Page 96
-
New York state flag to fly high above San Francisco’s famed Castro neighborhood
In an act of appreciation and in solidarity with the greater LGBTQ community of the Empire State, when New York’s first same-sex marriages commence this Sunday, the New York state flag will fly above San Francisco’s famed Castro neighborhood.
-
Estimated 250 active military, veterans march in San Diego gay pride parade
An estimated 250 active-duty service members and veterans on Saturday marched Saturday in San Diego’s gay pride parade, just one day after a federal appeals court reinstated “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but with a provision that prohibits the military from investigating or penalizing anyone who is openly gay.
-
Conservative group seeks voter referendum to overturn California’s LGBT history law
A California-based conservative group on Friday filed documents seeking to place a voter referendum on the 2012 ballot to overturn a new state law that would require public schools to include the historical contributions of LGBT Americans in history lessons and classroom materials.
-
California governor signs landmark bill that would require teaching of LGBT history
California’s Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed into law landmark legislation that would require the historical contributions of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans to be included in history lessons and classroom textbooks.
-
Fox News: CA bill that would require teaching of LGBT history is ‘propaganda’
LGBT watchdog group “Equality Matters” is taking Fox News to task for maligning the facts relating to California’s Fair Education Act, a landmark bill that would require the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.
-
Mystery surrounds murder of gay immigrant in San Francisco
On Friday, June 10, San Francisco firefighters, responding to a reported brush fire incident in Buena Vista Park in the city’s famed Haight district, made the grisly discovery of a gay immigrant’s corpse, burned beyond recognition in an nearby dumpster.
-
Mother of bullied gay teen files wrongful death lawsuit against Calif. school
Just days after federal investigators concluded that a California middle school failed to “adequately investigate” the bullying of a gay teen who killed himself after enduring years of anti-gay harassment, the boy’s mother on Tuesday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school district.
-
California Assembly approves landmark bill that would require teaching of LGBT history
The California state Assembly on Tuesday approved landmark legislation that would require the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.
-
Trial gets underway of California teen charged with killing gay classmate
Opening arguments are scheduled to get underway Tuesday in the trial of Brandon McInerney, charged with the execution style killing of a gay classmate in 2008.
-
Federal investigators: Calif. school’s response to anti-gay bullying ‘inadequate’
Federal investigators on Friday concluded that the Tehachapi, Calif., Unified School District failed to “adequately investigate or respond appropriately to the bullying of a gay, 13-year-old middle school student who hung himself in September due to the harassment.”