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Still time to get your business/org into the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade

Don’t miss out on getting your business or organization in the 2014 Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade! Parade entries: Marching Unit $55; Motorcycles $5 per bike; Animal Unit $55; Decorated Vehicle / Float $75. Parade entries MUST provide a brief description of your parade entry for announcement at the grand stand area. The information you provide […]

A Quick Crash Course on the “Grow a Pair” Ordeal, from Gay Porterville

     As many of you already know, Porterville has faced quite the controversy over the past couple of weeks. On Tuesday, May 6, Councilwoman Virginia Gurrola presented an item to the council—a Safe Zone program to be implemented into the community by local students from the Burton School District. Students would be able to

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The Normal Heart – premieres Sunday on HBO

Sunday night (9pm), HBO presents a new TV version of “The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer’s 1985 play about the early years of the AIDS crisis. Kramer himself wrote the screenplay adaptation, which stars Mark Ruffalo and Julia Roberts. Almost 30 years later, the drama is both presented and viewed differently. If you miss it, you

Fresno Rainbow Pride – All the details

We have a goal to make Fresno Rainbow Pride accessible to everyone by keeping our costs down for our nonprofit service providers and smal lbusinesses, and by being able to offer such an affordable $5 admission cost to the Festival. A simple donation to Fresno Rainbow Pride makes you a Pride Partner. No obligations. No Time committments. No labor involved. We have been

Introducing The USP President’s Award at Fresno State

Introducing The USP President’s Award at Fresno StateThe Bulldog Pride Fund has launched a fundraising campaign to raise $50,000 to endow a new scholarship – the USP President’s Award – that will provide $2,000 annually to the student elected as President of United Student Pride, a LGBTQand allies student organization at Fresno State. “The USP

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What My Transgender Child Taught Me About Motherhood

Across the country, mothers like me wait with bated breath to see what tokens of affection our partners and children endow us on Mother’s Day. When Mother’s Day arrives, we’ll kiss our spouses for their gifts of chocolate, flowers, and jewelry. We’ll thank our children for their construction paper cutout hearts and crayon-scribled love notes.

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Is It Time to Pull the Plug on ENDA?

With thanks, we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the introduction of Bella Abzug’s extraordinary comprehensive gay civil rights bill to Congress, known as the Equality Act of 1974, and we call all who are silent, to speak out for the demise of its flawed inadequate substitute, The Employment Non Discrimination Act. ” 1974 – On

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Michael Sam Drafted, Kisses Boyfriend on National TV

(OK, so we’re a little late with the story/video, but in our defense, the only time ESPN is on is for the food eating competitions)Video here This is nothing short of amazing – Sam gets picked in the draft, and then the whole world sees an NFL player kiss his boyfriend on TV Queerty reports:

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Gays May Be Changing Marriage, But It’s Changing Them Too

As recently as 2011, I was still in the habit of telling people that I was against gay marriage. In my mega-liberal home state of Massachusetts, it felt like a lark to be the lesbian in favor of civil unions. “It’s not that I think we should give marriage back, now that we have it