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Bayard Rustin was convicted for having sex with a man. Lawmakers want to finally address it.
Advocates in California want an official pardon as “an affirmation of what Rustin knew all along: that he was not a criminal for being gay.”
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This groundbreaking trans actress will soon premier in an award-winning Broadway musical
MJ Rodriguez from “Pose” is about to return to the stage, and she’s got some famous gay actors joining her.
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College to pay Dustin Lance Black $26,000 for rescinded invite
PASADENA, Calif. — A California community college has agreed to pay Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black $26,000 not to sue after the school rescinded an invitation to speak at commencement.
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College rescinds commencement invite to Dustin Lance Black over sex photos
PASADENA, Calif. — Pasadena City College has rescinded an invitation to Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor and LGBT rights activist Dustin Lance Black to speak at its commencement ceremony because they fear sexually explicit photos of Black that surfaced on the internet in 2009 would tarnish the school’s reputation.
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Rose Parade hosts its first same-sex wedding atop giant wedding cake float
PASADENA, Calif. — Standing atop a giant wedding cake float, Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair exchanged vows New Year’s Day in the first same-sex marriage during the Tournament of Roses Parade.
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Rose Parade will go on with gay wedding, despite San Diego woman’s boycott
PASADENA, Calif. — A San Diego woman calling for a boycott of the annual New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, because two Los Angeles men will be married atop a float themed “Love is the Best Protection.”
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LGBT group finds acceptance at evangelical college
PASADENA, Calif. — Nick Palacios struggled to get his conservative Pentecostal parents to accept him as a gay evangelical Christian for nearly a decade before his family found a common ground through faith. Now, as an openly gay seminarian, the 29-year-old hopes to carve out a similar acceptance for other gays in the broader evangelical […]