the heinous practice aimed to punish a lesbian and “correct” her sexuality. Many of South Africa’s women soccer players are openly gay despite the country’s lax attitude toward gay-fueled crimes and few legal protections afforded its victims.

These brave women fought back tears at times as they retold their personal corrective rape experiences as well as the stories of those who didn’t live to tell their own.

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ABC’s failure to respond to the public’s demands that Sherri Shepherd and D.L. Hughley’s erroneous comments made during The View on HIV/AIDS and African-American gay and bi-sexual men be corrected and an on-air apology be issued is really pissing us off, and we’re not the only ones.

GLAAD, in partnership with Read the rest of this entry »

Gayle King raised her voice loud and proud in support of same-sex marriage. This proclamation of support came during Friday’s airing of her radio show, The Gayle King Show, in response to the recent federal ruling in Boston declaring DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act) unconstitutional.

“In translation, they [the court] believe gay people should be able to be married. I do too,” King said. “In the world according to Gayle, I definitely do.” Read the rest of this entry »

One step at a time gets you anywhere you are going, I know.  But a few huge steps along the way always gets you there faster. July 8th marked a huge step for same-sex marriage.  In an enormous victory, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Section 3, a critical part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed by congress in 1996, is unconstitutional.

While this was not a ruling that legalizes gay marriage, it is a ruling that provides legally married same-sex couples Read the rest of this entry »

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