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We Can Do It! Campaign Launches

The website Open Artist Movement has launched a new campaign titled We Can Do It! The photo campaign aims to build solidarity and personal strength through positive messaging. The goal is to bring to life modern iconic individuals, by depicting them as powerful and not victims in support of the global LGBT movement worldwide.   […]

VIDEO: Will Phillips Accepts GLAAD Award

I’ve written about 10 year old Will Phillips before…explaining that I’m not much for heroes, but this boy is a hero of mine. He refused to say the Pledge Of Allegiance in school until LGBT Americans have equal rights. He garnered national attention for that brave move and now GLAAD has bestowed an award on

Atlanta Eagle Employees Win

  A little more justice today as the employees of the Atlanta Eagle bar, who were arrested in September for supposedly "lewd dancing without a permit" (what century are we even living in??) have been declared NOT GUILTY. Read the story here…

ACLU Takes On Shameful Mississippi School

Reading about Constance McMillen, the young girl in Mississippi who asked to take her lesbian girlfriend to the prom, resulting in the school cancelling the event completely, I was left feeling defeated. Many recent events concerning LGBT civil rights have resulted in organization simply "pulling the plug". It was evident recently when the Catholic Church

NYT Session with Boies & Olson

David Boies and Ted Olson, attorneys in the CA Prop 8 case, sat down with Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, at the newspaper’s Manhattan headquarters last night to discuss the landmark case. The two were filled with optimism as well as reality, discussing their return either later this month or

Lesbian Request Results In Prom Cancellation

A prom is an event that most high school students look forward to, both for its excitement as well as its sense of passage. All that ended in a Mississippi school recently when a lesbian student asked to bring a girl to the dance, and to, god forbid, wear a tuxedo. Constance McMillan’s request to

Disney Program Comes To An End

The Give A Day Get A Disney Day volunteer program through the Disney Parks has come to an end. Gay Central Valley would like to thank all those who volunteered for our organization. Your help was generous and well needed and we hope that you consider volunteering in some way in the future, outside of

Holy Hook UP!

  You know, I don’t have a lot of trust in a lot of things anymore, but some dreams do still come true… Police have wiretaps implicating Angelo Balducci, a "Papal Gentleman" (boy, that terms going to get some use behind bars…) in a gay prostitution scandal. I know, I need a cigarette too… Seems

Male Sexual Harassment Claims Double

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jonathan Pilkington’s boss wouldn’t take no for an answer. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Ariz., Pilkington says his male supervisor groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times. "It was very embarrassing," Pilkington said. "I felt like I