Focus On The Rainbow

• Focus On The Rainbow Daily News Brief
  TEEN/ACLU SUES MS SCHOOL TO HAVE PROM A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled rather than let the couple attend. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in [...]
• NIGHTLINE Looks At Anti-Gay Uganda And The “Kill Gays Bill”
  read the full article from ABC News and NIGHTLINE Anti-Homosexual Bill Creates Global Uproar
• Epstein And Schwimer Glamour Photography Collection Auction
  Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer are the owners of the largest, privately held collection of glamour photography. Michael and Scott are opening their vaults for the first time to sell their photographic and fine art masterpieces. A portion of the proceeds will benefit many of the charitable organizations they passionately support, primarily the Los […]
• Focus On The Rainbow Daily News Brief
  LGBT CENTER FACING FINANCIAL HARD TIMES Eight years after opening with great fanfare, San Francisco’s city-subsidized, $12.3 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is on the verge of foreclosure – and is asking the cash-strapped city for a $1 million line of credit to help bail it out. And from the looks of things, the [. […]
• “The Sensei” A Martial Arts Movie Which Teaches Tolerance
    “The Sensei” is a labor of love for Diana Lee Inosanto, who spent seven years working on the project. She said the murder of Matthew Shepard and her cousin’s coming out had a strong impact and inspired her to write her screenplay. “I kept looking at a storyline about a straight couple dealing with the whole [...]
• Record Producer And Artist Loren Jamal On Gay Agenda
  Out record producer and artist Loren Jamal was James Hipps’ guest on the popular BlogTalkRadio program Gay Agenda this evening. I joined James to talk to this talented young man who writes and records music which one can actually understand the lyrics. What a pleasant surprsie for this old boomer. It was a fun show and a [...]
• Focus On The Rainbow Daily News Brief
  SUPPORT IN COLORADO FOR LESBIAN PARENTS DENIED PLACEMENT OF CHILD IN SCHOOL Boulder’s GLBT community is rallying around a lesbian couple told by a Catholic school that they can’t re-enroll their preschooler next year because of their relationship. Aicila Lewis, executive director of Boulder Pride, said her organization is investigating the situa […]
• Focus On The Rainbow Daliy News Brief
  RIDGEFIELD’S OWN HARVEY FIERSTEIN ON TOUR WITH “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy GAY COUPLES SEEK OUT SURROGATES IN INDIA For gay US businessman Brad Fister, experiencing the joy of fatherhood meant flying half way around the world to India where he first held his baby daughter, […]
• “I Am Gay” Roy Ashburn Admits On California Radio Talk Show
  Roy Ashburn, the conservative California state senator who has a record of voting against gay rights and issues admitted Monday on radio station KERN (video/audio clip here) that he is gay. Apparently one of the “best kept open secrets” in California which many in California political circles, state and local media and even members of [...]
• The Association Of Flight Attendants Supports Repeal Of DADT
  The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) International President Patricia Friend issued the following statement supporting the Military Readiness Enhancement Act that was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The bills, H.R. 1283 and S. 3065, would repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell […]